Rum

  • Bacardi Teaches Us How To Celebrate National Rum Day

    National Rum Day has finally arrived! In order to make sure we take advantage of everyone’s favorite tiki-fueled holiday, we asked our friends at BACARDÍ for a little guidance. Luckily, they sent A-K Hada, North…

  • What To Drink On National Rum Day

    National Rum Day arrives on August 16 in the midst of the Third Rum Revolution. The sugarcane-based spirit hasn’t been this popular since tiki drinks took the world by storm, but this time it’s sipping…

  • About Ageing Rum PART 2: “The Mystique Of Wood”

    The beauty of the universe is its relativity and that’s why nature is not always precise. If you pick two apples from the same tree they will not have the same shape, they will have…

  • About Ageing Rum PART 1: “Why More Is Not Always Better”

    Ancient Greek philosophy already taught us about the balance in life and nature.  Human health needs exercise as much as it needs enough rest; cooking delicious dishes requires taste equilibrium; building fast cars means adding…

  • Rum: The Distillation Puzzle

    If Mr. Aeneas Coffey, the inventor of the first patented two column continuous still in 1830, would have known that almost two hundred years later there would be more than eighteen different models of stills…

  • Rum: Fermentation Craziness

    What defines a high quality perfume? You  would probably respond: “what defines a good perfume is the length of essence persistence on our skin”. That’s right! But what makes the perfume stay on your skin longer?…

  • Rum: The Sugarcane Journey

    In many of my masterclasses the consumers ask which is the best sugarcane. People love to do that! But the answer is not that simple. There is no such thing as the best sugarcane; only…

  • The Three Rum Revolutions And The Beginnings Of Rum

    Rum as a category is possibly the most difficult to understand. One of the reasons could be the fact that, at the moment, there is no existing international law other than Rum must be produced…

  • Ron Abuelo Finish Collection Will Have You Trading Whisky For Rum

    “We call this historical moment the third rum revolution,” explains Cristobal Srokowski, Ron Abuelo’s Global Brand Ambassador. Cristobal knows more about Rum than anyone I’ve ever met and he’s been with the Panamanian brand since…

  • Bottle Breakdown: Puerto Rico, Age, And The Treaty of Paris, The History Of Don Q Gran Reserva XO

    “Life gets better with age, and so does rum!” says Master Blender Jaiker Soto about why Don Q adds small quantities of solera Rums aged up to 55 years to their Gran Reserva XO. The…