At a mere 83 seconds logically there shouldn’t be enough content in this video to even merit an article – no matter how small. However, there is so much to talk about in this video to simply comment on the link would not be doing rum any justice whatsoever. Originally broadcast by the BBC as…
Today I am reviewing an offering from the wonderful Foursquare Distillery, Barbados. The island often cites itself as the birthplace of rum. The oldest “official” (ie legal) rum distillery in the world is the Mount Gay Distillery, so its a fair enough claim to make. They also have plenty of other facts to back up their…
Rum and Britain have a long and tangled past together similar to other plundering European countries such as France, Spain and the Netherlands. Indeed the very origins of the word “rum” has been attributed to each of these nations (and others) at some point. Like it or not rum was used as a commodity by British Privateers and…