If you love rum you need to listen to “5 Minutes of Rum” – which is notes of rum, 5 minutes at a time. It`s a great podcast that is just starting out and episode 5 is just out. You can find it on the web – here – and then you can also find it on itunes if type in “5 minutes of rum”.
It`s made by Kevin Upthegrove aka heylownine and it´s a great podcast and who doesn´t have five minutes for rum?
The five episodes are these and talks about:
Episode 1 –
Barbados (wikipedia) Plantation rum – Plantation Grande Reserve 5 years – Ministry of Rum
OXO citrus squeezer – Beachbum Berry – Grog Log – Beachbum Berry Remixed
Episode 2 –
Regional variations of rum – Don Q Cristal – Syrup bottles (Cost Plus)
Google search for history of the Daiquiri
Episode 3 –
Regional variations of rum – Solera – Coruba rum – Coruba Dark Jamaican rum: Ministry of Rum –
A Mountain of Crushed Ice passion fruit recipe – BG Reynolds passion fruit syrup
– Monin passion fruit syrup – Beachbum Berry Remixed – Trader Vic’s Tiki Party
Episode 4 –
Microdistillery (wikipedia) – Portland’s Distillery Row – House Spirits
Photos of House Spirits (Flickr) – Smuggler’s Cove Triumverate Rum
Old Fashioned Glass (wikipedia) – Aeration of wine
Episode 5 –
Rhum Agricole (wikipedia) – Rhum Agricole – Martinique (wikipedia)
Martinique AOC specification – Rhum JM – ‘Ti Punch @ RumDood.com
So go and check it out! it only takes 5 minutes per episode! and you learn a lot plus there´s recipes on the website.
Thank you for listening *and* for writing about it on your site. Your blog is one of my “go to” cocktail reference sites.
After I get through the run of episodes I’ve plotted out, perhaps I can use one of your original cocktails on an episode?
Thanks again!
kevin
Thanks Kevin! and sure you can use one of my cocktails! Cheers! T
These podcasts have been very good. I am enjoying them very much, and when I have had the spotlight rums on hand I have been like Pavlov’s dog bending to the power of suggestion and uncorking the bottles to play along. Put quite a dent in the Coruba and Rhum JM bottles the other day and I blame Kevin!