Post #411929 by Limbo Lizard on Mon, Oct 6, 2008 8:27 AM

For years, one of my cold weather warmer-upper drinks has been a spoon of blackstrap molasses in a mug of boiling water. I add a splash of milk and sometimes a slug of rum. My wife hates the taste of blackstrap molasses.
This Summer, I bought some of the Cruzan Blackstrap. Yes, that's definitely a pronounced blackstrap taste. Not subtle. Not nuanced. I liked it OK in a Corn and Oil, but it's not something you could sub for other rums, willy-nilly.
As a comparison experiment, I made a Corn and Oil with gold Puerto Rican rum and a dash of blackstrap molasses. It tasted just like the Cruzan Blackstrap drink. I decided that, in future, I'd just add my own molasses to drinks, if I wanted that flavor. You have more control over how much or little you want the molasses to stand out. You can also adjust the amount of Cruzan Blackstrap, to taste, but I'd rather not pay the premium price over the regular gold Cruzan, just to use it as a flavoring agent.