Recommendations for a good rum to spike apple cider with?

[Jester]

Also, a friend of mine has a bottle of butterscotch schnapps that she says is really good with apple cider, turns it into a sort of caramel apple taste, so she is going to bring that for us to experiment with!

Oh, HELL yeah!

[Teysa]

These suggestions all sound pretty yummy. *invites herself to Maggie's house*

[Kaylyn]

I'm not familiar with mixing rum (hubs prefers to drink it straight) but some variation of spiced rum seems like it would be best. Captain Morgan has already been mentioned; they make a black spiced rum that has a strong chocolate taste to it, so that could be interesting. I've never tried their Tattoo so I can't judge how well that would mix.

Personally, a favorite around here is Kraken spiced rum. Again, I haven't tried to mix it, but I think it would mix very well with cider.

[mathnerd]

Also, a friend of mine has a bottle of butterscotch schnapps that she says is really good with apple cider, turns it into a sort of caramel apple taste, so she is going to bring that for us to experiment with!

Now that sounds heavenly!

[DeltaSierra]

You can't go wrong with Captain Morgan, but I really like the idea of butterscotch schnapps too!

[Jester]

I've never tried their Tattoo so I can't judge how well that would mix.

Personally, a favorite around here is Kraken spiced rum. Again, I haven't tried to mix it, but I think it would mix very well with cider.

I've already mentioned my love of Kilo Kai as a spiced rum, so I won't go there again.

I am not find of Kraken, but that's my taste. Yours may vary.

That being said, Tattoo is liquid shit. It was Captain Morgan's answer to Jagermeister, and it's horrible. I wouldn't spike anything but a toilet with it.

[Kaylyn]

Tattoo is liquid shit. It was Captain Morgan's answer to Jagermeister, and it's horrible. I wouldn't spike anything but a toilet with it.

Noted. I had thought about trying it since it was fairly cheap, but their black spiced rum is the same price and delicious, so I won't bother. Maybe taste it if someone else has some, but I won't waste my money.

[Jester]

Captain Black isn't my favorite, but it's decent for what it is. And it's not something that I would describe as liquid shit.

Tattoo is a waste of time, money, alcohol, labor, glass, space, and anything else you can think of. I'd call it my least favorite rum, but it's not a rum, simply a really bad liqueur.

Liquid. Shit.

[MaggieTheCat]

I ended up getting a bottle of Captain Morgan...I wanted to try making vanilla extract with vanilla beans and rum and thought a spiced vanilla extract would be interesting, so I decided just to go with the original. The extract is brewing nicely in my pantry and I can set out the bottle of Captain for my party, so I'd call that a win-win.

[DeltaSierra]

I ended up getting a bottle of Captain Morgan...I wanted to try making vanilla extract with vanilla beans and rum and thought a spiced vanilla extract would be interesting, so I decided just to go with the original. The extract is brewing nicely in my pantry and I can set out the bottle of Captain for my party, so I'd call that a win-win.

Very cool - let us know how the extract turns out.