I’ve been debating what to post next. I haven’t sat down to do any reviews lately, but it’s obviously not for any lack of spirits. I’ve just been rather busy lately, and doing a full review of a rum or a restaurant requires sitting down with the intention of doing so and spending the next [...]
Rum
A friend of mine brews his own beer. He does a really good job of it too, the beer he’s brought up for me to try has always been easy to drink, with lots of different flavors. I’m rather fond of his apple-cinnamon beer to be quite honest, and some day I’ll have to do [...]
I’ve added a note and made a correction on my most recent review of Ron Zacapa Centenario. When I first published the review, I stated that the rum was made from molasses. This was an error. The rum is actually made from the “sugar cane honey”, or freshly squeezed juice of sugar cane, and not [...]
When most people think of rum, they think of the islands of the Caribbean. The images of Jamaica, Barbados, Cuba, and Puerto Rico all swirl about in the mind’s eye. The average imbiber probably immediately thinks of names like “Bacardi”, “Captain Morgan’s”, and “Meyer’s”…possibly even “Mt. Gay”. If you asked the run-of-the-mill drinker what the [...]
Sometimes I look at various things my friends have wrought and I am left dumbfounded….or on the floor, grabbing my stomach laughing….or on the ground in a parking lot.This time it’s the floor, laughing…with some dumbfounded mixed in, as my friend, “Saxman”, sent me this:Update: It occurs to me that I’ve actually seen this before, [...]