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In this episode, we talked to Turner Wathen and Jordan Morris, the co-founders of Rolling Fork Rum, and went DEEP on everything the Kentucky-based independent bottler has learned about secondary maturation (and more) since getting started in 2017. We discussed:

Rolling Fork's focus on utilizing an array of ex-bourbon and ex-whiskey casks for secondary maturation

How much of a difference do different types of ex-whiskey casks REALLY make on a spirit that is primarily already aged in ex-bourbon casks?

Why they just launched a rum blend designed for cocktails after their first cocktail rum failed

How they work through disagreements as co-founders

What it's like selling rum deep in the heart of bourbon country

How different types of casks — from ex-fortified wine barrels to ex-whiskey barrels — react to the wild temperature swings in their aging warehouse

Matching the right type of cask to the right rum

How the independent bottler landscape has changed since they got started in 2017

And a whole lot more!

A few links to stuff mentioned in the episode:

Check out The Rum Revival's blind tasting of Rolling Fork rums finished in five different cask types

Check out Rolling Fork's website and online store here

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We're back with another episode in our Semi-Blind Rum Reviews series. This time, we swapped roles with Will as the blind taster and John as the rum selector. It turned out to be a quite rare rum — English Harbour 1981, a 25-year-old rum from Antigua Distillery Limited, bottled all the way back in 2006!

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For this episode, we reached DEEP into the backs of our cabinets and pulled out a selection of rums we had long overlooked, neglected, or even forgotten about in our bars to see how our thoughts have evolved (or IF they have at all).

The rules were simple: it just had to be a bottle we hadn't tasted in at least two years.

Along the way, we discuss everything from market correcting Myers's Original Dark to John discovering (re-discovering?) one of the three best rums he's tried all year to packaging debates and more. It was a fun time, and we hope this inspires you to have your own back-of-the-cabinet adventure!

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