It finally happened: Single Cask Rum now runs its own bar – Welcome to the Jungle! As you may have guessed, the focus is on Rum (what else!?), as we host private Rum tasting sessions and cocktail evenings with Tiki-stlye drinks. While we plan to announce a few events in the future as well, the…

I’ve always had a weakness for windmills. There’s just something cool and aesthetic about them. In fact, we are building them for a living, it is just that we call them turbines these days, you know!? Anyway, Zuidam is a Dutch distillery that’s quite familiar to us, even though it is basically for their Genever…

2022 has been an incredibly tumultuous year for us and, for the first time in over five years (!), we’ve had to take not one, but two breaks from blogging. Instead of rambling about the reasons for it, giving you the “Best Rums of the Year” or reviewing the year of Rum (which can be…

We’ve already had a session with a bunch of 2004 Diamonds but those Rums seem to amass faster than the Roadrunner runs. Spoiler: Fortunately, they seem to be getting a lot better with time! Rum Artesanal Diamond (VSG) 2004 16YO (58,2%): This is already the second Rum Rum Artesanal has bottled from this batch. Nose:…

Dear reader and fellow Rum connoisseur, Single Cask Rum is now a 5YO – still full proof, unadulterated and at best a small batch! Some might say we are getting more mature, but come on, what are the notable five year old Rums out there!? I bet you cannot name many. It just doesn’t seem…

As always, the usual disclaimer: This is not a Rum of the Year list. It is simply only a list featuring our favorite Rums that we have reviewed in the year 2021. There have been several other amazing Rums which may very well have made the list but we either didn’t taste them (yet) or…

Once again, let’s add a short disclaimer: We do not like these best-of lists for several reasons. Furthermore, note first and foremost that this list only contains the Rums we have reviewed on this page in this year. There have been several other amazing Rums which may very well have made the list but we…

When we’ve done Caroni 1989, I’ve told you that there aren’t many great rums from my year of birth. This batch of Port Mourant is arguably the best though and we were very fortunate to finally get a rum at full cask strength. With these Duncan Taylors, I am always having my doubts… I’d say…

When we’ve introduced scoring on this blog, one of our goals was to come up with rankings regarding distilleries and bottlers. When I was working on these numerical rankings, I quickly came to realize two things, which I didn’t think about beforehand. Firstly, when going by these two categories, the sample sizes for many bottlers…

Everyone’s doing best of lists at the end of the year, which is fine. Personally, I don’t think it serves any purpose and because of that we’ve never done it but since we’ve introduced scores exactly one year ago we could just as well list all of my favorites. They are grouped into recent bottlings,…