10 Rums Secretly Loaded With Sugar (And 8 That Are Actually Pure)

Some of the most recommended rums on the shelf have sugar stirred into them after they leave the barrel. It is legal in a lot of places, it costs the producer almost nothing, and it makes young spirit taste older than it is. Two Nordic government laboratories have been measuring it for years and publishing the numbers, so in this one I go through the ten worst offenders in that data, and then the eight bottles that came back clean. The bottle at number one carries eight times the sugar of the one I open with, and it is not the expensive one. It is probably in your cabinet. Tell me in the comments which of these you have poured neat, and whether you guessed number one before I said it. I read all of them.