Category: rum
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A Look at the Once-Closed Long Pond Distillery on Jamaica
A cool closed Jamaican rum distillery that has since reopened.
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A Visit to the Monymusk Rum Distillery and the National Rums of Jamaica
A quick visit to the Clarendon distillery on Jamaica where they make Monymusk rum.
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A Revisit of the Appleton Rum Distillery in Jamaica
A return trip to Appleton rum on the island of Jamaica.
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Comparing Continuous Fermentation in Baijiu with Sour Mash Whiskey and Jamaican Muck Pits
A very nerdy (surprise!) look at how and why distillers recycle leftovers from the still into subsequent fermentation batches.
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Almost All the Cocktail and Spirits Books Published in 2017 for Reading or Gifting
Behold! Here is my round-up of all the cocktails and spirits books (plus a few others) that were released in 2017. This year, beyond the annual deluge of whisky books, there are books aping the bartender lifestyle (Drink Like a Bartender, Straight Up), more narrative books (I Hear She’s a Real Bitch, By the Smoke…
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Between the Heart and the Tails, the ‘Seconds’
In pot-still distillation we always talk about the cuts: the heads and tails that are discarded (or recycled), and the hearts cut that become the spirit that ends up in the bottle. But some distillers make a cut between the heart and the tails called the “seconds.”
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Dunder and Dragons: Making Rum at Lost Spirits Distillery
A pot still shaped like a dragon and a scientific reinvention of the ancient dunder pit process? Only at Lost Spirits Distillery in California.