As a practicing Pastafarian and a long time rum sipper (not mixer, as in rocket fuel that is sometimes marketed as rum) I would like to offer that your review falls so far off the mark as to be verging on laughable. This is one of the finest “sipping rums” I have tasted for the price, and I’ve got at least 20 different bottles in my rum cellar to compare it to. This Rum/Brandy is a rare pleasure and I would heartily recommend it to anyone with a little more time, experience and hair on their chest than our beloved Bilge. Get a sloop, pull up a mooring on a clear night and finish a bottle, then let’s chat…… Aaaargh! Happy Talk like a pirate week!

CE Behr

To be clear: it’s not the finest rum in the world, but it *is* the absolute best in the $20-25 range, and it’s a wonderful sipping rum for daily consumption.

I spoke with a Mt. Gay rep the other day at a tasting, and he said the SGR difference is: a.) it’s a distiller’s blend of new and old stuff; and b.) it’s aged in used bourbon barrels, which gives it the vanilla/butterscotch note that folks like so much.

I love the stuff, and I’m not alone; this review is a real outlier, folks!

Thanks for stopping by.

Mount Gay Sugar cane brandy is called sugar cane brandy because as mount gay rum ages in the barrel, between roughly years 4-6 it acquires a character somewhat reminicent to brandy, but in a very very rum way. Its when the palette taste really increases but before the oakiness starts to dominate.

The same rum in the same barrel, in years 1-4 is called Eclipse, years 5-6 is called Sugar cane brandy, and years 7-10 is Extra Old.

its all the same stuff mate. Of the 3 aged groups (sold as different rums) 1-4, 5-6, 7-10 … the brandy version is resoundingly the standout.

When sold overseas, the brandy term for legal reasons has to be replaced with the term rum, beacuase it is a rum, not brandy.

Rob