The Dark Side Of Rum
October, 1978
Rum is the most misunderstood, and perhaps the most ubiquitous, of alcoholic beverages. There are rums from Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Hawaii, Java and on down the alphabet, including every dinky sugar-cane island in your Rand McNally. And each, member of this far-flung family of spirits is different from the others to some degree. Rums range in intensity from white and virtually tasteless to rich, pungent and mahogany-hued. Recently, Statesiders have latched on to the charms of t...
