The distilling arm of BrewDog is staying very busy, and this is another tasty example of the fruits of its labour - Five Hundred Cuts Botanical Rum! The spirit is distilled from sugar cane molasses, fermented with red wine yeast and rum yeast for seven days, and then double pot distilled. Afterwards, botanicals join the party, with the likes of orange peel, lavender, schezuan peppercorns and cardamom being re-distilled in the spirit, while cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, tonka bean, ginger, and allspice, are steeped in the spirit for 14 hours. The two spirits are blended and finished off with a touch of muscovado sugar.
The Five Hundred Cuts name is inspired by Elizabeth Blackwell, who, in the 18th century, created the most comprehensive herbal (a text of plant illustrations and descriptions) of plant engravings (or 'cuts') at the time. 500 of them, in fact. Not only was it sizeable, it was also one of the first herbals to show the plants drawn accurately!
Coca-cola, dark chocolate, caramel combine with more aromatic notes like ginger, orange peel and cloves.
Highly aromatic, almost menthol, with assertive cardamom leading balanced by rich dark sugar.
Fresh and herbal, like upmarket cold cure.
Wow! Most people on here don't seem to have very well rounded pallets. Does it taste like your standard spiced rum? No. But that's what great about it. It tastes like a mulled wine version of rum. Incredibly warming and smooth. The clove is very dominant and maybe that's what people don't like but there are other beautiful flavours partnered too. It does call itself a botanical rum and not a spiced rum so I think people need to bear that in mind when they taste it. Best drunk neat and warm.
Definitely too clovey, very over powering clove flavours.
Terrifying.. can’t believe it’s allowed .. as another said makes Morgan spiced top stuff in comparison . Just do t even try it.. every purchase is a scam from some over egotistical brewery.. beer terrible.. I had to eat a raw lemon to wash the discusting taste from my mouth... it’s pure ignorance in a bottle ..
I think this is really lovely. So many different tastes and after tastes!!
I got a bottle of this as a gift and am really shocked by all the bad reviews, I love it! Definitely tastes like Christmas but personally I don't think that's a bad thing.
