Rum Gets Some Respect

[Matusalem]

Ed hamilton and his Ministry of Rum.Time Magazine article

In the past, I have posted on his rum forum, and Mr.Hamilton responds likewise and very informatively.

[Rumba Rue]

Interesting article. Though not a straight rum drinker, the best stuff I've ever had, was some rum that was just wonderfully sweet and tasty and smuggled into the USA and man did it give a punch to me!

[Patrick Hand]

My Boss owns a restaurante, and last year other than one other patron and myself, almost no one drank rum..... This year, for some reason mojitos are really popular.....

I guess Rums going to get all snooty like tequilla did a few years ago......

[Matusalem]

I guess Rums going to get all snooty like tequilla did a few years ago......

Same with Vodka , Gin, and whiskey...the marketing became directed towards yuppies, and put in slick bottling.

I forgot to post the original site. Ministry of Rum

Incidentally I recall a school field trip, when I was 11, to the Maritime Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and we students couldn't believe that sailors were fed a daily ration of rum from a huge tankard aboard the ship. We heard that and then we had more respect for sailors

[Patrick Hand]

and put in slick bottling.

Now if someone put it in a nice green onion bottle........

[Red-Handed Jill]

I have a great deal of respect for rum - been drinking it since I was a young kid (my grandmother used to give it to me and my brother so we would be more tranquil when she babysat us.)

[Hester]

Decided I might need some white rum (for Mojitos and Daquiris and such). Although I generally prefer dark rum (and amber for long, tall fruit drinks).

Anyhow, the liquor store had Havana Club Anejo Blanco white rum, so I decided to make the most of one of the perks of being Canadian and bought it. If a white rum is likely to have any flavour at all, this is it.

Yeah, viva Cuba libre, baby!

[Red Cat Jenny]

Now if someone put it in a nice green onion bottle........

Patrick, I'm with you on that..and a cool label that looks aged and weathered

[Graydog]

and put in slick bottling.

Now if someone put it in a nice green onion bottle........

Lookin at the link below, This har Pyrat XO Rum not be in a green bottle, but the hand blown bottle do be somewhat of a start in what ye be askin and the rum inside..tis to die fer! This be a rum best consumed straight, the smell be strong and sweet, just like the rum be.

Pyrat XO Rum

[Red-Handed Jill]

I have several of those bottles... They're called hoof bottles, if memory serves.

On the BevMo website, when they don't have a picture of a particular bottle of liquor, they show an onion bottle. Hmmm... maybe if a bunch of us convinced a rum distiller that it would be a good marketing tool to actually put one of their rums in an onion bottle...

[Rogue Mermaid]

I respect rum every chance I get

[Captain Jim-sib]

Via Patrick Hand

Now if someone put it in a nice green onion bottle

Pyrat Rum comes in an onion-type bottle . Excellent rum.

[Matusalem]

Get yer hands on one o' these:

300 year old bottle with seal

These are bottles John Lennon sang about in"Glass Onion"

Glass Onion

Check out #55:

Glass onion rum bottle

[Red-Handed Jill]

The Jamestown Glasshouse does hand-blown reproductions of 17th century glassware. They even set up shop near the original Jamestown colony's glassworks.

Jamestown Glassworks

For Christmas last year, Jack got me:

Two of these:

Onion bottles

Four of these:

Beer glasses

And one of these:

Wine decanter

[Graydog]

Wow, so much helpful information on where one can get a bottle! Thank you!

This be running a bit off the subject of rum getting more respect, but as to its container-

A question- why is green the preferred color for rum bottles?

[Matusalem]

Hmm, it's amazing what one finds on ebay, what does anyone think of this?:

1720 onion bottle