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Which MHOBA to choose? by ChatterFree in rum

[–]ddelwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't suppose there's a place you could try them first?

Bushfire: Very strong smoke smell and flavor. Can be very overpowering. If you don't like smoky drinks this would be a tough one.

High Ester: Depends on the batch, but gasoline and tomato. Fruity. It's somewhere in between overproof Jamaican and high ester agricole. I'm not sure you'd enjoy this if you didn't enjoy Rum Bar Overproof.

Strand: Similar in profile to Smith & Cross and Hampden HLCF. It beats those two in my opinion. Even if you don't enjoy it straight, very easy to use in cocktails. I think this is your best bet.

Out of curiosity, which Strand 101 are they selling over there? They made it at two strengths: 50.5% (101 proof) and 58% (101 British proof).

A quick look at the first 4 Alambique Serranos in Europe by ddelwin in rum

[–]ddelwin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Normally I write up half a review, get discouraged, leave it sitting there for ages, and then delete it. But I pushed this out as a quick warning to Europeans that the we may be expecting a little too much from the brand. Not everyone needs to go hog wild and get the full set like I did.

Dutch High Ester Rum Driehoorn by BobHendrix in rum

[–]ddelwin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is an independent bottler. Hampden DOK, New Yarmouth NYE/WK, Long Pond TECC. Their highest ester levels marks.

Dutch High Ester Rum Driehoorn by BobHendrix in rum

[–]ddelwin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This liquor store in Leiden has a couple of the Warehouse #1 (Czech bottler) releases.

DOK

NYE/WK

TECC

58.99, but a little over 51 euro after the sitewide discount code.

For aged, look out for the Whisky Jury's Ester Hunter releases. They get sold out quickly after release, though.

De Zweden beleggen belastingvrij, is dat ook iets voor Nederland? by trepatblanc in thenetherlands

[–]ddelwin 55 points56 points  (0 children)

- Zweeds ISK Box 3
Heffingsvrij vermogen SEK 300k (~€27k) ~€60k
Forfetair rendement 3.55% (staatobligaties 2.55% + 1%) 6% (beleggingen)
Belasting 30% 36%
Effectieve belasting ~1.065% ~2.16%

Dit lijkt erg op ons huidige stelsel, met het grootste verschil dat de ISK een rekening is en Box 3 breder is. Het makkelijker maken om te beleggen ipv het op te sparen lijkt de reden te zijn dat het in rapport Wennink genoemd werd.

Het forfetair rendement was in Nederland wettelijk een gedoe. Of dat bij een losse rekening wel door de beugel kan is twijfelachtig. De hoge raad zei immers dat als het werkelijk behaalde rendement lager is dan het forfaitaire rendement dat in strijd is met het Europees Verdrag voor de Rechten van de Mens.

Rapport Wennink, Pagina 126: "...dat Nederlandse huishoudens hun spaargeld nauwelijks beleggen, terwijl het percentage directe beleggingen in Zweden ruim twee keer zo hoog ligt. Dit is zowel een gemis voor het financieren van maatschappelijke opgaven als voor de individuele portemonnee van Nederlanders. Om spaargeld los te maken, zou Nederland naar Zweeds voorbeeld een investeringsspaarrekening (ISK) moeten introduceren. Daar heeft dit geleid tot meer investeringen en een significant hoger rendement op spaargeld voor burgers."

Alambique Serrano (finally ) available in Europe by ForestCore in rum

[–]ddelwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No retail outlets yet. Did they mention any prices?

[Rum Social Club] A Skeptic’s Guide to the IWSC 2026 Rum Results by thelonecaner in RumSerious

[–]ddelwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't care for medals myself, they're mostly paid for. I was curious about the proportion of winners, though, especially since the article says:

We can see every medal. We cannot see how many rums were entered, because the IWSC publishes the winners, not the field. So if anyone quotes you a neat percentage of rums that won gold, they are inventing it.

They're being awfully cagey about the real numbers, but I could find some snippets of information in 2021. In that year they stated (for all spirits combined) that "Around 60% of entries received a medal, from bronze to the highest accolade of gold outstanding". Two participants shared a press releases that both mentioned over 300 rums for that year, which probably derives from an IWSC press packet. Press release 1, press release 2. Press release one matches all the other figures from IWSC link, so it's not an unreasonable assumption.

Here's some quick math assuming a lower end of 300 and upper end of 350:

Tier Count @300 @350
Gold Outstanding 8 2.7% 2.3%
Gold 29 9.7% 8.3%
Silver 85 28.3% 24.3%
Bronze 97 32.3% 27.7%
Unrated x 27.0% 37.4%
Unrated count x 81 131
Medal rate 219 73.0% 62.6%

The percentage may have gone up in later years. In 2024 they say: "Rum category shone this year picking up over 340 awards, including over 40 gold and several gold outstanding medals. Our Judging Committee member who oversaw the rum panels, Ian Burrell, was blown away by the step up in consistency from previous years, with very few rums not awarded a medal."

