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Gary Regan Rum Article

By beans
March 19, 2004 in Spirits & Cocktails

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Posted March 19, 2004

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Posted March 19, 2004

Not so distant future eG Q&A guest Gary Regan fills us in on some of the glorious wonders of Rum. :smile:

Rum is an incredibly versatile base for cocktails and mixed drinks, but unfortunately many bartenders simply add three to five different fruit juices to a tot or three of Caribbean comfort, and declare the drink a masterpiece. Worse still is that many of these ill-conceived potions can be quite palatable it's hard to go wrong so they seldom get sent back to the bar. But the rum gets lost in the mix its flavors are masked, its nuances lost. These are happy-go-lucky drinks, and there's a place for them in this world, but there's no place for them at Cocktails in the Country.

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