One of the things I really love about running this site is that I sometimes I get to be a little ahead of the curve as new rums come to market. You may not have heard of Ron Atlantico yet, but you should expect to start hearing about it a lot. One of the newest [...]
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This coming Thursday (November 20), for one night and one night only, you can join Gabriel of CocktailNerd.com and me for a real treat as we join the Mixoloseum’s Thursday Drink Night LIVE from Trader Vic’s on the Las Vegas Strip starting at 6pm Pacific Time!That’s right, this week Gabe and I will be mixing [...]
Mixology Monday bears down upon us once again. For this month’s musings on mixological mania, Doug from the Pegu Blog has selected a theme of “made from scratch.” A month requiring that the drink submitted use homemade ingredients of some sort? This month seemed like it would prove challenging.I don’t make a lot of my [...]
“Oregon” is not usually the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of rum. Usually the climes that pop into a person’s head are a tad warmer. Old Mill Gold Rum is a rum that has been “developed for the Pacific Northwest” by H. Malarkey Wall and his father before him.Technically this rum [...]
UK RumFest, a festival of all things rum, was hosted in the UK by the Rum Experience at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London last week. For its second year, the event billed as the world’s premier rum festival brought rum producers, enthusiasts, and fanatics together in London to sample, discuss, and then sample some [...]
UK RumFest is billed as Europe’s only festival to celebrate my favorite spirit. It’s a collection of rum producers, marketers, sellers, distributors, and consumers, all coming together in London to sample products and cocktails, listen to seminars on everything from the history of the spirit to matching it with chocolate, watch cocktail competitions, and just [...]
Wow, seriously? It’s been a year? I didn’t even prepare a speech or anything. It’s true, RumDood.com turns 1 year old today. It’s been a crazy year too. When I started this blog, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with it. My first post was about breaking both of my arms the [...]