Tinygiant said:
Owyn_Merrilin said:
Tinygiant said:
Spiced rum. If you can find a good black spiced, it's even better.
I like to mix it with root beer (both liquids depend on a mix of complex flavors to get things right, and it works incredibly well), but most anything works.
Word to the wise, though - don't try the old holiday tradition of mixing it with Egg Nog. I love rum and Egg Nog, but the combination was just terrible.
I think you're supposed to use golden rum with eggnog. I can imagine spiced rum being weird with it XD
Well, I used Captain Morgan Original - nothing too fancy. You could well be right, but my biggest problem was that I could taste the booze very, very well. I might give that a shot this Christmas, though.
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Tasting the booze strongly with eggnog is a problem no matter what you mix it with, frankly. It has a tendency to separate whatever you mix it with into layers, and you have to make sure to stir really well.
Just to make sure we're on the same page, though, when I said golden rum, I was referring to the variety, not to "gold label" or whatever. There's three basic types of rum: gold, white, and spiced. Spiced rum is exactly what it sounds like, gold rum is rum that has been aged in a barrel for a while, and white rum is rum that skipped the barrel aging. You can get absolute rotgut that still counts as gold rum, although rum in general is harder to screw up than, say, whiskey.
Edit: in case it wasn't clear, neither gold nor white rum are spiced. They're just liquor made out of sugar cane and then either aged in a barrel or bottled straight off. Rum doesn't improve on its own if you let it sit; the changes from aging are purely due to stuff picked up from the wooden barrels.
