Would Bacardi Select qualify as dark rum?

I have a drink recipe that calls for dark rum. Is Bacardi Select going to work or do I need something else? Does dark rum taste different?|||No one body governs the labeling of rum so people can call it whatever they want. Rum gets darker and darker the longer time it spends in the barrel. **Every dark rum was once a white rum, then a light rum, then a gold rum before finally being dark.** There are some other types too like spiced rums or flavored rums but the color is almost always denoted by how long it was in the barrel.


Places like Jamacia, Barbados, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic have a standard that they follow when naming the rum and it's based purely on the color. If you have a light rum, it's light. Dark is dark etc.


All that information aside, there is no body that governs the labeling of rum. Gosling's wants to call their dark rum black rum then nobody's going to stop them.


Bacardi calls their select rum a dark amber so that's what it is. But a rum taster would tell you that it's just another dark rum|||The best answer is slightly misleading. For a start, a lot of the colouring in mass-market brands like Bacardi Select comes from the addition of spirit caramel E150. Also, in the context of a cocktail recipe, dark rum would mean something like Myers or Goslings. Bacardi Select is not true dark rum

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|||A good dark rum in the bacardi line is bacardi black....Myers, Mount Gay are great dark rums.. Also try the Cruzan line of Rums....they are wonderful