If you were to ask a random person on the street where they thought the oldest operating distillery in the New World was, they would probably choose somewhere in the USA or Canada. Some, upon thinking about it, might come up with Mexico or Cuba…possibly Brazil. None of these people would be correct. Whiskey may [...]
I had originally planned to have a rum review posted for everyone some time in the middle of last week. Unfortunately for me, I managed to contract something called bubonic influenzebola death flu of dying, which first rendered me incapable of doing pretty much anything that didn’t involve lying motionless on the couch or in [...]
In my Fun With Infusions post a few months ago, I talked about my first few forays in to the world of creating homemade spice – aka homemade rum infusions. Since that time I’ve tinkered onward, still striving to find something I could make and say, “See that? See how good that is? That’s cause [...]
This may go down in history as the worst MXMO entry ever. Here at RumDood.com I like to make sure that “swinging for the fences” is always the goal…so if I’m going to be bad, I want to be really bad.This month’s MXMO topic is brandy.I’ll confess, I’m not nearly the brandy aficionado that I [...]
Sorry if things have been quiet around here lately…things at the office have been – what’s a stronger word than “hectic”?Anyway, I’ll have a new Mixology Monday submission on Monday, and in the meantime, I ran across this image in a conversation at the Ministry of Rum:Image Source: https://www.waytogoidaho.com/drincads/drincads.html
And here I’ll bet you thought I had forgotten all about rum reviews here. Pish posh. I know what keeps people coming to this site, and it ain’t my wit or good looks…both of which are currently on back-order, and I have been assured will be arriving within a month or two.It had been brought [...]
Well, I’m finally back from a week in Texas. As we do every other year, Mrs. Dood and I went to visit my family in San Antonio for Christmas.For this particular trip, we made a few extra stops along the way, including a visit to “Area 51” for Temptryst Rums: Daniel Watson’s lab. My brother, [...]