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How to Make a Hot Buttered Rum (video)

In the video above, partners at the Small Screen Network will show
you how to make a hot buttered rum, which is a great cocktail to have on a cold winter day. Robert Hess, host of "The Cocktail Spirit", will show you an easy to follow way to make one, without much advance prep work.

What you will need: a pre-heated coffee cup or mug, a teaspoon of butter, 2 teaspoons of sugar (preferably brown), 5 ounces of hot water, a cinnamon stick, nutmeg, and rum (Mount Gay Extra Old rum is what Hess uses).

For more innovative cocktail recipes, please see the ones offered to us by The Hurricane Club.

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Captain Morgan Rewards Archaeologists With Rum For Ocean Floor Find

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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You don't hear about liquor brands getting involved in archaeology too often but the team of archaeologists has recovered six cannons from the site where "infamous privateer" Captain Henry Morgan's ships wrecked in the 1600s is being rewarded with rum. Morgan is the namesake of Captain Morgan spiced rum. The ships crashed into a reef while carrying Morgan and a group of his men to raid Castillo de San Lorenzo el Real de Chagres, a fort that guarded the capital of Panama City. Morgan and his men were sailing up the river when his flagship, the Satisfaction, and multiple other vessels crashed into a reef and sank.

The Captain Morgan Rum Company has offered each adult member of the expedition team a barrel of their very own blend of rum, and plans to immortalize the team by renaming a section of the Captain Morgan distillery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in their honor.

"We cannot thank these brave archaeologists enough for recovering Captain Morgan's lost cannons and returning them to us, as we all feared they were lost to the seven seas forever," said a spokesperson for the Captain Morgan Society for the Preservation of Life, Love & Loot.

The company believes that there may be bottles of Morgan's spiced rum that were aboard the Satisfaction and his other ships off the coast of Panama remain on the ocean's floor waiting to be recovered. It has offered a reward as well as a role in a future advertising campaign to whoever who recovers them with the proviso that they do so responsibly and without damaging anything natural to environment.

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First Taste: Banks 5 Island Rum

by David Kiley (RSS feed) —

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First Taste: Banks Five Island Rum has been rolling into bars and entail for the past several months. Named for noted explorer Sir Joseph Banks, it has been created by John Pellaton (former president of Hine Cognac USA) and his partners.

It's a white rum, bottled at 43% ABV, with a price you'll find between $25-$28.00.

The complexity of the rum, which is evident at first whiff, is due to the fact that it is actually a blend of rums from five different distilleries. Each rum was aged between three and twelve years, and then filtered to go white again after the aging. The rums come from Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana and Java.

On the tongue, Banks is nicely peppery with notes of ginger. I drank it straight and then with some Angostura Bitters over ice. It exhibits a very full body and long finish. It is about the most interesting white rum I have tried in years.

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Bacardi Launches Rock Coconut Infused Rum

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) —

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Coconut rum is nothing new. Bacardi themselves have been making it for ages, after all, never mind the competition. But this isn't regular coconut rum. It's Bacardi Rock Coconut.

Marketing jargon? Hardly. What sets Bacardi Rock Coconut apart is the combination of coconut juice with rock melon, a fruit indigenous to India and Africa. The combination of the two flavors, according to Bacardi, gives the new Rock Coconut rum a crisp, smooth taste.

Mix it with coke or pineapple juice for an especially zesty cocktail, or try Barcardi's iPhone app for other mixing suggestions.

The new addition joins the expanding range of Bacardi flavors including razz, peach red, grand melon, big apple, torched cherry, dragon berry and of course the existing coconut flavor. Suggested retail price comes in under $14 for a 750 ml bottle, also available in 50, 200 and 275 ml bottles as well as 1 and 1.75-liter sizes.

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Bacardi Introduces Reserva Limitada Founder's Blend Rum

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) —

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Back in the early days of the Bacardi rum distillery, the Maestro de Ron (rum master) created a special blend just for the family of founder Don Facundo Bacardi. It remained exclusive to the family for generations, finally being released to local markets in the Caribbean – Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and Aruba – to celebrate the opening of the distillery's visitor center back in 2003.

Aged in lightly-charred American white oak barrels for 10-16 years, the Reserva Limitada is now reaching the American market as the company's top-of-the-line "founder's blend". The deep reddish-gold dark rum has a nose of vanilla, oak and dried fruits.

Initial availability will be limited to just 1,000 cases (with six 750ml bottles per case), each bottle selling for a suggested price of $110.

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India's Amrut Readying Ultra-Premium Rum

by David Kiley (RSS feed) —

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Indian distiller Amrut, which caused a sensation in the West last year after having its single-malt whisky rated #3 in the world by The Whisky Bible, has its eye on extending its new-found brand cachet into premium or ultra-premium priced rum.

