📸 🎥: Video Caption 👆🏽:This mini vid clip is from an incredible industry event at the James Beard House in 2022, where I had the rare and wonderful opportunity to meet Appleton Estate’s esteemed Master Blender Joy Spence during one of her few/infrequent visits to the states from Jamaica…
Did you know that all of August is Rum MONTH — and that National Rum DAY lands on August 16th each year? …🥃 Cheers!
Why August, you ask?
As far as I can tell, none of the major calendar services offer an explanation — but guess who does?
That’s right: ME, aka TFG, who’s been researching and writing about rum as an independent scholar for two decades …
📸 Photo Carousel pics:👆🏽 include : a range of rum pics from time traveling photos of patriot soldiers in the revolutionary war to photos of me in more modern times doing rum drink demos & history talks… … and mages from the history and fodder associated with my most popular rum concoction (Harlem’s Glory) … + still photos from that incredible industry event at the James Beard House mentioned above where I had the rare and wonderful opportunity to meet Appleton Estate’s esteemed Master Blender Joy Spence ….
As a longtime rum scholar — and the researcher and writer behind the “rum” entry in both The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food & Drink in America and The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Foodways Edition (+ many talks and tastings I’ve done on craft rums from throughout the Americas and elsewhere abroad) — I’ve got A LOT of rum content and commentary to share with you, past and present…
That includes the uniquely North American narrative of rum’s rebellious role in the American Revolution — and its deeper ties to freedom, resistance, and colonial entanglements across the Americas and beyond
👆🏽 beauty shots of bottles of some of just a few of my favorite craft rums….
⚠️ THIS PUNCHY RUM POST IS STILL UNFOLDING!
And quite honestly I’ll be sharing the biggest pours on my Patreon Platform for my amazing supporters to learn how this one little, three-letter, one-syllable word (RUM) tells a BIG and surprising story about how this ‘New World’ we now live in came to be…
Nonetheless, return here on or closer to August 16th for a few more pics in the photo carousel + updates on an upcoming Seasonal Sipping Series I’ll be reviving and relaunching later this MONTH — that you can tune into (and even taste along as I talk if you’d like, since I’ll be sending out small shopping/supplies lists in advance of the event)!
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for now: 👉🏿+ FIND MORE FREE TFG CALENDAR CONTENT HERE👈🏿