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I was recommended to ask in this thread, my apologies if this isn't the best thread to ask this k ind of thing in. http://www.piratapgh.com/rum/ So I discovered that there's this place in Pittsburgh that looks pretty cool and it has a big rum bar. I like rum but I've only had a couple different kinds and it has been stuff like calico jack spiced rum. I'm wondering if anybody here would be able to take a glance at that list and point out any good rums to keep an eye out for, or at least point out any rums I should definitely avoid. A friend said to avoid any flor de cana due to the maker's horrible treatment of its employees. I know it's unreasonable to dump a list of some 200~ rums on people and go "what's good" so my apologies because I'm more or less doing exactly that  I'm just way out of my element here, I know I like rum but I don't know what brands are good and what brands aren't.
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pgroce posted:Seconding the suggestion to let your bartender guide you. I haven’t been to Pirata yet, but I’ve heard generally good things about their staff. Do you know how much the rum passport thing is? I tried checking their website but I couldn't find anything.
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pgroce posted:Rum passport's free, it's just a curated selection of rums in a cheap-ish booklet to give new rum drinkers a basic experience of what variations taste like what. (It's also a nice way to quickly decide on what you're drinking without staring at 200 bottles for 15 minutes.) You finish the passport and they give you a patch or something. Oh ok, I misunderstood. I thought it was like a "pay for 20 small samplings of rum" kinda thing where you'd purchase it and you'd be given samples of each one listed.
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It's been a year and a month since I last posted but I finally got to go to hidden harbor and man, the food was tad pricey but I think that's just expected with that kind of thing. I got to try out the rum barrel drink, that was pretty loving good. May's been stressing me out like crazy but there was something about that drink that just really made all the stress go away and I was just legitimately feeling a nice, warm calm feeling. I got their rum passport, didn't try any of the rums from it yet but I figure if I'm in squirrel hill again I can stop in and try some of the rums. I forget, I remember at some point someone told me that there is a particular brand of rum I should avoid because of workers rights violations or something along those lines. Anybody know what brand I'm talking about?
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