Amrut makes most of its revenue, in fact, from selling rum and brandy inside India--Old Port Rum and Silver Cup Brandy. The company's chairman says Amrut blenders have been working on a luxury-priced rum that would be a blend of Caribbean and Indian rums. No release date is set yet.

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Barbados' Famed Mount Gay Rum Gets a Redesign

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Spirits, Architecture & Design

One of our very favorite spirits, Barbados' Mount Gay Rum is getting a new look courtesy of a Parisian design firm. QSLD Paris was charged with giving the iconic brand a refresher while keeping it firmly rooted in the traditions of the 300-year-old distillery.

QSLD came up with a new oval-shaped bottle, designed to be uncluttered and very comfortable to handle. The company crest is engraved on the bottle face and the label has been redesigned for a cleaner feel, while the rum's signature red cap remains.

QSLD had already re-designed the brand's Extra Old and 1703 Cask Selection bottlings before turning its attention to the classic, known as Eclipse. Founded by Denis Boudard, QSLD has done design work for several luxury brands including Guerlain, Lacoste, Chopard, Oscar de la Renta, Veuve Clicquot and Hennessy.

The new design also contains cues to the rum's nautical heritage. A legend dating from the 1600s relates that in order to prove passage across the Atlantic from Europe to the "New World," sailors were obliged to bring back a barrel of Barbados rum.

As evidence of its "profound and privileged relationship with the sea, with sailors and with ships", every year Mount Gay Rum proudly sponsors over 120 regattas around the globe.

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Elements 8 Creates Spiced Rum

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Elements 8 rum has created a new barrel infused spiced rum. The rum is a blend of fruits and spices that occur on St. Lucia, where Elements 8 Rums are distilled. Flavors including cinnamon, ginger, clove, star anise, vanilla, honey, nutmeg, orange, lemon and coconut are infused within the barrel before being finally blended with the other single rums. The result is a balance of 10 indigenous spices married with fine aged rum. it can be sipped neat or used to add a new twist to an Old-Fashioned or to spice up a Dark and Stormy. The rum is being sold in the UK and will be available in Harvey Nichols and Selfridges for £36.99.

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Barbados "Crop Over" Festival Nears Grand Finale

by Alison Wellner (RSS feed) —

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Crop Over is the biggest festival in Barbados, and is that island nation's version of Brazil's Carnival. Historically, the event marked the end of the sugar harvest, but now that tourism has well overtaken sugar production in the Bajan economy, it's become a great excuse to throw a five-week long summer party.

It's all about to come to a climax on Monday, August 2nd -- the end of Crop Over, also known as Grand Kadooment day. This is basically a giant parade of calypso bands, all dressed in wild costumes. It's a competition, and it's huge: last year 15,000 costumed people participated with 25 bands. And I'm quite sure that it's well fueled with one of Barbados' most enduring legacies of the sugar trade: rum.

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Bacardi Debuts Torched Cherry Rum for Summer

by Ariston Anderson (RSS feed) —

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Bacardi flavored rums are unlike any other. In a lineup of unmarked bottles, Bacardi blends always stand out as being the most fragrant. Whether you're a Limon or a Dragon Berry type of rum drinker, your preferred flavor will fill the room with aroma. I attended a Bacardi-hosted event to determine just how they make their varietals so intensely flavorful. In correlation with the summer launch of their latest flavor, Torched Cherry, Barcardi invited journalists to come and mix their own cherry rums.

After learning about each of the various flavors that go into Torched Cherry, we were given a selection of infusions to experiment making our own. While we were given five flavors to come close to the Bacardi original, we weren't given the entire lot of flavors in the mix, thus protecting the prized recipe.

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Brugal Rums Now Available In The United States

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We know the liquor cabinet is getting crowded, what with the old favorites and the latest tastemaking selections you need to keep up with, but allow us to widen your choice by just one: Brugal Extra Viejo rum. The dark amber elixir, aged from three to eight years in American oakwood casks, hasn't been available in the U.S. until now.

Behind the gold braiding that wraps every bottle of Brugal you'll find a bevy of flavors and notes: vanilla, almonds, raisins, toasted oak, pipe tobacco, roast coffee, warm toffee, hot cocoa, hints of nutmeg and anise. Not the kind of thing you'll want to drown in a bath of Coca-Cola, Brugal is best sipped straight or with a single cube. But who are we to tell you how to drink? We're only here to let you know what your friends might be looking for behind your bar. Should you decide it's time for traditional Extra Viejo Dominican rum, amigo, your liquor merchant will need $25 greenbacks for a 750ml bottle.

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What Makes a Rum Premium?

