Spirit Specs
- Small Batch Distiller’s Choice Aged Rum
- Base: Hard Truth White Rum, aged in new barrels
- Bottled at 90 proof (45% ABV)
- Currently unavailable
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White Oak Reserve Rum
Silver medal, 2019 American Distilling Institute Craft Spirits Awards
Hard Truth White Oak Reserve Rum features our white rum rested in new, toasted and charred American white oak barrels, where complex and smoky caramel and butterscotch flavors meld beautifully with the fruit and sweet molasses notes of the base rum.
This Hard Truth is best served: in an old fashioned with sugar and orange bitters; in eggnog or cream with with orange and nutmeg.
Appearance
Clear cedarAroma
Clove, rye,oak, and brown sugarTaste
Rich oak, smooth caramel, and rye spicinessFinish
Dry with hints of butterscotch and charred oak
Though it’s produced in Indiana, this single-barrel rum was made by fermenting the molasses and cane sugar base with a Caribbean yeast strain. It’s an interesting concept, intended to add subtle fruitiness. Look for a honey hue and a mild aroma that suggests allspice and oak. The first sips lead with drying oak but finish with mellower caramel, brown sugar and spice, plus a toasty hint of pecan.
Kara Newman, Liquor.com
Hot Buttered Rum
1 oz. Hard Truth Toasted Coconut Rum
1 oz. Hard Truth White Oak Reserve Rum
¾ c. Boiling water
2 Tbs. Spiced butter*
Whipped cream and nutmeg, to garnish
Pomegranate Paloma
2 oz. Hard Truth White Oak Reserve Rum
1 oz. Pomegranate juice
1 oz. Grapefruit juice
½ oz. Freshly-squeezed lemon juice
1 oz. Ginger syrup
Soda water, to top
Pomegranate arils and lime wedge, to garnish
Aged Rum Old Fashioned
2 oz. Hard Truth White Oak Reserve Rum
1 Sugar cube
3 dashes Orange bitters
1 dash Angostura bitters
Luxardo cherry and orange peel, to garnish
White Gold
2 oz. Hard Truth White Oak Reserve Rum
1 oz. Honey simple syrup
½ oz. Triple sec
1 oz. Lemon juice
Dehydrated lemon slice, to garnish