Review: Blue Chair Bay Mocha Rum Cream
Blue Chair Bay Mocha Rum Cream was introduced September 2022. Kenny Chesney launched the Blue Chair Bay brand of rum in 2013. Mocha Rum Cream is one of six rum creams including Banana, Pineapple, Key Lime, Mango, and Coconut Spiced. They also produce a white, spiced, coconut, banana, and vanilla rum. The rum base is distilled in Barbados from molasses and aged for 1 year in white oak barrels. In crafting Mocha Cream, the Caribbean rum is blended with real cream, chocolate, coconut, coffee, and other natural flavors. Read more 
Review: Hilton Head Distillery Toasted Coconut Rum
Hilton Head Distillery Toasted Coconut Rum is one of nine rums crafted at Hilton Head Distillery. The others include, Platinum White, Dark Pineapple, Island Cream, Bananas Foster, Spiced, Mountain Peak Espresso, and the just released Solera and Panela rum. They also produce Aermoor Vodka, a peach and butterscotch whiskey, and Lewis Redmond 1861 Bourbon. Joe Fenton opened Hilton Head distillery September 2016 after previously founding Dark Corner Distillery in Greenville South Carolina. HHD Toasted Coconut is made from their molasses distilled unaged Platinum White Rum base. Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 70 proof. Their entire product line is available at the distillery and throughout South Carolina. Read more
Review: Beach Road Coconut Rum
Beach Road Coconut Rum is crafted at Paradise North Distillery in Green Bay Wisconsin. While Green Bay Wisconsin is not exactly where you might picture a beach, much less a place where coconut rum is produced, Green Bay Wisconsin does have a beach on Lake Michigan, and the distillery is located on Bay Beach Road. Tom Feld opened The Paradise North Distillery in 2021. They currently produce several rums, vodka, and whiskey. Beach Road Coconut Rum is made from their Beach Road Silver rum base distilled from domestically sourced black strap molasses, and raw can sugar. Natural coconut flavor, and pure cane sugar are blended before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Dented Brick Disco-Nut Coconut Rum
Dented Brick Disco-Nut Coconut Rum was released July 2020. It is made in collaboration with the Utah Pride Center and the Pride Center at Equality Park in Florida. 10% of sales are donated to support these organizations. Disco-Nut Coconut is made from a 81 proof light rum base distilled from sugar cane molasses in the US Virgin Islands. The rum is then proofed down with artesian well water filtered through multiple charcoal filters. Coconut syrup made with real coconut, and edible glitter are blended before bottling at 50 proof. Dented Brick also crafts a Mango, Pineapple, and Passion Fruit flavored glitter rum. Read more
Review: Hard Truth Toasted Coconut Rum Cream
Hard Truth Toasted Coconut Rum Cream is one of a handful of spirits currently crafted at the Hard Truth Distilling Co. in Nashville Indiana. The other spirits include Hard Truth Vodka, Cinnamon Vodka, Indiana Straight Rye Whiskey, Sweet Mash Rye, Gin, Peanut Butter Whiskey, Maple Bourbon Cream, White Rum, and Toasted Coconut Rum. The white rum base is made from premium Black Pearl select molasses and pure sugar cane. It is fermented using a Caribbean Island strain of yeast and distilled twice at a low proof to retain flavor then proofed down using Brown County Indiana water. Toasted flake coconut, cane sugar natural sea salt, and cream are blended before bottling at 30 proof. Read more
Review: Captain Morgan Cherry Vanilla
Captain Morgan Cherry Vanilla was just released. This is not the worlds first cherry flavored rum, I’ve reviewed six already, but it is the Captains first. While not as famous and peanut butter and jelly, cherry and vanilla have several very successful marriages. These include Cherry Vanilla ice cream, Cherry Vanilla Coke, Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper, Cherry Vanilla Burts Bee lip balm, and more recently Skatter Brain Dark Cherry Vanilla Whiskey. Captain Morgan Cherry Vanilla is made from premium Caribbean rum, spice, natural flavors, and certified color. The rum base is made from sugarcane molasses. It is distilled in St. Croix on a continuous still and aged in oak barrels for 1 year. Read more
Review: Montauk Rum Runners Coconut Rum
Montauk Rum Runners Coconut Rum is one of three spirits produced by Montauk Rum Runners. The other three include Montauk Honey Flavored Whiskey, and Montauk Citrus Flavored Gin. All three are distilled and bottled at Long Island Spirits in Baiting Hollow New York. The rum base is distilled from molasses. Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 60 proof. Montauk Coconut is a rum we were looking for three years ago when we were putting together our Coconut Rum Roundup, and again when we were working on a Top Ten Coconut Rum list last year. We never finished either as I lost my appendix 3/4 of the way through the Coconut Rum Roundup, and my smell and taste for 6 weeks due to Covid half way through our Top Ten Coconut Rum list last October. I promise we will finally complete a Coconut Rum Roundup early next year. While it appears Montauk Rum rum is no longer produced it is still available at New York Craft Spirits. Read more
Review: SelvaRey Coconut Rum
SelvaRey Coconut Rum was released June 2021. It joins the previously reviewed SelvaRey White, and SelvaRey Chocolate Rum. Brand owner Bruno Mars also launched SelvaRey Owner’s Reserve made with a blend rums aged from 15 to 25 years. SelvaRey rum is made at Las Cabras Distillery in Panama. Master Distiller Don Poncho grew up cutting sugarcane in Cuba and quickly rose through the ranks at Havana Club. While on a mission from the Cuban government to help the Panamanian rum industry he fell in love with a local women. He left Cuba and with Carlos Esquivel built a distillery in the Panamanian jungle in a warehouse originally built as a sugar mill in 1919. The rum base is made from cane sugar grown in Pese Panama. The cane sugar juice is collected and cooked to separate the crystalized raw sugar from the molasses which is cooked to a grade A molasses standard. The molasses is fermented with a proprietary strain of wild pineapple yeast and after distilling, the rum is aged for 2 years in American white oak barrels. Coconut essence is infused before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Malibu Watermelon
Malibu Watermelon was released April 2021. It is one of ten varieties of Malibu Rum. Malibu hopes to duplicate the success they enjoyed last year with the release of Malibu Strawberry Rum, and Malibu Splash. Malibu Splash is a 5% alcohol sparkling malt beverage sold in 12 ounce cans. These cans are sold in individual flavor 4 packs and 4 flavor 8 can variety packs. Malibu Watermelon starts with a rum base made in Barbados at West Indies Distillery from molasses created with Caribbean cane sugar and pure water. A proprietary yeast is used to ferment prior to distillation. The rum is shipped to Canada where it is blended with watermelon liqueur and bottled at 42 proof. Read more
Review: Bacardi Tropical Rum
Bacardi Tropical Rum is the newest addition to Bacardi’s stable of flavored rum. That list currently includes Limon, Lime, Coconut, Dragonberry, Pineapple, Mango, and Raspberry. It is made from a molasses rum base. The molasses is fermented with Le Levadura, a single strain of proprietary yeast, for 30 hours in closed fermentation tanks. The fermented spirit is split. Some is column distilled. Some is beer distilled. Each is aged separately in charred American White oak bourbon barrels. Once mature the rums are blended and filtered through a mix of charcoal made from tropical woods and coconut shells. Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 70 proof. Read more