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Foursquare Premise

This review is long, long overdue. Perhaps that is a good thing though. Perhaps some opinions are best left to formulate overtime. Perhaps somethings best reveal themselves in due course. Foursquare Premise is one of those things. The 8th Release in their Exceptional Cask Series and perhaps, the most controversial. I will be the first to admit; as a lover of Foursquare Distillery, I was not a fan. When I first tried this in April of 2018 at the Chicago...

Foursquare Dominus

dominus noun do·mi·nus | \ˈdämənəs\ plural domini \-ˌnē, -ˌnī \ Definition of dominus 1  : an owner as distinguished from a user 2  : a principal as distinguished from an agent History and Etymology for dominus Latin, lord, master   In the midst of chaos, I have found something that resembles peace. As I sit on my patio surrounded by the sounds of birds chirping and a squirrel running through leaves two floors below me, I take in the sunshine on the 57-degree...

Bounty Rum

Well after another extended absence from writing reviews; I decided that it was time to write up a couple of rums that are floating under the radar, but starting to make themselves known in the cocktail scene. I received these samples from Melissa Pinkerton at SPIRIBAM: Fine Rum Specialists over the summer before I left Chicago for Nashville. She was very excited to start bringing these to new accounts and introducing cocktail rums from Saint Lucia. A beautiful little island...

Foursquare 2004

FOURSQUARE 2004   STYLE: RUM ABV: 59% DISTILLER: Foursquare Rum Distillery, St. Philp, Barbados AGE: 11 Years   The 2004 vintage from Foursquare Rum Distillery in Barbados comes in as Mark III of the Exceptional Cask Series. Released in September of 2015, is a single blended rum  produced by Foursquare from their pot and  traditional twin column (Coffey) still and was aged in the tropics for 11 years in a combination of 1st, 2nd and 3rd fill ex-bourbon barrels. Because...

ENGLISH HARBOUR PORT CASK

ENGLISH HARBOUR PORT CASK FINISH   STYLE: Rum ABV: 46% DISTILLER: Antigua Distillery Ltd, St. John’s, Antigua AGE: 5 Year (Finished three to six months in Port Butts). Bottled November 2016.   English Harbour is a newer rum for me and I am kicking myself for not having discovered them sooner. Although the brand has only existed since the early 1990’s, Antigua Distillery Ltd has a history dating back to 1932 and includes a five and 10-year rum in their...