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.
I don't normally feel the need to comment on drinks but I felt compelled to this time. I love my rums and I also love gluhwein and mulled wine but this was not pleasant at all. It was far too overly spiced with cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg that was overpowering as opposed to interesting therefore quite sickly. The rum got lost in this and vor once couldn't finish the drink. Very disappointing and will not be having this again.
Really enjoyed this rum, unique flavour, very easy drinking.
If you love cloves, buy Cloven Hoof which is properly awesome. This stuff is thin, full of sediment and tastes like bad medicine. Not recommended.
genuinely that's what it tastes like. Its really easy to drink straight probably tricky to pair with anything. Perfectly enjoyable.
If you enjoy a sweet flavoured rum like captain Morgan spiced gold then you'll definitely like this! It tastes great with coke and ginger ale!
