Rhum Agricole is the French term for “cane juice rum”, a style of rum originally distilled in one of the French West Indies islands from freshly squeezed sugar cane juice rather than from molasses.
This past Saturday, L.A. celebrated it's cocktail culture with Cocktails in the City, a London-based festival. This was the festival's first event held in Los Angeles. The result? Thirty LA bars at Majestic Downtown creating fun, expressive, and delicious drinks. The Observer's Andy Wang shares with us the night's most buzzworthy drinks. Buzzworthy drinks we tried included the Pelée Punch with ...
If you are in the Chicago area you are in luck! Today (September 19th) at 5PM River Roast will be hosting a Reid Bar Pop-Up sponsored by Rhum J.M and Chairman's Reserve Rum. Ken Pritz and his team have crafted together a delicious cocktail list featuring: J.M Punch with Rhum J.M Gold & VSOP, J.M Shrubb, cranberry, lime Agricolada with ...
The LA area is busting out their Tiki shirts this Labor Day weekend for Beverly Wilshire's Tiki Lounge pop up in the CUT Lounge by Wolfgang Puck. Until September 2nd, the Tiki Lounge pop up will be celebrating the last of summer with hand-crafted cocktails and small bites with a Polunesian/island influence. If you are in the LA area, keep ...
Indianapolis Monthly presents to us Chris Coy's variation on the Mai Tai - a tiki classic. Black Market beverage director and The Inferno Room's co-owner, Chris Coy says, “The fun of a Mai Tai is finding the blend of rums that works for you. This recipe calls for an ounce of dark Jamaican rum (Plantation O.F.T.D. ...
The Indianapolis area is keeping their eyes open for the fall opening of The Inferno Room -"a thinking man's tiki bar" located in Fountain Square. Chris Coy (beverage director of Black Market) and Ed Ruisell (Mass Ave restaurant's co-owner, also of Rook, Thunderbird, and Siam Square) have teamed up to deliver the Indianapolis area an escapist haven ...
Build in glass in order listed. Add ice. Stir approximately 20 times. Express orange peel over cocktail and enjoy!
The rum world is a place of multifaceted beauty, and one of the more captivating styles of the spirit is the category of rhum agricole, traditionally made in the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe...
The Daiquiri - A quintessential summertime cocktail. Born in Cuba, the seemingly simple combination of rum, lime, and sugar is anything but. The perfect alignment of these ...
As the rum category flourishes in the spirits industry common concepts, though well-meaning, can stir a series of false sense to this maturing segment. Rum expert ...
French styled rum, commonly identified as rhum agricole (yes, rum with an H) is inescapable when seeking out rum options at your local bar, restaurant, or liquor store. ...