Getting Numb With Rum: How Rum Blazed the Trail for Bootleggers and Bourbon

  Rum, like the hangovers it can create, is a side-effect, a by-product: a by-product of the juice that comes from sugarcane. This, really, is one of the few definitive things you can say about the origins of rum. Rum, for instance, may or may not have been invented by Portuguese colonists operating along the […]