[PJ-Comix]

I'll have to check it out. I wonder how Havana Club stacks up against my FAVORITE rum, Flor de Caña?

[1rudeboy]

bttt

[paddles]

I have a couple bottles of the Cuban variety....it's not that good. I'll look forward to trying the "new" Havana Club.

I'm a big fan of Barbancourt...it makes the best rum and coke.

[bagadonutz]

Flor de Cana is very good. Too bad I can't get it around here. I like Gosling's (Bermuda) just as much.

[Sam Cree]

I'm usually OK with just some vodka with cranapple juice poured in, maybe a key lime.

Will have to try this Havana Club, though, this news has kind of a happy feel to it.

I like Bacardi better than Flor de Cana, which I think is a little perfumy in flavor. Bacardi is harsher, but somehow that pleases me. OTOH, I'm getting too old to drink much anymore.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Unlike most countries, the United States typically gives priority to the first entity to utilize a brand, not the first to register it, said Miami attorney Jim Gale, whose firm Feldman Gale specializes in trademark and patent law.

US Admiralty law is the same way. Goes against the rest of the "International" approach to maritime laws by other nations. Gotta love the U.S. of A.!

[Hydroshock]

Put me down for a fifth.

[Redbob]

You should try Westerhall Plantation if you find a bottle; it's "estate bottled" in the US Virgin Islands, and has a distinct cane taste.
It's a clear sipping rum, and NOT hideously expensive, but it's hard to find.

[Petronski]

They better have a sit with Hyman Roth, make sure this is okay.

[Aquinasfan]

there will be two versions of Havana Club for sale, one from Bacardi and the other from the Cuban/French joint venture.

Hmmm... I think I'll go with... Bacardi!

[tdewey10]

Venezuelan Rum is the best. Particularly Ron Pompero Anniversaro.

[freethinkingman]

One of my favorite topics.

Fav's include: Appleton XO (extra old) Pyrat XO Mount Gay Eclipse Bacardi 8 Bacardi Anejo The Anejo is a distict flavor, came across it in Key West and I have been hooked on aged rums ever since. btw Captain Morgan = spiced rum , its too busy for me, try Bacardi 8 if you want a treat, has distict carmel aftertaste.

[Don Carlos]

Flor de Caña - Have an emply bottle that a friend brought from Nicaragua last year. 5 year old Black Label. Do you know of a USA source? Its a very sippable run on the rocks. Reminds me of Bacardi Select.

Lots of rum threads since Castro's (ahem) mis-fortune, huh?

[livius]

Irrefutable evidence that Fidel's dead.

[chilepepper]

the best rum IMHO is Brugal. it was cuban of course, but the brugal family fled cuba but had distilleries in Domincan Republic and St. Croix USVI. excellent stuff!

venezuelan pampero is good stuff too, or at least it was before the clown chavez and his parrot took over...

down here in Chile you can get the cuban/frog version of Havana Club. make great molotov cocktails or lighter fluid but i wouldn't actually drink the stuff...

[agenda_express]

Try Don Q rum. Distilled in P. Rico. Can be found some places here in the states.

[Invisible Gorilla]

Arechabala, former sales manager of the family company, said Monday he vividly remembers the day the bodyguard of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara placed a gun to his head and took over the Havana Club distillery in Cardenas.

Not the most important reason to hate every Che t-shirt and bumper sticker I see, but I'll add it to the list.