Rum gets a bad rap as the spirit you mix with Coke or bury under pineapple juice. But if you've ever enjoyed a whiskey tasting or swirled a glass of wine at a tasting room, you already have most of ...

A few simple, good quality ingredients and a well-crafted, mid-range rum can make cocktails such as a Mai Tai taste expensive. Although National Rum Month is coming to a close, it doesn’t mean we ...

All rum is ultimately a product of the sugar cane plant, but rum geeks know that there’s a dramatic difference between spirits produced at various stages of the plant’s harvesting. Most rum is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cocktail hour should go all the way through dessert. “In the Dominican Republic, rum is made from cooked molasses,” Angel Guzmán, ...

Great dark rum tends to be a lot cheaper than great bourbon or great scotch. That’s not to say there aren’t expensive rums on the shelf, it’s more that the incredibly wild whisk(e)y/spirits hype ...

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I don’t drink enough dark rum. That’s the main lesson I took away from this blind tasting. That being said, not all dark rums are created equal. Some are nuanced and well-aged in various oaks without ...

The spirits world is prone to hyperbole, to claims that companies are releasing ____ whiskey or ____ rum, finished in some novel way, something that has “never been done before” or may not be done ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rum’s bargain shelf is often treated like a dead zone: a place for anonymous mixers, plastic handles and bottles that exist mostly ...