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Spirits

I recently had the good fortune of visiting Barbados to see how Tommy Bahama Rum is made. I found myself immersed in a sugar-fueled economy. Sugar cane cultivation began on the limestone-coral island around 1640 after the arrival of the British, and as the making of rum has been going on for millennia, it's safe to guess that the Barbados rum industry is over 350 years old. There are a number of Barbados rums available, and countless more are created on neighboring islands and throughout the Caribbean. Yet strangely, there is little-to-no quantifiable information about what makes one rum better than another. Anyone can make a list of tasting notes, but there are no international appellations for type and quality.

The region in which the cane is grown and the island on which the rum is made don't seem to affect taste -- just the age, what it's aged in, whether it's made from molasses or directly from the cane, and whether anything has been added to it. Rum has long been the common drink of the common people in the Caribbean, and so the concept of a "premium" rum has been somewhat slow to form. So, what exactly makes a rum premium?

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I visited the famous Foursquare Distillery where Tommy Bahama and a number of other premium rums are made and had a tour, a tasting and a long chat with Richard Lawrence Seale, a fourth generation distiller whose great-grandfather, Reginald Leon, is the man for which R.L. Seale's rum is named. Foursquare has been in the Seale family since 1995; prior to that, it was a sugar factory. Parts of Foursquare date back as far as the mid 18th century. Needless to say, a tour is good fun -- and it's one of the only places in the world where you can see the process of making rum from molasses to bottle. The tour is free and open to tourists.

As I mentioned, the source of the molasses doesn't really have an effect on the taste. Foursquare gets theirs partly from Guyana, as there isn't enough sugar on Barbados to support the rum industry. The first step of making a premium rum comes from monitoring the fermentation.

Gallery: Rum Touring and Tasting at Foursquare Distillery

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Plantation Rum Releases 20th Anniversary Edition

by Michael B. Dougherty (RSS feed) —

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In celebration of Alexandre Gabriel's 20 years at the helm of Cognac Ferrand, the French producer has released an anniversary bottle from its Plantation Rum collection. As president and owner of the esteemed cognac house, Gabriel discovered that the used casks he had been selling to Caribbean rum producers created a superior flavor profile.

Inspired, he launched his own series of rums, sourced from their original countries of origin-Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad, etc.-and shipped to the Ferrand Estate, where they undergo additional aging. While rums are typically aged in bourbon or sherry barrels, Ferrand takes the technique one step beyond by further maturing its rums in former cognac casks. The result is a tantalizingly complex spirit, and the 20th anniversary edition blends several aged examples. Warm notes of dried fruit, cinnamon and macaroons follow a citrusy nose of banana and mango, truly evocative of the rum's terroir.

Price: $39.99 for 750ml.

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The Classicist: Plantation Rum Collection, Finished in Cognac Casks

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

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Last summer we told you about Citadelle, the delicious gin inspired by a recipe created in the 18^thcentury in the French seaport of Dunkirk, made by Cognac Pierre Ferrand during the downtime between brandy distilling seasons. Now Ferrand has embarked on another exclusive new spirits venture: the Plantation Rum Collection. These spectacular artisanal spirits come from Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama and Trinidad, hand-selected by Ferrand's owner Alexandre Gabriel. Each rum in the Plantation collection is made according to its country's traditions and expresses the characteristics and flavor of its country of origin. While the rums are created in rum distilleries in the traditional fashion and aged in barrels in the tropical sun, they then undergo a unique finishing process not used by any other rum producer in the industry.

At just the right moment they're brought to the historic Ferrand estate in France and then refined for several more months in small French oak Ferrand cognac barrels. "Our love affair with true rum began when we sold the prized casks that once held our Cognac to better rum producers, and we fell in love with their product," Gabriel notes. "Ninety-nine percent of rums are aged in barrels that once held bourbon. We found that adding an aging process in a French oak cask that once held Cognac adds extra complexity to the rum. This is a practice that was done more commonly in the past but has almost disappeared now. We thought who better than Ferrand, with our knowhow and exceptional casks, to resurrect this ancient technique."

Gallery: Plantation Rum

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The Ultimate Luxury Gift Crate for Men - Cognac & Cuban Cigars

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Cigars, Spirits, Books, Men's Style

King's Crate, a new company based in Toronto, has launched a line of luxurious new gift crates created specifically for men of refined tastes. The collection is crowned by the Havana crate (above), which includes a stylish humidor, ashtray and cigar cutter, three Cuban cigars (Cohiba, Montecristo and Romeo y Julieta), your choice of Havana Club rum from Cuba, Courvoisier cognac or Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch, Pastiglie Leone Italian candies in a nostalgic pinup girl tin, cashews and roasted peanuts, and a copy of Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany. The price ranges from $196 - $270 Canadian depending on which booze you choose. Of course, the Cuban cigars and rum are only available in Canada (which has no Cuban embargo) and alcohol is limited to customers in Ontario at the moment, but the company has other crates filled with gourmet goodies and stylish accessories which can be sent anywhere. Each gift arrangement comes packaged in a handcrafted, reusable cedar crate.

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