Almost everybody will know that Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He completed four voyages over the Atlantic Ocean to try to establish permanent settlements in the Caribbean and he started the Spanish Colonisation of the new world…
As mentioned in previous posts, the bulk of rum produced today comes from the Caribbean and Latin America. However, rum can be produced anywhere that sugar cane grows which is over 70 countries worldwide. Brazil and India produce…
As you may have read in a previous post we got to try this rum at Merchant house a few days ago. We were excited as it’s a very rare rum. In fact from what we have been told…
A couple of days ago we had the opportunity to visit Merchant House in London, who claim to have one of the largest collections of Rum (and Gin) in the World. As you can imagine, we were excited…
The Largest Collection Of Rum Outside of London in the UK? We have been to a few bars outside of London in the UK which have had an excellent selection of rum. One of the more notable was…
The Dark ‘n’ Stormy is the official cocktail of Bermuda. The cocktail’s name appeared after a sailor mixed ginger beer with the islands official rum, known as Gosling’s Black Seal sometime after the First World War. But here things get a…
There are many famous symbols in rum; the Captain of Captain Morgan, the Appleton Estate banner, but one of, if not the most famous, is the Bacardi Bat. We have seen that bat on a variety of different TV adverts, Bacardi…
As mentioned in a couple of earlier posts, rum has many nicknames including Nelsons Blood and grog. Alternatives include; Rumbullion, kill-devil, navy neaters, Barbados water and pirate’s drink. One of the theories of the origin of the word rum, is from Rumbullion, which…
Although there were many established before it, the oldest existing rum company in the world dates back to 1703 and is owned by Mount Gay in Barbados. A man named John Sober inherited an unknown distillery and asked his friend Sir…
The pioneers of fermenting sugarcane to produce drinks were actually from the East of the globe and date back to ancient times. It is believed that the process first transpired in either India or China. From that origin point it spread…