Using 5 liter aging barrels

[danmiz]

thanks mrcat!

[MrCat]

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Out of interest did it taste woody, or did it have a whiskey\bourbon thing going on with it? I've used too much wood before with rum (at least I think that was the problem), and it tasted more like a bourbon until you got the molasses after taste.

We had a good tasting session on friday night.

Initially there is this big hit of wood. Not really like a whisky (and I don't drink bourbon - yet). Less like a whisky than the appletons 12yr old rum for instance, then there is a bit of a taste of fruit followed by the nice molasses taste. Disappointing finish though as it's 60% which overwhelms the palate and the back of the throat blurring the finish. I suggested cutting it down to 40% for a try and was outvoted by the testers as they thought this should be left to the individual and not decided by me.

Very smooth for an overproof rum. I will be trying some JD chips on half of it to bump up the complexity a bit.