If you are having a rum time, then it surely must be with a glass of rum- an age old accompaniment for many a culture, occasion, event, and of course society. As a patron of rum, by keeping track of the brands and labels, it will pep you up to know that spiced rum is the new thing.
If you ask me whether “Are you serious about spiced rum?”, I would say “Yes”. True, as rum is complete in itself, you might wonder as to what more is required to spice it up.
Let’s explore how spiced rum offers variety in “gallons” to rum lovers around the world.
Spiced rums contain flavors from spices, which make it the spirit of spice. Finding a wide range of uses from making cocktails to an additive in cooking, spiced rums are the new thing in the US market and, are fast gaining ground on the global base.
The spices for flavoring are extracted from the seeds, bark, dried fruit , leaf, bark or edible plants. The most common flavoring agents used in spiced rums are roots of ginger, seeds of allspice and vanilla, bark of cinnamon or cassia and buds of  cloves. Apart from these, to give your rum the fruity flavor, fruit extracts of mango, coffee, banana, pineapple, citrus, black currant cherry, mint, coconut and a few other tropical fruits give a dash of flavor, typically tropical.
Rum- cakes, rum-based cocktails, holiday treats make used of spiced Rum as a base ingredient. Rum creams blend the flavor of rum with that of dairy products to provide a rich, creamy base for many a dessert and other high-spirit drinks; declaring spiced rum as the new thing in the market.
The varied spiced and flavored rums, include Captain Morgan, Sailor Jerry, Pango, , Castries Peanut Rum Cream, Bacardi Limon and Dragonberry, Montecristo, Foursquare, Malibu Coconut Rum, Cruzan Mango and Coconut, Don Q Passion, Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, Crisma Rum Cream, Taylor's Velvet Falernum and Brinley's Gold Coffee, Key Lime, Vanilla, Mango and Coconut rums.
The widespread use and popularity of spiced rum is on high spirits, and this is not any high-spirited tall-talk but a serious fact about spiced Rum.

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