They produce four types of rum: white, gold, dark, and spiced. During a recent tasting event, I got to try the first three along with some great cocktails made from them.
Both the white and gold rum have pretty clean aroma while the dark rum - which contained more sugar - had more of a coffee aroma. The dark rum had more of a caramel flavor and vanilla notes but all three rums were sweeter and smoother than most other 80-proofs, making it very easy to drink and great to use in cocktails albeit it lacks the complexity of aged rum. We'll have to try their aged rums in a few years.
The tasting was held at Caña Rum Bar in downtown LA and we tasted a great selection of rum cocktails made with Kōloa, starting from the Spark Plug, a version of Dark & Stormy that tasted lighter due to the Kōloa Dark and was very well balanced.
Cuban #2
Yet another good drink: Cloak & Dagger (Koloa Gold & Dark, lime, raw cane sugar)
Kōloa is currently available by special order through Hi-Time Wine Cellars at around $30.
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