Rum Topped Blend Recommendations....

[Fiddlepiper]

I love rum.

I love tobacco.

What recommendations are there for a perfect marriage of the two?

GH Jamaican flake is the only rum topped I’ve tried and it leaves me fairly cold.

Any help gratefully received.

 

[alaskanpiper]

For Rum casings, Dan Salty Dogs. For light Rum topping KBV Festivus Pudding, and if you like em a little sweeter(more aro-like), Sutliff Barbados Plantation.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Watch City Slices and Black Frigate

 

[musicman]

My favorite Rum topped blends:
Salty Dogs
Gl Pease Windjammer
Gl Pease Sextant
Black Frigate
G and H Rum Flake

@alaskanpiper mentioned Festivus Pudding. I love the stuff, but it's a Christmas release from Ken Byron Ventures and it'll be impossible to find most of the year. All the blends I listed above are regularly available (with the exception of Rum Flake, which is supposed to become more regularly available in the near future).

 

[alaskanpiper]

My favorite Rum topped blends:
Salty Dogs
Gl Pease Windjammer
Gl Pease Sextant
Black Frigate
G and H Rum Flake

@alaskanpiper mentioned Festivus Pudding. I love the stuff, but it's a Christmas release from Ken Byron Ventures and it'll be impossible to find most of the year. All the blends I listed above are regularly available (with the exception of Rum Flake, which is supposed to become more regularly available in the near future).

A fair point, I just like it a lot, hahaha.

 

[Chasing Embers]

A fair point, I just like it a lot, hahaha.

In that case, Double Barrel

 

[workman]

It is my understanding that McConnell's Scottish Cake (and Flake) and Fribourg & Treyer's Special Brown Flake are all topped with rum. They do not taste like rum at all.

 

[ofafeather]

GLP Navigator is topped with Rum but again may not taste like it. Great blend though.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Gl Pease Windjammer

AKA : Haddo's Flake?

 

[musicman]

AKA : Haddo's Flake?

Lol! Fwiw, I found it to be different from Haddo’s. The clearest evidence I have for this is that I just tried both for the first time in the past couple of months. The Windjammer has become a rotation regular whereas I haven’t even had a second bowl of the Haddo’s ( I’ll get around to trying it again soon, but I did not like the first bowl I tried at all).

 

[pip01]

Sutliff Buttered Rum is pretty good.

 

[lochinvar]

Traditional rum flakes and plugs
-F&T Special Brown Flake
-Salty Dogs
-GH Rum Flake
-C&D Blockade Runner
-C&D Speakeasy

Punch you in the mouth rum and rum flavoring blends
-Wilke Rumcake
-Wilke 515

 

[JimInks]

I'll list easy to find blends where you easily notice the rum. I don't think "faint" will cut it for the OP.
Wilke Rumcake
Wilke #515 (Basil Rathbone's tobacco of choice)
Savinelli Jupiter
Sutliff Buttered Rum
Sutliff Queen Anne's Revenge ( the bulk version of the discontinued Barbados Plantation)
Smoker's Pride Rum, a very reasonable priced blend worth smoking for the rum topping
GLP Windjammer
G&H Rum Flake (not as easy to find as others on this list)
Watch City Cap'n Boomer's
Watch City Stubb's Pipe (also has a little cocoa in the topping)
C&D Redburn
C&D Repose

 

[crawdad]

Wilke Rumcake
Sutliff Spiced Rum (if you like blackstrap rum)

 

[rushx9]

I love rum topped mixtures and Navy flakes, but the only blends I've smoked that really taste like rum are Sutliff Queen Anne's Revenge / Barbados Plantation, and MacBaren Plumcake.
Fair warning, both come pretty wet with the former being in full-on gooper territory.

 

[simong]

Rum Twist by Gawith Hoggarth's would be my recommendation. If you want to go further treat your bowls with a strong rum. I started doing this with old estate pipes I'd bought off eBay. After a thorough cleaning of the shank & bowl with rum soaked pipe cleaners etc I'd soak cotton wool bowls in rum, stuff them into the chamber & leave them for 3-4 days. This gives your pipes a wonderful 'rum ghost' that'll last a good while. Woods's Old Navy Rum works best for me, the higher ABV seems to get into the wood better. A tot of rum while you're smoking is always a pleasure of course, so don't forget that. Rum twist in a rum infused bowl, whilst drinking rum. Yes, that should do it!?

 

[johng99]

GH&Co Rum Flake and Rum Twist are my favorites.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Curious as to whether any of the GH rum flake smokers would add Peterson’s Hyde Park to this list or not?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Curious as to whether any of the GH rum flake smokers would add Peterson’s Hyde Park to this list or not?

Hyde Park is less rum more lakeland.

 

[paulfg]

I'll list easy to find blends where you easily notice the rum. I don't think "faint" will cut it for the OP.
Wilke Rumcake
Wilke #515 (Basil Rathbone's tobacco of choice)
Savinelli Jupiter
Sutliff Buttered Rum
Sutliff Queen Anne's Revenge ( the bulk version of the discontinued Barbados Plantation)
Smoker's Pride Rum, a very reasonable priced blend worth smoking for the rum topping
GLP Windjammer
G&H Rum Flake (not as easy to find as others on this list)
Watch City Cap'n Boomer's
Watch City Stubb's Pipe (also has a little cocoa in the topping)
C&D Redburn
C&D Repose

he is in the UK Jim so GH Rum Flake may actually be the easiest to find