With its rich ingredients and warming spices and spirits, it’s easy to see how eggnog has long been associated with the winter months. Yet even in the Caribbean with its balmy Decembers, eggnog...
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Flowing from the Orinoco to Your Cocktail
Bitter botanicals have been added to alcohol since ancient humans discovered alcohol in the first place,...
Festival Fever Grips Tighter than a Pirate to Grog
The organized rum festival is a relatively new phenomenon, but impromptu festivities often result when a...
Manolito: Frolicking in Frosty Focus
As cocktail revivalists have sought to rebuild their temples to temptation, they’ve necessarily delved...
The Glittering Lives of Manhattan’s Rum Bunch
We are proud to introduce a new columnist to The Rum Reader, longtime society scrivener Shari Cask. She will...
Fog Cutter: Tropical Rum Romances the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest has a reputation for being a gray and dreary part of the United States, with high...
Rum and Rails in Barbados
When I was no more than four, I accompanied my mother to the Farmers’ Exchange in our semi-rural town of...