Picking fresh fruit is one of my favorite warm weather pastimes, but I inevitably go overboard and pick too much. Lots of the excess gets baked into pies and such, but there’s an easier way to stretch ...

The soft fruits of summer make ideal rum pots. Rum or brandy, pots are specialty desserts/toppings/side dishes that do not need cooking–a boon in hot weather–but must ripen for several weeks in dark, ...

If it’s May, it’s time to start a rumtopf, the German word for rum pot. I had never heard of a rum pot until a German friend served it many years ago. She spooned a drift of softly whipped cream into ...

WHEN I WAS young, foolish and living on an island known for its distillation of sugar cane, I met up with a powerful fellow named Ronrico. In the aftermath of that tropical storm, my head was ...

From coconut forward, and bold and spicy, to complex, aged and elegant bottlings, these are the rums bar pros reach for.

While the alcohol content for rum and whiskey is the same — both are bottled at 40 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV), each ...

First, the term “craft” came for whiskey. And we bought so much that shortages hit and prices skyrocketed. So, on to mezcal. To the Italian bitters called amaro. To gin, which distillers can produce ...

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Pot still rum is often treated as a novelty or a flavoring agent in the modern rum market, doled out in small quantities into various blends in order to act as “the spice” or “the flourish” on top of ...