As part of my recent interview series I felt it was time to interview one of my contemporaries. As a blogger since at least 2008 and a keen writer and rum enthusiast long before that I felt that Helena “Tiare” Olsen would be fitting interviewee.
As you can see from Helena’s detailed and interesting responses this was a particularly good choice! Enjoy. (Apologies for the slightly cluttered appearance here – WordPress is playing funny buggers with me I will endeavour to sort it out!)
1. Tiare – You are well know in the Rum and mixology community. Your blog takes a slightly different take on things, to many other Rum Blogs. Do you think your blog’s slightly eclectic style is what has garnered it so much attention? Something a little bit different perhaps. Your 3 part article on Demerara rum was a very interesting and impressively researched read.
1. Tiare – You are well know in the Rum and mixology community. Your blog takes a slightly different take on things, to many other Rum Blogs. Do you think your blog’s slightly eclectic style is what has garnered it so much attention? Something a little bit different perhaps. Your 3 part article on Demerara rum was a very interesting and impressively researched read.
I really have no idea….my story is this – my blog has always been about 4 things – what my old headline did say – Rums, Tiki drinks, Cocktails and Spirits. I write because I enjoy it and think it`s fun and I`d be bored if I wrote about the same thing all the time…
Cocktails and mostly tiki drinks was what I wrote about the first year, back in 2008 and then due to my at the time, membership of the Cocktails and Spirits Online Writers Group (CSOWG, which was made of 25 booze blogs) I started to review products and it was not only rum back then.
Today’s interviewee is Johnny Drejer, who has been publishing information regarding additives in rum since 2013. Specifically sugar using a Hydrometer method.
Richard Seale is in the UK next week on a bit of a mini-tour. Sadly the nearest he is coming to thefatrumpirate’s neck of the woods is Edinburgh. Which due to work commitments means missing out on meeting the man himself. More details of Richard’s tour can be found 
On Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 March