Category: Cane spirits (rum)

Bacardi National Daiquiri Day Bar Crawl 2016 - Cafe Henri

Inside Bacardi’s National Daiquiri Day Bar Crawl at Tales of the Cocktail 2016

The powers that be (whoever they are—curiously, no one ever seems to…

Events, rum, Tales of the Cocktail
Luca Gargano, When Is a Rum Not a Rum session at Tales of the Cocktail 2016

OMG!  O.F.T.D. and Other Rummy Happenings at Tales of the Cocktail 2016

Mrs. Wonk, ever-perceptive as she is, spotted it first. We’d just taken…

Events, rum, Tales of the Cocktail
Plantation Rum OFTD Overproof

Plantation Launches New Blend – O.F.T.D. Overproof (Old Fashioned Traditional Dark)

In the lead up to (a particularly rum focused) Tales of the…

News, rum
Stalking the TTB - May - June 2016

Stalking the TTB:  Upcoming U.S. rum releases from Plantation, Hamilton, Samaroli, El Dorado, Rational Spirits and more!  May and June 2016

Continuing my episodic pillaging of the TTB site for new releases, the…

rum, TTB
LS Mea Culpa

E Pluribus Unum: Lost Spirits Confounds Expectations Yet Again

It takes a brave–and possibly mad–person to name their latest project “Mea…

Lost Spirits, rum
Smuggler's Cove book

Navigating Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki, by Martin and Rebecca Cate

A recent trend in the cocktail world is for high-end, world class…

book review, general tiki, rum
Justin Wojslaw, Diller Room, Seattle

At the Bar with Seattle’s Tiki Warrior Justin Wojslaw

The Tiki revival movement is clearly having its moment these days, having…

Bars, general tiki, rum, tiki recipes

Stalking the TTB:  Upcoming U.S. rum releases from Lemon Hart, Angostura, Diplomatico, Mount Gay, Foursquare, and more!  January to April 2016

Another post for the rum wonks out there… On the heels of…

rum, TTB