Langs Banana Flavoured Rum, 70cl

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You get entered into our latest competition! This is a good thing too because Langs Rum from Jamaica has put together quite the prize. Let’s take a look: In all honesty I tend not to focus too much on the history of rum. I’m more about the here and now. So I’m not going to worry much about it.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Insofar as is permitted by law, the promoter, its agents, employees, and/or representatives shall in no circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate any entrant who participates in the competition and/or the winner who claim(s) the prize for any loss, damage, personal injury or death whatsoever and howsoever caused, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, for any direct, indirect or consequential losses arising out of or in connection with their participation in this competition, any failure or delays or postponements or cancellations in making the appropriate travel and accommodation arrangements as a result of the winner (including in relation to their guests) taking up the prize (where applicable), except where it is caused by the negligence of the promoter, its agents, employees, and/or authorised representatives. competition entrants’ statutory rights are not affected. Basically the nose is sweet and synthetic. The nearest this rum has been to a banana is when the sugar cane used to produce it was growing the cane fields! Fake foam bananas and Banana Toffo’s. No trace of anything remotely rummy. This could be flavoured vodka and no-one would be any the wiser. Any trace of “Jamaican Rum” has gone for a Burton. So let us instead take a look at the present day Langs Banana Jamaican Rum and see what its all about.Langs Jamaican Rum was originally imported in 1861 when it was brought to Glasgow from the Caribbean. The original recipe for Lang Bros Banana Rum was showcased at the Edinburgh international Exhibition in 1886. The new rum combines natural ripe banana with toffee and offers tropical fruits and earthy notes on the nose. I guess I probably sound like a bit of a snob but it is worrying how increasingly common it is for people to proclaim themselves as “Rum”, “Gin” or even (god bless them) “Vodka” drinkers yet they drink Spiced Rum, Strawberry Flavoured Gin and Lychee and Dragonberry Vodka. It’s a farce really and entirely of each categories own making.

Ian Macleod Distillers has expanded its Langs Rum range with the launch of two new expressions: Mango and Ginger, and Pineapple. Langs Mango and Ginger and Langs Pineapple join the banana-flavoured bottling in the rum rangeLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent molestie leo elit. Nulla non blandit diam, a mattis mi. Sed eget urna augue. Fusce at quam vitae eros eleifend rutrum. Proin ornare risus est, at aliquam quam consequat et. Ut sed leo in nisi elementum vestibulum ut sit amet sem. Aenean placerat mi elit, id bibendum quam mattis vel. Donec hendrerit dolor ante, ac pellentesque augue vestibulum eu. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. ELIGIBILITY : This competition is only open to individuals who are 18 years or older and resident of the United Kingdom. Ineligible entries (howsoever received) will be discarded . The competition is not open to any employees (and their immediate family) of the promoter or any of its associated companies. The promoter reserves the right to verify the validity of entries and entrants (including an entrant’s identity, age and place of residence) at any time and reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who, or any entry which, it believes has breached any of these terms, tampered with the entry process or engaged in any unlawful or improper conduct which may undermine the fair and proper conduct of this competition.

Langs Banana Jamaican Rum smells of Banana Toffo’s that have been dipped in sugar syrup, mixed with Candy Floss and those Fake Foam Bananas and then sprinkled with icing sugar. BUT…………I really don’t want to feel like I’ve been dipped upside down in a massive vat of whatever the “essence” used to create those flavours was kept in…….. THE PROMOTER : The promoter is Atom Supplies Limited (company register number 03193057), trading as Master of Malt ( MoM ) and having its registered office at Unit 1 Ton Business Park, 2-8 Morley Road, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1RA, United Kingdom. Quisque hendrerit imperdiet imperdiet. Nullam dignissim congue mi vitae gravida. Cras imperdiet condimentum sem id molestie. Cras rhoncus nisi et consectetur gravida. Etiam laoreet mauris eu porta interdum. Vestibulum ullamcorper molestie ipsum, et rhoncus turpis maximus vel. In elit eros, auctor eget magna pulvinar, rutrum hendrerit nibh. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nulla quis luctus risus, et finibus tortor. Vivamus suscipit fermentum leo, eu varius nisi laoreet quis. Maecenas bibendum id nisi in molestie. Quisque placerat, mauris a lobortis iaculis, odio nibh dictum nunc, et commodo metus eros quis diam. Nunc vitae elit placerat, mollis nibh id, eleifend nunc. Pellentesque sit amet ante commodo, interdum velit non, rhoncus augue. WINNER: The promoter will choose 1 winner at random out of all qualifying entries. The selection of the winner will be at the promoter’s absolute discretion and will be final. No correspondence or discussion will be entered into.I tested this through my hydrometer to see how much of the “natural ripe banana with hints of toffee” was present in this bottling and found my hydrometer bobbing at around the 25% ABV mark. Suggesting that in this 37.5% ABV spirits there are around 40g/L of “additives”. Whilst this is no surprise in the Spiced/Flavoured rum world I had hoped for a much lower reading. Perhaps a sense of a more authentic product. Never mind. The very fact that this “rum” has produced two further variants in such a short space of time tells you all you need to know about the average “rum” drinker here in the UK. Basically a lot of more casual “rum” drinkers in the UK don’t actually know what rum tastes like. Partly because they just drink shit like this and think it’s “rum”. It’s tragic really. This is the type of garbage overly excited teenagers tell me “I’ve got to try” and at Rum Festivals.I usually just smile politely and thank them for their advice……. The Lang Brothers brand joined Ian Macleod Distillers’ portfolio in 2003 as part of the firm’s acquisition of Highland whisky distillery Glengoyne from Macallan owner Edrington. According to Ian Macleod, Langs Rum was no longer being sold by Edrington by that point.