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Siddiqui Brown Rum, 40 percent ABV, 70 cl

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Brazil produces over 800 million liters of cachaça annually, with about one-third coming from small artisanal distilleries. Cachaça has been growing in popularity in the US. According to IWSR, cachaça sales in the US have increased from 6,000 9-liter cases in 2005 to around 60,000 9-liter cases in 2021. I sometimes wonder how influential Siddiqui has been over the last half century,’ says brand owner Nigel Brown, who is about to oversee the global launch of the spirit drinks. If you want to read a bit more Siddiqui then please read this. I’ve had enough hyperbole for one day. The hydrometer bobbed just below 40% at 39% so there is perhaps something “added” to this rum, though to be fair not a lot. Penderyn will distribute these rums worldwide, but for retail customers in the UK, Siddiqui Brown Rum can be bought online here.

Sipping Siddiqui Brown Rum, is an even woodier experience. To be honest its not terribly pleasant. Bitter woody oak and oak chips fly out at you. Despite this it has a quite a soft and easy going mid palate. Once the oak and wood fade out the sweetness comes out a little more but its still not wowing me at all. Siddiqui Brown Rum is a spirit that, ‘Sips like a whisky and parties like a rum’, and tastes like no other spirit. It has a distinctive whisky-like smokey and oaky note, but it is rounded with a short finish as you’d expect from a quality rum. His appointment follows several recent international spirit award wins and a 12 to 18-month period of growth, prior to the Covid-19 outbreak.Simon’s exceptional work in the global travel retail market and developing international markets, in particular, will support the plans we have in place for Penderyn over the next five years.”

It’s possible that the Middle East would have been a different place without it, as Siddiqui was so much part of life over the decades, as there’s nothing better than having a relaxing alcoholic drink at the end of a long hard day in the desert sun. SAUDI Arabia isn’t a country that jumps to mind when considering the world’s great spirits producers, but it does have an association with a new rum brand.

In the glass we do indeed have a brown rum. However I think I would possibly describe it as a golden brown with a yellow/orange hue. To me, it's "a hint of home, with some much more mature (and less lighter-fluid-esque), refined, spiced-rum-like flavours". It's a flavoured white or gold rum. Nothing Whiskey about it imho. Also, it doesn't reflect the few genuine brown siddiquis I've had (which, being honest, were horrible) The much respected and highly popular Simon Roffe is Penderyn Distillery’s new Director of Business Development. Penderyn Distillery are delighted to announce that they have partnered with the California-based, Siddiqui Rums Corporation. This exciting new partnership means that Penderyn will produce Siddiqui Rums for international markets.

Other Master winners included Destilería Serrallés, Don Q Oak Barrel Spiced Rum, 45% ABV and Naud Distillery, Hidden Loot Dark Reserve, 41% ABV. To be clear, this tastes absolutely nothing like Whisk(e)y. I dislike Whiskey, but love this stuff. I grew up partially in the Middle East and Siddiqui was the only spirit I could get (most of the time). We generally had the white stuff, whereas I've only tried Penderyn's brown. The only information I have been able to find on Siddiqui Brown Rum is that it is aged in American Oak and is an aged version of their white rum. Quite how long it is aged is I don’t know. Neither can I find any information on their white rum.

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Vok is one of Australia’s largest beverage companies. The Inner Circle Cask Strength rum weighs in at an incredible 75.9% ABV. It offers up powerful aromas of caramel and molasses, along with dried fruit notes of raisins, apples and prunes, stone fruit and orange zest. There are spice notes of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove, along with some dark chocolate and walnut. Nosing Siddiqui Brown Rum I am hit by a lot of oak and smoke. It’s very woody but not terribly “spicy”. I’m not getting a lot of vanilla its more an old smell. I’m wondering about oak staves being used and perhaps some added sugar or glycerin. It smells old but has a strange smoky/sweetness to it.

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