Berliners do not take their drinking lightly. A recent week there had us sprawled in our bed at the end of every night, barely able to move. Fortunately we had company. Nightly from 12 to 6 a.m., a local TV station aired an unbroken closeup of a dour puppet trapped in a Sartrean void. His [...]
The Beachbum may not be in the chips, but at least he’s in the news. For the current issue of Saveur magazine, he wrote a five-page spread about his favorite subject: rum. The article also features seven cocktail recipes, both classic and contemporary, plus brand recommendations. You can read it all here (minus the recommendations, [...]
The Beachbum’s rum article in this month’s Saveur magazine rates ten rums based on their sippability and mixability. Unfortunately the article went to press before a recent sojourn to the Mediterranean, where we encountered several rums previously unknown to us. Since then, we haven’t been able to bring ourselves to review these rums on our [...]
In a rare burst of energy, the Beachbum has hand-picked four of the world’s most entertaining rum authorities and brought them together, for the first and only time, to celebrate Tiki’s favorite spirit. The Rumposium — a part of the Hukilau four-day Tiki festival, June 9-12 — will be a rollicking ride down the rapids [...]