Old Pascas is a rum owned by German company Borco International. It is a blend of Jamaican and Barbados rums. The producer in Barbados is The West Indies Rum Distillery Ltd, established in 1893 by two brothers from Germany. It was meant to produce cheap rum to German market. It is…
Cachaça is a national spirit of Brazil and Cachaça 51 is one of Brazil’s most common cachaça brands. Like all cachaça, it is distilled from fermented raw sugarcane juice. So it’s not a rum, which is normally produced from sugar production by-products such as molasses. Though rhum agricole is also made…
Angostura comes from Trinidad & Tobago and it is best known for their bitters. These were invented by german doctor of medicine, Johan Sieger, in 1824. Rum production began in 1947 and nowadays they have a great selection of different rums. The company has distilleries nowadays also in the USA; Kanada,…
Brugal is produced in the Dominican Republic by Brugal & Co. The company was founded in the late 1800s by the Spanish Don Andrés Brugal Montaner. The first aged rum was created in 1920 and it was the first of its kind in the whole country. Brugal Añejo was invented in…
Caribba is bottled by Estonian company Liviko, the rum is produced somewhere in Caribbean islands. Due to Liviko’s homepage it is Jamaican rum. Caribba is very cheap rum and on sale everywhere in Estonia. With Bacardi and Captain Morgan it is sold even in all small village stores. Compared to those…
Angostura comes from Trinidad, small Caribbean island. It was established by Johan Sieger, doctor of medicine. He was working as surgeon on Simon Bolivar’s army in Venezuela. Sieger wanted to create new product from botanicals, to help his patients appetite and digestion. At 1824 was born the Aromatic Bitters and when…
New Grove comes from Mauritius, an island from east-coast of Africa. It’s a product of Terra Group, family owned company established at 1838 by French Dr Pierre Charles François Harel. New Grove is the biggest rum producer in Mauritius and they have over 6.000 hectares of sugarcane. The company produce sugar…
Old Captain Rum is made by Dutch company Boomsma Distillery. It’s blended from different rums around Caribbian distilleries. “Well matured” might be something between 1 to 3 years. Colour of the rum is golden, so not too much E150a is used. Bottled on 70cl with 37.50% volume, price was 11.90€ at…
Havana Club is the biggest rum producer in Cuba and one of the best known rum brandies in the world. It was established at 1934 by Arechabala family. During the Cuba revolution years the distillery was nationalized and the owners escaped to USA or Europe, or was thrown to prison.Nowadays it…
Bacardi is the biggest family owned alcohol company on the world. It was established at 1982 by Don Facundo Bacardi Masso, who bought a distillery from Santiago de Cuba. Nowadays the production is at Puerto Rico, maturation and bottling in Florida. Bacardi have distilleries also in Spain and India. Carta Negra…