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What We’ll Drink in 2020, According to Bacardi's Annual Trends Report

The new survey predicts a big year for mocktails, dark rum and sustainability

The 100 Biggest Moments in American Booze Since Prohibition

Looking back on a century of unprecedented innovation and inebriation

The Best New Spirits of 2019 Have One Thing in Common

Versatility, unique flavors and science are the new drinking paradigms

As Trader Vic’s Plans a Comeback, We Need to Reexamine Tiki Bars

Cultural appropriation (and misrepresentation) harms a worthy cocktail trend

The Mai Tai Needs a Reboot. Here Are Three Variations You’ll Love.

The classic tiki cocktail just turned 75, but its best years are ahead

How to Not Look Like a Novice the Next Time You Smoke a Cigar

As told by the fourth-generation Cuban maker who just opened a rum-and-cigar bar in DC

The Best Rums Under $30, According to Bar Professionals

Making daiquiris? Sipping it neat? Our expert bar panel’s got the tipple for you.

The Best Rum Bar in America Is in Chicago

The Bamboo Room is a personalized tour of rum’s past and future

You Should Judge a Bar by How They Make a Daiquiri

It’s one of six basic cocktails — and the one most likely to get screwed up.

A Heritage Rum Railway Just Opened in Barbados

All aboard the Jack Sparrow Express

This Date Plan Involves a Million-Ball Ball Pit, and Other Jovial Things

How to make a night of Snarkitecture’s immersive ‘Beach’

Here Are 5 Excellent Rums to Stock in Your Home Bar

As chosen by the world’s leading rum expert

The 30 Best Bottles of Booze Under $30

Price isn't always an indicator of quality.

7 Caribbean Islands That Need Your Time and Money, Post-Hurricane

Shipwreck diving, catfish tacos, cliff-top bungalows and more

5 Highly Underrated Latin American Spirits Every Home Bar Needs

Mexican rum, Bolivian grape brandy and pisco. Let's review.

It’s Time to Go on a Rum Vacation. The Caribbean Needs You.

Why you should be making reservations, not canceling them

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News, advice and insights for the most interesting person in the room.

Review: Holmes Cay Might Be the Best Rum Curator on the Planet

These limited-edition bottlings of nearly impossible-to-find rums showcase the spirit’s most interesting characteristics

ReserveBar Is Taking $20 Off Everything From These BIPOC- and Women-Owned Spirits Brands

As part of its Spirited Change Initiative, the site is spotlighting several minority- and women-owned businesses

How This Book and Rum Collaboration Honor “The Ideal Bartender”

Ten To One Rum's “Kindred Spirits” is a sequel to the groundbreaking 1917 cocktail book and a celebration of Black mixologists

The Best Vodka, Gin, Rum and Other Spirits We Drank in 2021

Herein: A legitimately flavorful vodka. A Filipino-Polish rum. And Serbian plum brandy.

This Is What You’ll Be Drinking in 2022

Bacardi's 2022 Trends Report suggests tipplers will head for gin, low-alcohol options and, somehow, mustard

Welcome to the Only Distillery Run by a Former CIA Operative

Brian Sammons used to track Osama bin Laden. Now, he makes award-winning craft spirits in Wisconsin.

NY’s Best New Bar Is a House Party a Heart of Gold

Dingaling's cocktail menu includes a Mexican Coffee Negroni, Grasshopper and our favorite: the Banana Bread Daiquiri

Mount Gay's Experimental Rum Series Debuts an Unknown Oak

Pretty much no one is aging spirits in Andean Oak. Can this 14-year old rum survive?

This Rum and Cognac Brand Just Debuted the World’s First Floating Aging Cellar

Maison Ferrand's Barge 166 will be used to conduct "dynamic aging" experiments

The Simple, Slightly Sweet Joys of a Dry-Aged Rum Steak

Meat N’ Bone’s dry-aging process starts with Diplomatico’s award-winning Reserva Exclusiva rum

Review: Can LiveWire Turn Bartenders Into Rock Stars?

A new canned cocktail line models itself like a cool indie label

5 Great New Takes on the Old Fashioned That Won’t Offend Your Father

Simple alterations with coffee, honey, rum, salt or even curry can transform a classic cocktail

Review: Batiste Might Be the World’s First “Carbon Negative” Rhum

How exacting attention to eco-friendly practices leads to an excellent sugarcane spirit

The Best Thing About Rum? You Can Mix It With Other Rums.

Two or three different rums in a drink? Not a problem, say our rum experts.

On the Proper Care and Feeding of Flasks

Second-generation maker Robert Ettinger walks us through the dos and don’ts of flask care

The 24 Most Interesting Rums to Try in 2021

Our list favors diversity in distillers, flavors and locations — and eschews pirates.