It’s impossible to discern a rum’s age from color alone, so why are we still classifying it this way? Sarah Maiden / Food & Wine Across all widely consumed categories of distilled spirits, rum is by ...

As the weather warms, many drinkers instinctively start reaching for bottles of rum. Long associated with tropical climates, the category conjures images of sugary sweet cocktails, brightly hued and ...

Rum is in the midst of a misidentity crisis. To most Americans, mentioning the category still conjures colonial notions of pirates, pina coladas, painkillers, and similar sugary, boozed-up tropical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about wines and spirits and the hidden corners of the world Rum is an alcoholic beverage that is made from fermenting ...

American travelers have never been so enamored with Cuba; thanks to direct flights from the States, this Caribbean island nation, while not technically legal for US tourists, is more accessible than ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Organizers of the New York Puerto Rican Day Parade, one of the largest U.S. outdoor events, said they are ending a 30-year relationship with the makers of Captain Morgan Rum ...

Real talk: The best rum drinks are tiki drinks. Especially when getting drunk is the whole point. Various rums, citrus-forward fruit juices, and tropical spices combine to make high-alcohol drinks ...

In 1650, a lease agreement for 150 acres in St. Philip, Barbados, included "four new strong mastick Indigo flats and four large mastick cisterns for liquor for Rum." It's the earliest mention of rum ...