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Rum

A collection of 11 posts

A bottle of Cheramie Rum Blanc with two tasting glasses.

Meet Cheramie Rum

Until recently, Louisiana’s largest distillery—Porchjam—specialized in grain-based vodka. But in 2018, they (literally) started tapping into the nearby annual cane harvest and distilling fermented fresh cane juice. Soon after, Cheramie Rum was born. While most of the juice from Louisiana’s sugarcane plants is processed into sugar,

Jamaican rum cake with glass of Pekut & Carwick rum

Tru Jamaica Rum Cake

The Caribbean islands are known for their rum-laced baked goods, and no wonder, since rum, molasses, and sugar were—and still are—locally produced and relatively abundant, making them ready ingredients for many local gastronomic delicacies, particularly desserts. What Is Rum Cake? Enslaved and indentured cooks throughout the Caribbean took

Flow chart tracing rum production from raw materials to production, distribution, and consumption.

Handbook of Rum

The world guide to rum

Where does rum come from? In his book, Rum, a Social and Sociable History, Ian Williams calls rum "the global spirit with its warm beating heart in the Caribbean." Dreamy metaphor aside, most rum styles are legacies of former Caribbean colonies, but that "warm beating heart"

Closeup of a coupe glass filled with a creamy cocktail.

Handbook of Rum

The Rum Flip Is Your New/Old Holiday Cocktail

The days are short, the weather’s cold By tavern fires tales are told. Some ask for dram when first come in. Others with flip and bounce begin. -from And a Bottle of Rum, by Wayne Curtis, excerpted from a 1704 almanac To the uninitiated, the season may be early

Screenshot of Merriam Webster rum definition.

How Did Rum Get Its Name?

In an effort to provide you with ALL the information about our products while still satisfying the inquisitive nerd within, we’re writing a rum handbook. You’ll be our guinea pig as we serve up the story of the spirit—from rum’s origin to its current standing in

A bottle of Pekut & Carwick Bulk Rum from Guyana in front of an oak barrel.

Bulk Rum

Raw material: molasses Origin: Guyana Distillation: blend of pot and column still Maturation: no age statement, blend of aged and unaged Proofing: lowered to bottling proof in used single malt and rum barrels Nose: sugar, light caramel, cake donut, slight nutty funk Palate: dry, mouthwarming, "chewy" maltiness, vanilla,

A closeup of sugar cane.

We want US rum

If you’ve been reading along with us here, you know we love rum. We think it’s underappreciated and underrepresented and it's ready for the spotlight. But the spotlight, as always, looks a little different for us than it does for the broader world of rum marketing.

Rum reading

What do you know about rum? A lot of people associate rum with sugary batch cocktails at a college party, latter day cheeseburger-in-paradise pirates (yarrrr), and headaches that make you want to never drink again. There's more to RUM THAN COLLEGE PARTY HANGOVERS One of my favorite books

Cutting the Sugar Cane, a print of an original 1823 drawing by William Clark of enslaved workers cutting cane in Antigua.

Rum is f*cked

I'd like to encourage you to check out Céline Bossart's article Decolonizing the Whitewashed World of Carribean Rum on Liquor.com. It's required reading if you consume sugar cane products (rum, refined sugar, molasses) or similar things like coffee and chocolate here in the

Closeup of sugar crystals on a blue surface.

The cost of sugar

As you know, we’re nuts about rum. Distillates of sugar cane are the delicious, versatile, and under-sung heroes of the booze world, if you ask us. But the problems with sugar supply chains are immense, and as we’ve only lightly touched on them in these newsletters, we thought

A container ship loaded with stacks of containers traverses grey waters.

Global value chain of rum

Ever heard of a GVC? According to Stefano Ponte, author of Business Power & Sustainability, a Global Value Chain is "the full range of activities that firms, farmers, and workers carry out to bring a product or service from its conception to its end use". Whether you'