INOX Cachaca is on the loose, just in time for your warm weather caipirinha. Go to my "Flavored Rum" and the "Savor this Premium Rum" links for more info!
Love Rum? You betcha we do! Check this out, and SHOW UP ALREADY!!
Folks, this is the 'big one'. If you love rum, this is a "must see"! Come on down to Miami and revel in the rums!!
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Join me in Key West for the "Mel Fisher Days Street Carnival" on July 14, 4 to 9 PM! Two blocks of Duval Street are OURS!!! More info coming soon...............
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"Taste of the Beach OBX" March 16 & 17 was a HUGE success! Great drinks and great food, featuring Atlantico Rum www.atlanticorum.com and Pusser's British Navy Rum from the BVI! www.pussers.com Cruzan Rums also joined the fun! Check out the photos under the "Events" link and also on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.320682581329443.78869.100001631109628&type=1
Big thanks to Doug Tutwiler and the team at Pamlico Jack's!
www.pamlicojacks.com
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* Corsair Spiced Rum is out there, and you have to try it!! Check out my latest review of this tasty, tasty rum by clicking on my "Flavored Rums" link!
* Mix and savor the Atlantico Rum Banana Boat on the 'Featured Cocktail' link!
* Rum lovers in the Mid-Atlantic, rejoice!! Potomac Wine and Spirits has their website up, and their cane spirits catalog is super!! Check it out: www.potomacwines.com
Paul Artrip ‘The Rum Daddy’ www.therumdaddy.com is a well-known rum expert, bartender/mixologist, and rum aficionado with friends and connections in the United States and Europe. He is a proud member of Rum XP in the USA, The Academy of Rum Aficionados/UK Rum Experience, and the United States Bartenders Guild (USBG).
His extensive spirits collection includes over 300 rums, rons, rhums, and cachacas. Paul’s love of spirits ‘spilled’ over into his business, where he created Spirited Adventures, LLC, a brand ambassador, hospitality industry, and mixology consulting firm. Paul’s efforts and events in brand marketing and exposure bring significantly increased publicity and marketing opportunities for cane spirits to the public. Paul’s client list includes dozens of rum distilleries as well as other premium spirits, importers, bars, restaurants, and non-profit organizations. He is a sponsor for the Mel Fisher Celebrations in Key West. He also writes for private publications and Chilled Magazine.
Paul will serve again in 2012 as a judge in the International Rum Competition in Miami during RumRenaissance 2012. Paul also judged at the 2008 Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans, the 2007 and 2008 UK RumFest in London, England. the 2006 and 2007 International Cane Spirits Festivals in Ybor City, Florida, and is a repeating judge for the Barritt’s Ginger Beer Mixology Contest.
Paul combines his love of teaching with his desire to support the spirits industry. “I continue to be an enthusiastic student of spirits, constantly striving to learn. I thoroughly enjoy this journey, this exploration of the alchemy of fermentation, and love to share this journey with others.”
Paul Artrip is the owner of a spirits/cocktail focused marketing firm,
Spirited Adventures, LLC www.spiritedadventuresllc.com Paul performs tasting events, seminars, and bar/hospitality education in the USA, from New York and Connecticut to Key West and in between.
Paul has also represented Bacardi USA as the moderator at ‘The Long Legacy of Cuban Rum’ Seminar at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans 2009, performed brand ambassador consultations for Cockspur Rums (Hood River Distillery, Oregon, USA) during 2007 and 2008, and represented Cockspur in Miami at the 2008 Gifted Rums Magazine release event. Paul also presented American artisan rums at the Rum Renaissance Miami's inaugural event in May 2009, again in 2010, as well as in London, England in 2008. Paul started with tequila mixology, earning the Grand Prize Winner status in the charity-focused Margaritaville Tequila ‘Conky-Tonkin’ Concoction Contest’ in Key West 2005.
