Even More Rum News

jankdc · Post by **jankdc** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:31 pm

Rum, Gin And Tequila Are Losing Popularity. It seems that flavored Vodka is in.

New Tiki bar in Dallas: Rum for your life: Dallas’ Sunset Lounge, revived as tiki bar

Article on a rum ginger syrup: Falernum: The Elusive Cocktail Syrup to Name Drop At Your Next Party

Another former exec from Pernod launches a new rum: For Bartenders, By Bartenders: Deluxe New Gin, Rum, Tequila And Vodka

Rum Festival April 20-21 in Miami: 2013 Miami Rum Festival expands

Calico Jack's production being moved: Jim Beam distillery in Lewiston shutting down

I might have posted this before: Lacassine distillery to launch Bayou Rum this summer

Weird: Noisy getaway donkey prevents robbery in Colombia

New cane juice rum in Australia: New Artisanal Rum - For Australia Day?

George Street spiced rum named Best of 2012

More new Australian rum: Valley gets into the spirits

That's all for now.

da'rum · Post by **da'rum** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:27 am

Nice job,

Although that tool who wrote the article on the Australian Agricole is a bit of a knob.

I was going to condemn him for being a self proclaimed rum lover that didn't know that Australia grew cane and made rum and I was going to provide links to back up my point.

WAS

Australia has a rich history of rum albeit now largely destroyed by Diageo/ Bundaberg.

I mean the history (at least the history available on the internet) is being erased by Diageo and Bundaberg rum.

Obviously Google at least has sold any search query that has 'Rum' and 'Australia' in it to Diageo, because all that a search gets now is 7 pages of Diageo's version of Australian rum history which in their snake eyes entails not much more than Bundaberg rum.

I hate this company, a large pile of dung in the eye of world spirits.

Anyway I found one small link. Not much but something.

http://www.australianstamp.com/coin-web ... rlyaus.htm

Will search more.

I found some good articles but in interest of not hijacking this thread, I created my own here... http://rumproject.com/rumforum/viewtopi ... =2119#2119

Post by **Capn Jimbo** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:47 am

A sincere thanks...

To the two of you who obviously took much time and care to share information not readily available to those who really care about rum, beyond "What I drank last night" or "Tres Hombres", uh, ho-hum rum.

This is brilliant material and simply not available otherwise. I am mad for good research and never came across any of this. What I find most disturbing is the amazing power of the mega-conglomerates who are able to even influence what we find on the internet. By means both legal and devious it appears we are shown only what these forces wish us to see.

This is done both by purchasing Google position, and also by highly skilled web programmers who know all the tricks insofar as coding your website to be able to garner preferred listings on Google searches.

Please do check da'Rum's link just above, where I especially enjoyed learning about the famous but misunderstood "pieces of eight":

The original Spanish dollar was quartered, often with a vertical and horizontal centre strip being removed and placed aside as illegally obtained profit for the fabricator. Each quarter segment was then cut into two pieces - a 2/3 segment and a 1/3 segment - producing eight pieces.
The larger segments became shillings while the smaller segments became sixpences - a nominal total value of 6 shillings.

A picture is worth a thousand pieces so check the link. What was especially interesting was how the cutter of the coin got his share, and how many goods were sold at 10 pence for which the buyer paid with two sixpence pieces - yet another "extra" for the seller.

Thanks again, all...