Rum quite literally means the world to me. It tells the story of exploration, exploitation, and the...


“There’s definitely a kind of magic about Jamaica,” Chris Blackwell told me as we sat in the front room of his Manhattan aerie in the gray autumn light. With rainswept... Read More

Hot on the heels of Chicago’s rum-fueled tiki movement, bartender Peter Vestinos opened the chic, 1930s-styled bar Sparrow in the city’s posh Gold Coast neighborhood in 2015. The cocktail bar... Read More

We are proud to introduce a new columnist to The Rum Reader, longtime society scrivener Shari Cask. She will periodically turn her prestigious pen to the august adventures of the... Read More

Sugar and spirits have enjoyed a cheerful partnership in our cups since the fifteenth century. Expensive and relatively rare, sugar was treated as a mood-lifting drug, making frequent appearances in... Read More

Rum quite literally means the world to me. It tells the story of exploration, exploitation, and the...

By Ben Schaffer

Three of the country’s foremost craft distillers—the trailblazing Karen Hoskin (Montanya Distillers);...

By Ben Schaffer
As cocktail revivalists have sought to rebuild their temples to temptation, they’ve necessarily delved...

The spirit you think of when Scotland comes to mind is whisky, while the typically-imagined setting for rum...
