Free Rum Tasting at The Boston Shaker - March 24th, 4:30-6:30

[pvfirenice.livejournal.com]

For anyone who happens to be in the square tomorrow there will be a free rum tasting Thursday afternoon at The Boston Shaker with Brugal Rums. 

They will be sampling a couple of rums, rum cocktails and the best part rum cupcakes from Kickass Cupcakes!! 

From the Facebook events page:
Catherine from Brugal Rums will be swinging by The Shaker to offer up some great Dominican-style libations for your tasting pleasure.

On the menu for the afternoon will be the Maria Pickford Cocktail and the Monotonic Cocktail. And of course we'll have bottles of Brugal Rum's Blanco Especial and Anejo.

If the promise of libations alone isn't sweet enough to tempt you, we will also be serving two specially commissioned cupcakes from Kickass Cupcakes in Davis Square. Yum, yum!

Catherine will also be raffling off some special items all afternoon so swing by the shop anytime between 4:30 and 6:30pm for some sweet libations, sweet treats and special prizes!

Hope to see you there!

Comments

[ron_newman]

Thanks for posting this. Could you please edit in the address, 69 Holland Street ? Thanks.

(A link to the Facebook page would also be useful.)

That is GOOD rum

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Now, I am ethnically (which is like ethically, but different) required to say that there is no rum better than Puerto Rican Rum (Don Q Gran Añejo, to be precise, is really the best thing there is...) BUT, if you can't have Puerto Rican rum, Brugal is some of the best the Dominican Republic has to offer.

Parenthetically, Ten Cane out of Trinidad (I think?) is one of the only cane juice rums available in this country--the rest are molasses rums. Just sayin' ... worth a compare and contrast.

ALAS, I am teaching elsewhere at precisely that time or (as you could tell!) I would so be there!!

Re: That is GOOD rum

[ron_newman]

Over a century ago, the best rum came from ... Medford!

Re: That is GOOD rum

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Aaaaand you can check out the creepy Triangle Trade mural about this at the Medford post office, yes.

Re: That is GOOD rum

[ron_newman]

Medford rum production continued long after the slave trade ended, however.

Re: That is GOOD rum

[doogly.livejournal.com]

If you want one made out of cane juice rather than molasses, wouldn't this be cachaca?

Re: That is GOOD rum

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

That's a fine question that I don't know the answer to! Homemade cane moonshine in PR is called cañita. Cachaça is, as I understand it, Portuguese. I don't know as much about that.

Re: That is GOOD rum

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Barbancourt (Hatian) claims to be a cane juice rum, and it's my absolute favorite. I believe Downtown Spirits stocks the 4, 8, and 15 year-old versions.