One rum down, three more to go in my quest to complete the entire line of rums from Celebration Distillation. I had planned to do the entire line before the end of August, but that’s beginning to look a tad unlikely. So good news for the New Orleans-o-philes: the August Spotlight will continue to shine [...]
Rum Reviews
As you and I continue our August Spotlight on Old New Orleans Rum, we come to the first product in their line of offerings, the Old New Orleans Crystal Rum. I say first because I have to start somewhere; and after the distillery tour, why not start with the most basic of any company’s rum: [...]
OK, so maybe I’m a little crazy for trying to squeeze in a rum review the day before I start my Tales of the Cocktail adventure. I’ve been called worse. Sometimes though, there’s just a rum that calls to you…that sits there on your shelf, taunting you, flirting with you with it’s curvy bottle and [...]
A few years ago, I was a rum neophyte. I was a babe in the rummy wilderness, knowing only that I had tasted good rum, and I wanted to taste more. My collection? What collection? I probably had about 3 or 4 bottles of rum…mostly consisting of 2 or 3 bottles from St. Lucia and [...]
A few weeks ago, your faithful narrator was contacted by representatives of Depaz about his interest in some samples, with the possibility of a review of these alleged samples obviously the goal of such provisions. I received those samples, I sampled the…um…samples, and I even used them in my most recent Mixology Monday entry.In that [...]
Since I started down this adventurous path of rum blogging several months ago, a goodly number of people have asked me, “Why, Dood? Why do you blog about rum?” It’s a fair question. I think I started for two reasons: 1. It’s fun and 2. Because occasionally you can get free stuff. So imagine my [...]
This week found me home alone, which is generally not a good thing. Not that I can’t take care of myself or that I’m a threat to burn down the house or anything like that (Mrs. Dood usually hides matches and other dangerous items before leaving), but if I’m left to my own devices with [...]