Category: Guides
this Island-by-Island guides you to the Caribbean's top destinations and escape the cold northern hemisphere for new year. Where island life and rum go hand-in-hand, find out where’s good for the rum lovers to revel in the festivities.
Rum, the sugarcane spirit has many myths and legends from pirates to how it's made. Here we unravel the mysteries and debunk to reveal the truth about the world's most diverse sprit. From sweetness to its origins, it's time to explore what's fact and what's fiction.
Did you know Christmas time is also rum season. Sugarcane grows across the tropics, so there’s harvest going on somewhere or just finishing. This festive season is the perfect time to enjoy the world’s most diverse spirit in tasty rum cocktails.
The Caribbean and Americas produce the most rum in the world. And, yet, over 100 countries who make rum. Each country defines how to make and market it's own rum. Here we'll delve into the different styles of rum available to you depending where you are in the world.
Rum distilling takes place in over 100 countries and 6 continents. This article breaks down how we grouped the regions into more manageable chunks for rum lovers to make it easier for us to understand. Explore the ever expanding world of rum and discover where it's made.
The history of rum is closely linked to geography, sugarcane, sugar production, and slavery. In this article we will expand on the general storytelling of rum history from east to west and add a little more context around rum's origin story.
Discover the 10 key steps to how rum is made. Where you make rum or source the raw materials to distill can influence what rum is made. This is when geography is important. In this article we start at the source, sugarcane, grown in the Tropics, and harvested on location.
Rum is a distilled spirit made from sugarcane. It can made using either fresh sugarcane juice, sugarcane honey/syrup, or molasses. About 90-95% of rum sold on the shelf is made from molasses. Sugarcane is an organic grass that originated in Asia. It grows in tropical climates, where the sugar industry emerged centuries ago. In the […]