If I wanted to get started with rum, how would I do that? I guess it’s not too surprising that this is a question I field rather frequently. People find out that you run a rum blog, hang out in virtual communities like the Ministry of Rum Forums, attend rum conferences, and boast a personal [...]
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Somewhere along the way I seem to have completely lost my mind. While I’ve been participating in Mixology Monday – an online monthly cocktail party hosted by a different site each month – for over a year now, I’ve not yet had the moxie (lack of sanity?) to try and host one. Unfortunately for me, [...]
It’s Mixology Monday again, and this month’s topic was a tough one for me. I missed last month’s MxMo and swore I wouldn’t miss the May MxMo, hosted by Chuck Taggart over at the Gumbo Pages. Of course, when I made that plan I wasn’t considering the fact that on the eve of the deadline [...]
Tomorrow, May 12, Wayne Curtis will be dropping in at the Mixoloseum Chat Room to spend some time, well, chatting. You may remember Wayne as the author of …and a bottle of rum (one of my all-time favorite books about my all-time favorite spirit), as well as his many features for The Atlantic and a [...]
You would think that after a Mixoloseum Thursday Drink Night sponsored by Mount Gay Rum, I would have posted numerous cocktail recipes immediately following the event. I confess that I’ve been a bit remiss in taking so long to get to some, but finally, here is the first in a series of cocktails created at [...]
In the pantheon of great Tiki Drink Ingredients, one ingredient that cannot be overlooked is one of the more mysterious: Falernum. Perform a search for the definition of “falernum” online and you’re bound to come upon an avalanche of varying descriptions of flavors, spices, and origins. There are some basic things that can be agreed [...]
It actually went up last week, but I have a post up at the Mixoloseum Blog doing a mini-round-up of the rums from the Caribbean’s easternmost island, Barbados. It is by no means a comprehensive list of the rums that are made on the island, as there are actually quite a few from R.L. Seale, [...]