American rum is a hugely popular category at the American Distilling Institute’s International Spirits Competition. Below are tasting notes on the competition’s top rums. Each year, the American ...

Rum’s bargain shelf is often treated like a dead zone: a place for anonymous mixers, plastic handles and bottles that exist mostly to disappear into a punch bowl. But that reputation doesn’t hold up ...

Great dark rum tends to be a lot cheaper than great bourbon or great scotch. That’s not to say there aren’t expensive rums on the shelf, it’s more that the incredibly wild whisk(e)y/spirits hype ...

As a spirits judge, I get to drink a hell of a lot of dark, gold, white, black, and flavored rum throughout the year. As with everything in this old world of ours, it can’t all be good, and often it’s ...

AN OXFORD University professor has created a song which is ‘scientifically proven’ to make rum taste even better. Sonic seasoning authority Professor Charles Spence applied ...

It’s difficult to overstate the size of the gap of knowledge, passion and priorities that exists between 99% of the spirits-drinking population who consume rum and the 1% of drinkers who would qualify ...

The Castle, a Centerville nonprofit supporting people with mental illness and disorders, is celebrating its 30th anniversary by hosting a rum tasting fundraising event. Rum Raid for The Castle, hosted ...

EASTON — Ahoy you pirates and wenches! There’s some rum tasting ahead at Chesapeake Forum. Join Joe Petro, proprietor of Snifter’s Bistro and Hair O’ the Dog in Easton, as he unravels the qualities of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS– During Tales of the Cocktail, ...

Arum tasting is quite different from a wine tasting. I know that because a couple of weeks ago, I went to TasteDC's second annual Rum Festival, held at the Woman's National Democratic Club. That night ...