Cruzan Single Barrel Rum - #6 of Best Rum Brands

Cruzan Single Barrel Rum

If you are looking for complex flavors in a rum, Cruzan Single Barrel Rum deserves your attention. This brown rum is fermented from molasses, then subsequently aged from 5 to 12 years in used whisky and bourbon barrels. After years in the used barrels, it is then aged again in new charred barrels for about a year. This extra step gives the rum a more complex flavor that cannot be achieved in the used barrels. This rum tastes smoky, fruity and nutty. What is interesting is that, because each used barrel has a different characteristic than the last, each bottle will have a distinctly different quality. This makes enjoying a bottle of Cruzan Rum a slightly different experience every time, but with the same exceptional quality that you can expect from Cruzan. This rum is best enjoyed on the rocks or neat, although it can be used in cocktails.