The beer's good. Crisp and light. Lighter than what I usually get, but good for summer.
The rum's delicious. This was probably the best recommendation I ever got from this site. That said, I think I'm done with rum exploration, unless I see/get recommended something of verifiable quality. There's too much shenanigans in rum production. No real guidelines by statute. Seems like everything's fair game, and the only requirement is had to be sugar at some point. Objectively, I guess the main requirement is it tastes good, but subjectively, it tastes better when it was made with skilled distillation and casking. Anything added aside from age is cheating, and cheapens it a bit. I posted before I thought Kirk & Sweeney was delicious, but the more I tasted it, the more it tasted like the weird vanilla flavor EJ brandy XO("extra smooth" :rollseyes: ) has. It tastes good, but it tastes like a chemist put it together. Something anyone with a gas spectrometry setup could do.
I'll stick with my first two rums which were both winners(Pussers. Angostura 1919), and that'll be sufficient for my rum fix.