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Tommy Bahama's New Electric Bike "Pedaled" In Time for the Holidays

Filed under: Gadgets, Holiday Guides, Luxury Shopping

The king of palm trees, Tommy Bahama, has partnered with Pedego to produce an electric bike just in time for the holiday gift season. The product is debuting Sept. 22-24 at the Interbike International Trade Expo at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas.

The lightweight aluminum electric bikes comes in the classic cruiser and step-thru styles. It has a manual six-speed gear box, allowing for better grade navigation or you can simply to switch to the 36-volt lithium battery and let the bike do the work for you. The bike, which comes in vibrant orange, features custom-padded handgrips and an adjustable contoured seat. It travels at a top speed of 20 mph and gets about 40 miles per charge, depending on the rider's weight and the terrain.

The manufacturer's suggested retail price is $2,575.

Tommy Bahama, best known for its tropical living styled sportswear and home furnishings, sees this as a natural extension of its outdoor living branding. Electric bikes are being promoted as a green alternative for gas-powered transportation, a good forem of exercise and a hip style of recreation.

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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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The Tommy Bahama Bar at the New Yankee Stadium

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Spirits

If you're going to be visiting Yankee Stadium, be sure and check out the new Tommy Bahama Bar just inside Gate Six.

The Tommy Bahama Bar is located in the perfect place for meeting friends -- Gate 6 is the first gate you see when you get off the subway. Better still? They serve delicious drinks made with Tommy Bahama Rum!

Tommy Bahama Rum has been gaining momentum since its release in 2007, especially at the Tommy Bahama Cafes around the world. The rum is handcrafted in Barbados by R.L. Seale, a family owned and operated distillery with four generations of experience. The rum incorporates all natural ingredients -- blackstrap molasses, coral-filtered water, and yeast, and is fermented in small batches. The White Sand version is aged for two years in oak, and then the color is filtered out. The Golden Sun, amber-colored Tommy Bahama rum gets its color from three years of aging in oak. Tommy Bahama Rum is being distributed by Sidney Frank -- the same company who brought you Grey Goose and Jagermeister.

Marrying a sexy, high quality rum with a lifestyle brand like Tommy Bahama is a brilliant move. When you think Tommy Bahama, you think tropical, and what goes in tropical drinks? Rum.

I spoke briefly with Tommy Bahama CEO Terry Pillow about the collaboration and the new bar at Yankee Stadium. Click through the gallery to read the interview and see more of the new Tommy Bahama Bar!

Gallery: The Tommy Bahama Bar at Yankee Stadium

Annie Scott and Tommy Bahama CEO Terry Pillow

Gate 6 Great Hall - The Bar is Visible at the End

Check out our brother site Gadling for exclusive photos of the new Yankee Stadium.

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Tommy Bahama Bar Brings Island Style To Yankee Stadium

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining, Sports

Yankee Stadium has a wide variety of places to eat but there are also places to drink. Lifestyle brand Tommy Bahama has created the Tommy Bahama's Bar which overlooks the Great Hall that serves as the main entrance and a meeting place for fans. Yankee Stadium ticket-takers will be wear blue polo shirts or half-zip pullover sweatshirts with the New York Yankees insignia on the left chest and the Tommy Bahama marlin on the left sleeve. Select Tommy Bahama merchandise will also be sold at Yankee Stadium. The bar also serves drinks using the Tommy Bahama Rum making it a nice tie-in for the brand even if rum isn't the usual baseball drink of choice.

The Tommy Bahama bar is just one of the many branded areas in the stadium. For an interesting tour of the many sights to be seen check out this post from Retail Anarchy.

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Tommy Bahama Rum

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Spirits

What spirit would the Tommy Bahama brand, famous for selling a relaxed island-style second-home chic, choose to brand with their name? Rum of course. This spring will see the introduction of two Tommy Bahama rums: Tommy Bahama White Sand and Tommy Bahama Golden Sun (otherwise known as the white one and the dark one). The rum is from Barbados and uses blackstrap molasses, water naturally filtered through coral stone and is fermented using a yeast imported from the wine-growing regions of South Africa. The rum is aged small batches in American white oak barrels. The white rum is aged for at least two years and the dark rum is a blend of rums aged a minimum of three years. The rum is easy to spot since it features the Tommy Bahama logo and palm trees. Often rum is packaged in less sophisticated bottle shapes, the look of this one is pleasingly modern.

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