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So, if you add Indian “whiskey” production to their rum-making, which under EU and US law you could, it must easily confirm India’s position as the world’s number one rum producer. I offer my own marketing solution..Indian makers of molasses based “whiskey” should sell it as “Risky” and enhance the sense of adventure..
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Big boys give liquor man a rum deal in the cities
* Tony Barrass
* From: The Australian
* December 29, 2009 12:00AM
RAYMOND Bernard Dessert III, better known around the east Kimberley town of Kununurra as Spike Dessert, doesn’t want to sound paranoid, but he’s certain [...]

A safe harbour for N.S. rum
Lunenburg distiller to make traditional and new libations
By CHRIS LAMBIE Business Editor
Fri. Dec 11 – 4:46 AM
A Lunenburg couple opening the South Shore’s first distillery this spring had not planned, at first, to make rum.
But in a town built on the trade of salt fish for what is arguably one [...]

Where rum needs no umbrella
Friday, December 4th, 2009 | 3:00 pm
Canwest News Service
We’re in the old stone tasting room at historic St. Nicholas Abbey on Barbados, surrounded by copper-pot stills and oak barrels and the nose- ticklingly spicy aroma of the aged rum in our glasses.
Outside, the warm Caribbean breeze rustles through acres of sugar [...]

Salud! Mad Bird flies in the face of traditional rum
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By CHRIS MARTELL | cmartell@madison.com | 608-252-6179 | Posted: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 5:00 am | No Comments Posted
buy this photo Mad Bird [...]

Holy Grail for Holey Dollar Rum
Australian Heritage Rum Wins ‘Worldwide Distiller of The Year’
For the first time in its 40 year history judges at the prestigious International Wine and Spirits Competition have awarded the coveted title of Worldwide Distiller of The Year to an Australian company. The Holey Dollar Rum Distilling Company submitted three [...]

Amalgamated, Square One boost sales with spirits
St. Louis Business Journal – by Christopher Tritto
Brian Cassidy
Jesse Jones said The Stable, which opened in Benton Park in June 2008, turned its first profitable month in October.
With a new partner and the first small batches of rum heading out the door, Amalgamated Brewing Co. owner-operator Jesse Jones already [...]

Luxury Rum launched
Published: Thursday | November 26, 2009
Daviot Kelly, Staff Reporter
The juicy pan-seared fillet mignon with slow roasted rosemary potatoes and vegetables of the market sautéed in garlic butter. – photos by Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
J. Wray and Nephew launched its new luxury rum last Thursday with a delectable seven-course dinner at the Terra Nova All-Suite [...]

It is brilliant design and packaging, but the PR version of history never ceases to amaze. Tom Gjelten and other authors have questioned the PR version of Bacardi history. It was suggested that the bat was actually on the olive oil containers Bacardi reused when they began making rum! And El Cid was some [...]

I can’t vouch for the Kraken Rum, but the ads are gripping!