What Rum Means to Me

Kiowa Bryan: What Rum Means to Me

By Kiowa Bryan Aug. 18, 2020

I think my story of rum is a bit backwards from most rum people. I started mixing cocktails at the age of eighteen in New Jersey, and the only rum I was pouring was in the form of Bacardí Limón and … Read More

Maggie Morgan portrait. Photo by Claire Rayes.

Maggie Morgan: What Rum Means to Me

By Maggie Morgan Aug. 4, 2020

Most people have close connections to spirits when they grew up around them or close to where they are made. …

Lulu Martinez: What Rum Means to Me

By Lulu Martinez Jul. 7, 2020

As you are no doubt aware, the Rum Reader always encourages discussion of the Daiquiri. In this month’s rum …

Zan Kong: What Rum Means to Me

By Zan Kong Aug. 27, 2019

Rum. To some, it’s a cheap booze you mixed with Coke and drank in college. To some, it’s the next big …

Adrian Keogh: What Rum Means to Me

By Adrian Keogh Jul. 23, 2019

Growing up in rain-sodden 1970s Dublin, my earliest rum memory was the Cadbury’s Old Jamaica Rum ’n’ Raisin …

Bridget Firtle: What Rum Means to Me

By Bridget Firtle May. 29, 2019

I love when I meet new people and they ask me, “So, what do you do?” To which I reply, “I founded a boutique …

Matthew Belanger: What Rum Means to Me

By Matthew Belanger Apr. 2, 2019

My first actual bartending job was opening a rum bar, Donna, in Brooklyn in 2012. It was only my second real …

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