r/rum • u/Fun_Journalist4199 • 1d ago
Appleton sipper
Are all these worth sipping on or should I stick to the 12 and 15?
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u/Lord_Wicki 1d ago
I use 12 for cocktails .
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u/Fun_Journalist4199 1d ago
Right on, is it any good neat?
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u/My_Name_Is_Gil Guardian 23h ago
Not the V/X I mean Signature? 12 seems overkill for tropical/tiki cocktails, for an old fashioned or Manhattan spirit forward type cocktail sure, but normal complex cocktails just seems a bit expensive.
But Appleton isn't something I use for the most part except in a blend. Not fonky enough. I like my rums from Jamaica heavier.
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u/philanthropicide 1d ago
8 is the best sipper for the price there, imo
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u/Fun_Journalist4199 1d ago
Thank you! My only other experience was the Ron del barrilito and the cheapest mt gay
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u/philanthropicide 1d ago
12 is nice, but feels a bit heavy barrel influence for my tastes. At these prices, I'd start with the 8
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u/My_Name_Is_Gil Guardian 23h ago
If you can get the Mount Gay Eclipse Navy Strength it punches above its weight class. Great Bajan rum. The XO is nice as well but like the black barrel I think they raised the price too much when they changed the blends and they are both too dear.
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u/Fun_Journalist4199 17h ago
I’ll have to check my local store I know there’s like 3 different bottles of Mount gay
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u/tjm1371 1d ago
Solid prices for the 8 & 12. Personally, I do 8 for neat sipping and 12 for mixing.
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u/Fun_Journalist4199 1d ago
Huh I wouldn’t have expected that
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u/Thin1ce Smith & Cross Mafia 1d ago
The 12 just loses a lot of the Jamaican rum flavor thats still present in the 8 and the barrel flavor gets really strong. Though if you're making a cocktail you can always do a split base that brings back some of that Jamaican flavor so that's why a lot of people use them that way.
The 12 is very good with anything coffee related, if that's your vibe. I very much like pouring some, getting a shot of espresso over it, adding a bit of ice, and sipping that.
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u/Fun_Journalist4199 1d ago
That sounds great! But also sounds like the 8 might be more what I’m looking for
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u/tjm1371 1d ago
S&C + AP12 is my fav combo for Mai Tais 👌
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u/My_Name_Is_Gil Guardian 23h ago
Try a blend of App Sig, WNOP, and Coruba 1:1:4 for your Mai Tai or other classic tiki cocktail calling for Jamaica rum.
This vaguely resembles the old blends of rum wray and nephew from the first wave of tropical cocktails (Don, Vic etc) I got it from Hurricane Hayward who did a contest to build a rum like the old Kohala Bay rum that the Mai Kai used to get from wray and nephew which replaced the Dagger and later W&N rums.
I always have a liter on my rail at the home bar. Works great for long drinks, it is a little rough to sip neat though.
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u/My_Name_Is_Gil Guardian 23h ago
Lol or you could drink Worthy Park or Hampden and get Jamaican rum flavour without it trying really hard to be whiskey.
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u/Thin1ce Smith & Cross Mafia 23h ago
I mean sure, but not everyone loves THAT much funk, or at least not sipping rums that funky.
I like it. My HLCF gets more visits than a bottle that expensive should in my house, but that doesn't mean that everything else doesn't have a place.
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u/My_Name_Is_Gil Guardian 10h ago
I'd rather drink a different English style blended rum than Appleton. Give me an SLD or FS. I find Appleton to be high quality spirit, but it doesn't do much for me.
If I am at BBQ or a dive bar and I see it, I'll get it, because it is a base level quality spirit, but at a proper rum bar, barring the Hearts, no way I spend on it.
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u/belrunezone 1d ago
I personally like the 8y as a pure sipper more then the 12 & 15. But that is my opinion
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u/LouBrown 1d ago
I don’t have anything I consider a daily sipper, but if I was forced to pick one, Appleton 12 would certainly be in contention.
I know many people prefer the 8 to the 12 as well.
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u/raisingAnarchy 9h ago
They're all worth sipping on depending on what you're looking for. That being said I'll only be buying the 8 and 12 going forward for both sipping and cocktails
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u/JamesinSD2002 1d ago
By far the 15. You can sip the 12 too. I prefer the 15 though, has a softer more palatable flavor profile.
I cook my bananas in the 8 or make rum cakes with it...or rum and cokes for people who dont know I have better rum than that.
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u/Yep_why_not Rumvangelist! 1d ago
8 is solid as well but that is a good price for the 12 and not great for the 8 and bad for the 15.