Castries Peanut Rum Cream...

[RumBarPhilly]

...is wonderful! I've finally got to try it, as I met David and Clyde, the CEO and president of Castries yesterday.

Thanks to a suggestion from Scotte, I just HAD to try it. It opens with sweet cream and spices, then at mid-palate the flavor of the St. Lucian rum hits you. The finish, filled with peanuts (not like peanut butter) is very satisfying. The taste stays on your palate for about 3-4 minutes after a sip, amazing!

David and Clyde are really great guys, and I wish them the best of luck with their product. I think they've got the right idea with their marketing approach... replace Baileys! Every bar should have Castries on their shelf instead of the rancid Baileys. (Okay, I hate whiskeys)

[Scottes]

I really did like that stuff a lot. A bunch of us finished the bottle at a rum tasting I did, and it was a hit with at least 6 of the 8 people who tried it. Nice stuff, unique, and very well made.

And it's unexpected. Peanut. Rum. Cream. What's up with that combination? It really makes you wonder... until you taste it. Delicious.


Now I've got to get my hands on another bottle...

[Edward Hamilton]

I'm glad to hear you met David and Clyde. Castries rum cream is based on a traditional island recipe, another of those things that have taken a long time to get from the islands to the US.

[RumBarPhilly]

I'm glad to hear you met David and Clyde. Castries rum cream is based on a traditional island recipe, another of those things that have taken a long time to get from the islands to the US.

Yea, they said they picked St. Lucia to make their rum because they were currently making a rum called Nuts and Rum which actually had chunks of peanuts IN the rum. They said that rum was their cro-magnon man to Castries homosapient.

[RobertBurr]

After a recent tasting competition event in Ybor city, my son Robert and Ian Burrell from London were playing around with the rum creme and other flavored rums. Their impromptu mad-scientist-inspired combination of Santa Teresa Araku Coffee Liqueur and Castries Peanut Creme was a delight.

[RumBarPhilly]

After a recent tasting competition event in Ybor city, my son Robert and Ian Burrell from London were playing around with the rum creme and other flavored rums. Their impromptu mad-scientist-inspired combination of Santa Teresa Araku Coffee Liqueur and Castries Peanut Creme was a delight.

Its so mixable, you can about mix it with spit, and it'll still be good! Were doing it with Montecristo Premium, Godiva, and Buttershots. Its GOOOOOD....

[Dood]

Yea, they said they picked St. Lucia to make their rum because they were currently making a rum called Nuts and Rum which actually had chunks of peanuts IN the rum. They said that rum was their cro-magnon man to Castries homosapient.

Well now I'll absolutely have to get some of this. My wife and I have already worked through the 2 bottles of Nutz-n-Rum that we brought back from our honeymoon and 1 of 2 bottles we've had other couples bring back to us on their cruises. We love it.

My wife makes a drink called a Peter Pan that is wonderful with it. Something she picked up from the bartenders at Sandals Regency St. Lucia.

[Edward Hamilton]

In addition to Nutz-n-Rum jfrom St Lucia, in Antigua there's Nut Power. I'm surprised how long it took these peanut flavored spirits to be exported.

[Edward Hamilton]

Here's another drink suggestion for Castries Rum Cream from Cocktail Times (http://www.cocktailtimes.com//brandy/castries_eggnog.shtml).

[RumBarPhilly]

Here's another drink suggestion for Castries Rum Cream from Cocktail Times (http://www.cocktailtimes.com//brandy/castries_eggnog.shtml).

Wow that sounds good. Im actually making an egg nog tonight, too bad Ive only got a third of the bottle of Castries left (plus its at the bar, and were all close up shop for the holidays)

[primate77]

I am sitting here in Central Missouri (Lake of the Ozarks). I stopped on my way into town here to stock up on groceries for the week at the Hy-Vee grocery store. They have a liquor department. I walked in, looking for Fat Tire beer, which I knew they had.

I took a gander down the rum aisle, with literally no expectations. Something caught my eye! They have Castries!!!! I've not seen it any place else, and never expected at this point I would find it, and there it is, in a grocery store liquor aisle!!!

I HAD to try it! $27 was the price (not sure if that is good, high or average). I plunked the money down. Three days later, half the bottle is gone (and I am NOT sharing it with friends)!!!

[Scottes]

I shared my first bottle. I doubt that I'll shared my second. Great stuff.

[RumBarPhilly]

Got to meet up with Dave and Clyde, the collaborators of Castries this weekend in NY. It seems they're getting a lot of media attention for their product.

Castries has quickly crept into my "RUM RANKINGS" (Top 50 rums sold at the bar [btls gone through]) and it is in the top 10 of rums not featured in any cocktail.

Times are a changin'! Soon... Baileys will be gone... Castries will stand out!

[Joe Riley]

Tasty, tasty, tasty. Happy to be selling it.

[Ben]

Picked up a bottle in my recent trip to Boston (at Charles Street Liquors) and opened it with the family at Christmas.

Best rum cream I tasted. That's not saying a lot though because the only other rum cream I had was Sangster's.

Almost everyone liked it. I would drink it very cold neat or with ice, it did not go down well with coffee. One has to love peanuts, because it is the major taste in the drink.

Would still definitely recommend it. Nice bottle on top of it. Great way to end a rum flight as we did.

[Edward Hamilton]

I would drink it very cold neat or with ice, it did not go down well with coffee.
I've tried Castries Rum Cream a couple of times in coffee and was surprised that I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.

[Rumpelteazer]

I'm not a coffee drinker, but my wife is and she had similar issues with Castries and coffee. Perhaps its kind of like a marriage between two hard-headed people, the strong coffee and peanut flavors clash and there's no room for compromise.

As for Castries straight, most of our friends have loved it the first time, but after that find it a overly strong-flavored and sweet unless cut with some seltzer or something.

[Sparticus]

Would love to try some of this Castries in the west suburbs of Chicago if anyone knows where to find it. Internet is an option also with any leads.

[Michael]

DrinkupNY (http://www.DrinkUpNY.com/Castries_p/s0649.htm) has it in stock.