Rum
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A Cocktail that “Tastes Like Vacation”
Charlotte’s Optimist Hall welcomes a sophisticated new cocktail bar—Billy Sunday. Get a sample of what they’re serving up with this refreshing drink
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Discover Cuba’s Other Rum Cocktail: El Presidente
Get to know an overlooked classic drink
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A Shot of Redemption
Jägermeister returns, newly respectable
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Classic West Indian Punch
Think of this history-steeped blend of sweetened tea and rum as a template— and then tweak it
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Champagne Punch
Bubbly enlivens a refreshing post-prohibition mix
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The Zombie: Classic Cocktail with a Southern Twist
This drink fueled the mid-twentieth-century tiki craze. But the original recipe was lost for decades—until a New Orleans cocktail historian decoded it
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Dark ’n Stormy: Classic Cocktails with a Southern Twist
The Bermudian blend of Gosling’s rum and ginger can cool down a summer beach day or warm-up a wintery night
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Blended La Floridita Daiquiri
A serious frozen cocktail from Houston’s Anvil Bar & Refuge
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Queen City Swizzle
A North Carolina spin on a Caribbean classic
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Spiced Rum Grows Up
Southern distillers add depth to an oft-sophomoric spirit
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A Night in the Ninth
Spiced rum gets the New Orleans cocktail treatment
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A Daytime Daiquiri
A lighter take on the classic from an acclaimed North Carolina restaurant
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Peach Infused Rum Cocktail (a.k.a. Bob from Carskadon)
Named after a bar regular who has a strong inclination toward rum, the key to this cocktail is the peach-infused liquor
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Meet the Southside
A refreshing rum-and-mint sipper for the horse-country set
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Hot Conner Browne
A buttery rum cocktail from Asheville’s Tupelo Honey Café
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Rum Old-Fashioned
A slight variation on the classic of classics
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Rum Al Pastor
A cocktail with tropical charm
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Light Dragoon’s Punch
The return of a classic Charleston cocktail
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American Orange Punch
Party like it’s 1829
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10 Essential Bottles of Rum
Experience the original drink of the colonies