Rum Rhum Club Redux.

I'm excited to be speaking again at the Rum Rhum Club at the Tonga Hut in North Hollywood, California. Last time I spoke about the Mai Tai. This time I'll be speaking about the rums of the Kōloa Rum Company of Kauai, Hawaii. We're going to sample all 5 rums in their line and serve a cocktail called the the Waiʻaleʻale which I've created for this event.

The date is January 26th, 2014, and time is 2 PM. Like last time, it's kind of like an in-person episode of 5 Minutes of Rum, albeit one that I've not yet recorded. If you're in the area, I'd love for you to come out and drink some rum with me.

Date: January 26, 2014

Time: 2 PM

Location: Tonga Hut Tiki Bar, North Hollywood, CA

Cost: $20 (includes rum tastings and a cocktail during the presentation) New members to the Rum Rhum Club will need to purchase a passport for $20.

Facebook event page (again, I'm given to understand that this is a thing people like to visit)

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Link: The world's most versatile spirit →

I don't know that I'd call the distillation method unimportant, but it's true that the mash is pretty key with English-style rums.

“English: The history of the English style took off with Britain finding Barbados, an island that was off of the major chain of islands and therefore had not been discovered or claimed by France or Spain. On Barbados, the English invented factory or modern production styles. One truism to this style is that the distillation methodology is unimportant with stills ranging from wooded ones to very formal and recognizable ones. What is important is the dunder; the mash is left in the fermenter and more molasses is added in. This style produces a resinous, rich style full of esters that allows it age well, be transported, and left on docks for storage. In Jamaica, they often take this to an extreme where they keep fermenting until the molasses mash stops bubbling, take some of it off for distillation, replenish the volume, and sometimes they never clean out the fermentation tank. The age statement on English rums is the minimum age.”
— http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2013/11/rum-worlds-most-versatile-spirit.html