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Is Bacardi Gold Dark Rum?/Is Gold Rum the Same as Dark Rum?
No, Bacardi Gold is not dark rum but rather gold rum.
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Best Bacardi Rum/Best Bacardi Rums/Best Bacardi Flavor/Best Bacardi Flavors
So what is the best Bacardi rum?
Hmmm…that’s a bit difficult to answer.
Aged for 17 years, Bacardí Gran Reserva Limitada, is the rarest and most luxurious Bacardi rum.
On each bottle of this rum, you will find its blending batch, bottling date, and bottle number in order to capture the specific moment that it achieved blending perfection.
Although Bacardí Gran Reserva Limitada is technically the best Bacardi rum, its price tag is prohibitive to the average consumer.
More affordably, a very good Bacardi sipping rum is Bacardí Reserva Ocho.
Bacardì Reserva Ocho is a gold rum that goes through the aging process for 8 years.
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For everyday usage, Bacardi Superior is ideal for mixing into cocktails where you don’t want an overpowering rum taste and would prefer a lighter flavor, such as in piña coladas or mojitos.
Which do you think is the best Bacardi rum? Please let me know in a comment below!
Gold Rum vs Dark Rum/Gold vs Dark Rum
To understand the difference between these two types of rum, let’s look at each of these rums individually.
Bacardi Black vs Gold: What is Gold Rum?
Gold rum, also known as amber rum, is a medium-bodied rum which has usually undergone aging.
These rums gain their dark color from aging in wooden barrels (usually the charred, white oak barrels that are the byproduct of Bourbon whiskey production).
They have more flavor and are stronger-tasting than white rum.
Gold rums can be thought of as being halfway between white rum and dark rum.
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Bacardi Gold vs Black: What Is Dark Rum?
Dark rum, also known as black rum, undergoes aging longer than any other type of rum.
The extended time it spends in wooden casks gives it a dark color and deep, smoky-sweet flavor.
The most common brands of dark rum are Gosling’s Black Seal Rum, the iconic spirit in a Dark & Stormy, and Myer’s Dark Rum (one of my favorites!), used in many tiki drinks.