Rum For The Money
August, 2000
Summer rum drinks bring to mind daiquiris and rum-and-tonics. But there's also a dark side to the beverage--as evidenced by such classic cocktails as the mai tai, which calls for heavier rums. Even the British navy's daily ration of rum (it hasn't been poured since 1970) was a dark rum mollified with sugar and lime. You need sugarcane to make rum, and it was in the Caribbean that the sugarcane really took root. Eventually, someone discovered that the residue from the stalks that were crushed to...
