Ah, rum, with its legendary pirates bellowing for grog, tiki umbrellas peeking up from neon-colored cocktails, tequila-spiked punch at college parties. Rum, universally imbibed and yet often scorned.

All rum is distilled from sugarcane, and most rum is distilled from molasses, a byproduct of sugar production. Most distilleries, however, have little direct control over how the cane is cultivated ...

Among aficionados of craft spirits, the obsessive quest for the “authentic,” “pure” and “rustic” intensifies with each passing year. Not too long ago, rhum agricole from Martinique or Guadeloupe — a ...

Go to section: British- and Jamaican-style rum | French-style rum | Spanish-style rum | Portuguese- and Brazilian-style rum | Spiced rum The most basic international definition of rum is a spirit that ...

If there’s one thing that rum geeks can all be said to have in common, it’s a thirst for nitty-gritty details of how their favorite spirit is produced, matured and refined. People who are really into ...