Hamilton White Stache Rum (1L, 43.5%)

Hamilton White Stache Rum is a white rum at 43.5% ABV in a 1L bottle. Ed Hamilton created it to recreate the aged, carbon-filtered white rums he drank over 20 years sailing the West Indies. The bulk is aged rum from Trinidad, blended with molasses distillates from Guyana and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, then carbon-filtered back to clear so the oak flavour stays while the colour goes. At Five & 20 Distillery in Westfield, New York, the blend is diluted slowly over five days with filtered well water, with no flavours, sugar or glycerine added. Hamilton's own notes describe a touch of ethanol on opening that gives way, after a minute's air, to ripe papaya, banana and coconut; more tropical fruit and coconut through the body; and a slight vanilla note in the finish.