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Posted
1 year ago
Tasted at Laka Lono 4/17/22 on Easter, in celebration of completing a 12 hour work day. This was rum 2 of 3 from Kirk and Sweaney.
The flavor is lighter than the 23. It seemed slightly medicinal, or perhaps carried an improbably peppermint flavor.
Posted
over 1 year ago
I had hear only good things about kirk and Sweeney from this site. So when I found it during my trip to Seattle I was debating on which bottle to get. I settled on the 12 year instead of the 18 which they also had. Overall I was a bit disappointed, as it is good but with a pretty mild flavor profile and quite thin mouth feel. I was just expecting a quite distinct flavor that I would label this rum with but was left with a quite standard rum Which was not too sweet and goes down easy.
Posted
over 1 year ago
Nice on ice and never been disappointed… especially when on sale at our local grocery store!
Posted
over 1 year ago
Quite enjoyable with coke, good flavour for a 12 year aged rum
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over 1 year ago
Nice well rounded rum, versatile, but lacks some character to remember it..
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over 1 year ago
I found this smooth, very drinkable and one to enjoy with friends - making it a solid crowd pleaser. I sense a lot of additional sugar, which is why I rate it a 7, but having a look around online it says it has little additives, but I find that hard to believe. Still I wasn't disappointed and I look forward to going through their range.
Need to try again for proper review. Moving short review from Distiller tasting 3/2017
Posted
over 1 year ago
Tasted at Laka Lono on 1/19/20. This was the earlier version of the rum that they have reconfigured as reserva. Big banana aroma. Sweetness to first taste with a mild pepper finish. A big banana flavor persists. Cloves. Vanilla. Finishes mild.
Posted
2 years ago
Incredibly well done and not that different from the 18 and 23 year versions.
Posted
2 years ago
Good marketing sells. Neat bottle. Looks fancy. Didn’t taste like good rum. Kirk nor Sweeney are releasing quality aged rum.
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Until a few short years ago, I believed that Rum was mainly good for mixing with sodas and juices to add a little flavor and a lot of kick to a cocktail. That was until one night at Foundation Tiki Bar in Milwaukee when I was pleased to meet a bottle that was a game changer.
Don at Foundation and I struck up a ready friendship one evening when I was visiting the area. I told him that I was probably going to move to the Dominican Republic for work. He pulled a beautiful and heavy bottle from the shelf and asked if I had tried Dominican Rum. I had not, so he introduced me to Kirk and Sweeney 12 year old and with that a whole new world opened to me.
Perhaps I score the 12 a bit high, but to be fair, it is kind of my first love when it comes to the world of fine rums. I have to say that the 18 is definately worth the few extra bucks, but as far as I am concerned, one can stop there, the 23 is not much better, if at all than the 18.
The Kirk and Sweeney is not overly sweet and has lovely overtones of vanilla. It is smooth as a mink glove and is in my opinion, much overlooked.
Now, I have recently moved to the Cleveland area and alas, Kirk and Sweeney is not distributed here. I hope that they will find their way into our market because I miss them.
I have won over more than a few scotch drinking buddies with K&S.