$36
A banana-flavoured Jamaican rum from the Tiki Lovers range, built for tropical cocktails at 42%, leaning into the ripe banana note that island pot-still rum already hints at and dialling it up for the tiki bar.
Description
Tiki Lovers Banana is a flavoured Jamaican rum bottled at 42%, a banana-forward expression made from molasses spirit and built explicitly for tiki and tropical cocktails. There is no distillery, age or cask detail published, which fits its purpose as a mixing component rather than a sipping rum.
Ripe banana is one of the signature esters of Jamaican pot-still rum, so a banana-flavoured island rum plays directly to type, pushing that note to the front over a fruity molasses base. At 42% it has enough strength to carry through a mai tai or daiquiri without losing the flavour. This is an honest cocktail tool, a sweet-leaning banana rum for mixing, not an aged or unflavoured Jamaican pour.
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