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Inside A Rum Wonderland - Liverpool's Main Rum Company
Visiting The Main Rum Company in Liverpool is a golden ticket experience for rum geeks. While E&A Scheer, Main Rum’s parent company, supplies brands…
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The Fallacy of "White Rum"
May 23
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Esters, Volatile Compounds, and Congeners - What's the Difference?
Mar 6
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Esters, Volatile Compounds, and Congeners - What's the Difference?
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Appleton Estate's "Legend" 17-Year Rum
May 12
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Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Gold/Black Aren't Aged
Apr 5
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Selected Readings for National Mai Tai Day 2023
So it is that today, August 30th, is National Mai Tai Day. Or perhaps it’s International Mai Tai Day for those with a global perspective. We don’t…
Aug 30
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Selected Readings for National Mai Tai Day 2023
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German Rum Festival 2023 in Photos
Most of my European travel itineraries these days involve a rum festival — shocking, right? This past July was no exception, with the German Rum…
Aug 13
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A Moment in the Limelight
Winning a Spirited Award
Aug 9
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A Moment in the Limelight
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Everything You Think You Know About Royal Navy Rum Is (Probably) Wrong
Selected Readings for Black Tot Day 2023
Jul 31
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Réunion Rendezvous
Outside of locales where French is the local tongue, Réunion Island rum gets little fanfare from enthusiasts obsessed with the latest limited editions…
Jul 3
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Caribbean Rum Producers Elect a New Leader - Margaret Monplaisir of St. Lucia Distillers
One of the many hats I wear is Community Envoy for the West Indies Rum and Spirits Producers’ Association, better known as WIRSPA. The organization…
Jun 24
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Liverpool's Main Rum Revealed - The Video
Back in the day — OK, 2017 — very few people had heard of The Main Rum Company, the Liverpool company that supplies most of the rum world’s independent…
Jun 15
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French Rum - Below the Waterline
Something that became clear while writing Modern Caribbean Rum is just how siloed the global rum industry is. It’s not so surprising since the largest…
Jun 4
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The Fallacy of "White Rum"
We can overlook that “white rum” is actually clear rather than white and accept that the term refers to rum with little or no coloring. The bedrock…
May 23
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