Posts Tagged ‘Rum’

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

    April 20th, 2016 | Bartending | journalpulp | 10 Comments

      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 […]

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  • Putting the Cock Back in Cocktail with Rum

    April 22nd, 2014 | Bartending | journalpulp | 12 Comments

    Nothing says springtime like a refreshing rum cocktail — refreshing, with its remoter connotations of freshets and bursting water. Come and have a drink with the unwashed: Rum, like the hangovers it can create, is a side-effect, a by-product: a by-product of the juice that comes from sugarcane. And that, really, is one of the […]

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