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Protean Rum Breathes Life into the Classics

By Maggie Hennessy Dec. 4, 2018

Hot on the heels of Chicago’s rum-fueled tiki movement, bartender Peter Vestinos opened the chic, 1930s-styled …

After the conference.

Announcing the Rum Reader’s Advisory Board

By Ben Schaffer Nov. 15, 2018

The launch of the Rum Reader as a new voice for rum is an ambitious project, and we’re gratified for all the …

Hye Rum

What’s a French Vintner Doing Making Rum in Texas?

By Maggie Hennessy Oct. 23, 2018

Benjamin Calais didn’t come to the diminutive Texas Hill Country town of Hye to make rum, or even wine for …

The bounty of a bar book. Illustration by Ileana Soon.

The Ambitions of a Bar Book: Smuggler’s Cove

By H James Lucas Sep. 24, 2018

Step back twenty years (or forty or sixty, if you prefer), and a bar book is a book of drink recipes …

Exotic rums of the world. Photo by Matthias Merges.

Rare Rum Sleuths Mend Broken Links to Our Drinking History

By Maggie Hennessy Sep. 24, 2018

Sipping rum from a decades-old bottle might be one of our closest analogs to time travel. Visit Havana in 1958 …

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