| | | | | really can taste the difference. |
| Three Basic Types | | | | New Flavored Rums |
| Light brown rum has a much less distinctive Smokey | | | | There are newer flavored rums that have began to |
| molasses taste and is best used for mixing in fruit | | | | appear on the market, that are midrange in price and |
| drinks such as daiquiris. Light brown rum is what you | | | | many people are fast developing a taste for. Captain |
| would use in drinks such “rum and coke” or | | | | Morgans Spiced Rum is one of the most popular and |
| the “Cuba Libre”. Darker rums such as | | | | a lot of people actually prefer it over some of the |
| “Meyers” dark rum are the best rums to | | | | more expensive rums such as Bacardi and Meyers. |
| serve straight over ice but they too can be mixed | | | | Take the Taste Test |
| with coke. | | | | If you want to familiarize yourself with how all of the |
| Taste the Difference | | | | most popular rums stack up against one another |
| Unlike other liquors, such as vodka, the taste | | | | tastewise, you don't have to run out and by bottles |
| differences between cheap and more expensive | | | | of them all. Simply stop in at your local watering hole |
| rums is quite noticeable. However; when it comes to | | | | and ask the bartender on duty if you can have a |
| light rum that is to be used in slushy mixed drinks | | | | small sip of their rums in stock in a small shot glass |
| you can get by with a cheaper rum if you choose. | | | | and he or she will be glad to oblige you. |
| However; when it comes to the darker rums you | | | | |