This isn’t a rum-focused post, but since I’m spending so much of my formerly free time at the Mixoloseum Virtual Bar (or whatever Gabe is calling the chat room that is rapidly devouring my life), I figured I owed it a plug for the new weekly event: Thursday Night Drink Night.Join a collection of rag–tag [...]
Another month has come and gone, and once again I find myself staring at my calendar with “Write MxMo Entry” staring back at me. The kind folks over Bibulo.us have chosen this month’s theme to be 19th Century Cocktails. That being the case, I’ve chosen to write about the Rum Swizzle.While I know the topic [...]
The Old New Orleans Crystal and Amber reviews are in the can. As we enter month two of my one-month focus on Old New Orleans Rum, we move on to their third offering: Old New Orleans Cajun Spice Rum.Spiced rum (often referred to as just “spice” in the Islands) is one of the more common [...]
I’m a little tardy in posting this, but for those of you who couldn’t make it to the rum chat at Mixoloseum last week, the transcript has been edited, charcoal filtered, and rendered fit for human consumption. You can check it out at the Mixoloseum Blog. Thanks to Gabe for putting that together, it was [...]
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 [...]
My reputation as a Crushing Crusher of Rum precedes me. I’m not sure what that even means, but then again I think I’m the one who coined the phrase, so I guess it doesnt’ really matter.On Monday, August 25, the Mixoloseum will be hosting a chat focused on my favorite libation and yours, rum. The [...]
We all make mistakes, and anyone who knows me personally will tell you that I make enough for all of us. This is just a quick mea culpa on the Old New Orleans Crystal Rum review that I posted yesterday. During my distillery tour I had erroneously written down that the Cyrstal rum was barreled [...]