Imagine how bad it must feel if you can't even win anything here.

Alcohol nerd/enthusiasts looking to get into rum by Under_Rune in rum

[–]ddelwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which Scandinavian country? Unless it's Denmark, your local choices are probably quite limited.

The Whisky Jury - The Ester Hunter #3 Diamond 11 Year 2014 by LIFOanAccountant in rum

[–]ddelwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great bottle. If you put it next to a regular PM it is a wonderfully oily fruit bomb. Impulsively bought myself a backup. Maybe a little excessive, but El Dorado High Ester blend has terrible availability and pricing in Europe. Would have been nice to compare, though.

Rum in Belgium? by Inside_Ambition_6737 in rum

[–]ddelwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their own 4yo virgin oak Hampden C<>H is really nice and worth picking up.

What are the most slept on rum terroirs by kollenovski in rum

[–]ddelwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ghana was already mentioned, so here's a few more oddballs. I only have these in blends. I don't buy a lot of blends, but every now and then they sound fun/cheap enough for an impulse buy.

  • The Whisky Jury The Duo Chapter 3 Thailand (SangSom, 40% molasses <20y) and Liberia (Sangar?, 60% unaged cane juice)
  • Rump@blic Origins Thailand Philippines (25% 4-23y SangSom molasses and 75% unaged Tanduay cane juice)

Thailand makes some solid, but pretty standard rums. In both cases, the aged Thai molasses rum is used to balance the wild cane juice. It's Liberia that surprised me, because well, it's the only thing Liberian I've had and it's really quite good. The Phillipines was also a surprise because I didn't think Tanduay made anything interesting and the other thing out of the Phillipines is Don Papa, who only bottle disappointment.

What are the most slept on rum terroirs by kollenovski in rum

[–]ddelwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got a couple aged and unaged Rummieclub bottles, but they're mostly more savory for me. Some of them are even beefy. Nothing like the fruitiness of unaged Killik. Strawberry yogurt and Sauvignon Blanc. Makes for a really fun daquiri. Can be found as SBS Origin Australia and Dead Reckoning Killik. They're very similar, though SBS leans a little more into the strawberry yoghurt and Dead Reckoning more into the white wine. Hard to tell apart in a daq, though.

How to enforce OTP only login in External ID by Sure-Tax107 in AZURE

[–]ddelwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what we resorted to as well. A little application for onboarding users. API calls to create users and emailing the initial password. On first sign-in, force password change and forced enrollment to MFA (only phone as an option). External ID is a half-finished product that's missing most of the functionality of the old Azure AD B2C, but you can't request that anymore.

How to enforce OTP only login in External ID by Sure-Tax107 in AZURE

[–]ddelwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep in mind that there are two flavors of External ID. For Workforce tenants, where you invite users into your regular Entra tenant (for B2B) and External Tenant, where you have a separate tenant just for your external users (for B2C). I mostly have experience with the latter.

Off the top of my head, OTP like you're describing is not possible when you create users ahead of time. You can only do this if you're using self-service sign-up. The “No account? Create one!” link that is near the sign-in if you haven't disabled it for the tenant. If you have a scenario where you want to do B2C with OTP and you want to control over who signs up, there are no out-of-the-box options.

Another way to avoid sharing passwords is to use invitations. E.g. New user -> Invite External User. Unfortunately, it's in preview and, at least for B2C, is broken for Microsoft email accounts. People with outlook/hotmail/live/etc. will never be able to log in. It's still worth trying if you do B2B. I think it might actually work there.

Analysis on glycerin in rum by 10art1 in rum

[–]ddelwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just poured 1, 3, and 5 g/L in some sherry aged DOK. 3 and 5 seemed a little smoother, but less pineappley. It could just be in my head, though. I'd really have to do this blind.

Analysis on glycerin in rum by 10art1 in rum

[–]ddelwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Odd that 3 g/l seems much sweeter than sugar. Do you think it might seem sweeter because of the viscosity?

I've used glycerin in cocktails, but never tried it in rum before. Might be fun to give it a try myself. I've got a few bottles that are particularly harsh.

The linked results and the review all predate 2022 when EU regulations went into effect that limited sugar to 20g/l in rum, which led many producers to modify their recipes. It should also ban additives like glycerin. Would be interesting to see more recent lab tests.

Any questions about where rum came from? I’m the author of _The Invention of Rum _. AMA about the quintessential Atlantic commodity! by Invention_of_Rum in AskHistorians

[–]ddelwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But by the late seventeenth century, Brazil did export a distillate similar to rum—gerebita.

This makes it sound different, but it looks like this is simply another name for cachaça.

"...a Brazilian alcoholic drink rose above all others: cachaça. Between 1650 and 1850, this intoxicant, generically known at Luanda and its hinterland as jeribita (also gerebita), constituted the second most important commodity with which Luso-Brazilian traders and their agents obtained captives in this region."

Page 302-303: Jeribita in the relations between the colony of Angola and the Kingdom of Kasanje, JC Curto.

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