I got a cubic shit ton of rum since I'm making my personal Planter's Punch recipe this weekend, and we got an early start with some rum cocktails. A
Dark and Stormy with Fever Tree ginger beer (which is delicious, by the way; nice ginger spice to it), a
Hotel Nacional Special (not bad, but next time I'm going easy on the pineapple juice), a
Bacardi Cocktail (with Plantation white rum in place of Bacardi; still homemade grenadine though)... and then my friend came over and made himself a white rum and Organic RockStar, because that's how he do (I've had worse combinations of alcohol and energy drink, to be fair). So, you know, good times.
Also, I just want to take a moment to say that rum is awesome. Plantation 3 Star White Rum and Coruba Dark Jamaican Rum are both less than $17 a bottle in my neck of the woods, and they're excellent. Shit, Plantation comes in a liter bottle, so it's basically, per volume, half the price of Jack Daniels, and it is superior in every conceivable way (even with the handicap of not being whiskey). And even the crazy-old aged rums cost, in general, less than an entry-level single malt Scotch. Rum is some good shit. Especially given that tomorrow is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. GET YE SOME GROG AND DRINK HEARTY LADS.