FNQ Rum Co Iridium - Australia, neat (recommended): bringing it back home, the bar manager tells me the owners of the distillery visit every now and then, and are eccentric but good people. The rum definitely has a unique flavour profile, with a hint of tapioca. Very much a dessert rum (that's right, a dessert rum). Gone too soon, like a few others I've tasted.

Nurse Dan's Small Batch - Australia, neat: This one's a little different, in that it's a colleague's home brew rum, and doesn't actually have a name. Most home brews I've tried in the past have been more like rocket fuel than drinking alcohol - typically because whoever made it was trying to make the strongest possible drink with no regard to taste. Dan, on the other hand, has opted for quality. It's a fantastic rum, and if I could afford it, he could quit his day job, and I could become the alcoholic everyone thinks I am (joking, of course). The fact remains, though, I've found it to be a bloody beaut rum worthy of my little blog 10/10, Dan!

Stolen Smoked - New Zealand, neat: fragrant smell, very smoky taste (smoked with American hickory, with no oxygen involved). Puts a fire in your belly, and hairs on your chest.

Brix Spiced - neat. In the words of Owen Wilson: "Wow." It's like a cocktail in a single spirit form. The grapefruit and the macadamia nut really steal the show. As a native Australian nut, it's really fantastic to find it in an Australian rum.

Brix are an Australian distillery, who have brought out a banger agricole rhum. It's not as overwhelming in terms of grassy notes as other agricoles, so it's easy to drink. Perhaps a good rhum to introduce people to the wonders of agricole.

Saleyards Distillery: Capricorn Spiced - neat. It's a pretty standard spiced rum. It would certainly go well in a cocktail. There's plenty of rums that are better mixed, as opposed to having them neat, and this is one of them. It's certainly not a bad thing, though. I'll be curious to see how the distillery goes as time passes.