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.
Hmm, it's a bit clovey. Fails as a stand-alone rum but is interesting when paired with after-dinner nibbles such as crackers, cheese and a slice of pickled walnut.
Words fail me for this rum.. Cut to the smoke was next to it in local asda.. I picked this up instead undrinkable no character just cloves in fact Morgan spice puts it to shame and that's really bad stuff.
Corn 'n' Oil in a single bottle. Infused with the spirit of velvet falernum. Definitely not your usual vanilla-essence-heavy spiced rum.
Very sweet and too spicy, also has a slight taste of Dr Pepper mixed with medicine. I can only agree with the person that recommends "Try before you buy" Having said the above I quite like Dr Pepper, mace and clove so will sort of enjoy mine in a sadistic way.
Cloves are far too overpowering, Suggest you try and find a bar that sells this before you buy a bottle. rather than shelling out quite a bit for a rum that, in theory, should be amazing. In reality this is going to be an expensive mistake for me. No matter how much coke you put in a dull biscuity taste remains, all the sweetness is gone.
