Sugar, how sweet it is.  Put through a few industrial processes, you get molasses.  Put that same molasses in a still, and you get rum.  Since its purported first days in Barbados, the art of turning fermented molasses into Kill-Devil has roused the spirit and stirred the soul of man into acts both great and horrible, [...]

Matt Robold is an Orange County, California-based blogger with a passion for rum, an interest he indulges on his blog Rum Dood. Tales of the Cocktail may have officially started on July 16, but for several intrepid rum-lovers, the festivities got going on a little earlier. On Tuesday, July 15, Ed Hamilton opened the 2008 [...]

Matt Robold is an Orange County, California-based blogger with a passion for rum, an interest he indulges on his blog Rum Dood. 10:27am – Finally got my wireless working so I won’t be using my blazing fast cellphone for this.  I don’t think there were this many island shirts and straw hats at Jeff Berry’s [...]

This is the debut post from Matt Robold. Matt is an Orange County, California-based blogger with a passion for rum, an interest he indulges on his blog Rum Dood. Tales of the Cocktail is rapidly approaching us, and it can’t come soon enough. This year will mark my first venture out to the show, and [...]