Bell’s Brewery has announced the addition of a new year-round beer. Official American Wheat IPA is a 6.4 percent alcohol by volume brew that, according to the popular West Michigan brewery,…
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A local shop had this Isla Grande 18 year Maison Centenaire rum on a back shelf, along with the 15 and 30 year expressions. The 18 year was $40, so I…
On May 12 the island of St. Croix celebrates the grand opening of a brand new craft beer brewery. Leatherback Brewing Company has been months in the making with hard…
Bill’s note: take the age statements below with a grain of salt; these are “solera” rums which means only a portion of the rum in the bottle is actually that…
So my local pusher…uh, I mean my licensed retail alcohol sales proprietor, contacted me today. “Hey, is this Bill, the rum guy?”, he asked. “Yes”, I replied. Instantly flattered, of…
Matt Pietrek whipped up this new drink called the Jungle Doctor which feature’s Michigan’s own Two James Spirit’s Doctor Bird Jamaican rum. Anything by Matt is always worth the read,…
While it’s unfortunately that hipsters have discovered Irish Whiskey driving up the price of it for old school American Irish, one good thing to come out of that is the…
Bacardi has nutritional labels for most of their expressions listed on their corporate website. These labels include the sugar content. The values given on the page are for 1.5 oz…
The first-ever Caribbean Rum Awards was held in Saint Lucia this weekend, and the winners have been selected. The awards, curated by Caribbean Journal and a team of nine judges,…
While going through some old philatelic items today I ran across a little booklet that came with Zenith radios, dated March 29, 1941, that came from my great grandfather. It…