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Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki

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For instance, a “white” rum may be cheap, unaged swill, or it may be expertly crafted and aged for several years, then carbon filtered to remove the color for use in particular cocktails. If you limited yourself to the ingredients from the first palette, you could probably approximate a Donn Beach recipe from the early days of Tiki.

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Rum Through the Ages” provides great, easily understandable background on what rum is made from, as well as historical context explaining the evolution of key styles of rum: The heavy, pot-stilled rums from former colonies of England, sugar cane juice-based Rhum Agricole from the French colonies (most notably, Martinique and Guadeloupe), and the lighter, column stilled “Spanish style” rums from islands like Cuba and Puerto Rico. Of all the topics the book covers, I believe the section on categorizing rum and how it’s applied to the book’s recipes will generate the most discussion among the rum crowd.

There’s absolutely something to be said for experimenting with different rums within the same recipe. The Smuggler’s Cove book plunges into its classification system with all the necessary disclaimers in place. In addition to Smuggler’s Cove, Martin is also the co-owner of Hale Pele in Portland, OR, as well as a partner in Chicago’s Lost Lake and San Diego’s False Idol. As an aspiring rum wonk reading through Jeff Berry’s book back in 2007, I was starved for a classification system like this. The first palette naturally starts with Donn Beach, covering the birth of Tiki in the immediate post-Prohibition era.

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It would be beneficial if this additional nudge (in parenthesis) was used more widely throughout the recipes. The second palette (“Vic’s Additions”) builds on the first, adding things that Trader Vic brought to the table in the 1940s, including the aforementioned lemon juice and orgeat, as well as banana, tequila, gin, Pisco, and vermouth. Located in Rosscarbery, West Cork, Smugglers Cove is great stop for a day-trip or as part of your Wild Atlantic Way journey!

Although many bars include fire as part of their Tiki drink experience, most of them simply light overproof rum on fire, which yields only a small, blue flame. If you squeeze too hard to get the last few drops out, you’ll get a lot more bitterness from the skin oil and pith, which tastes bad in a drink. Your two examples are fairly extreme in that you’re comparing two dry rums against two sugar bombs, but your point would still be well made even if the nuances were more subtle.

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In the book you’ll find good overviews of key figures: Jeff Berry (of course), as well as Sven Kirsten ( The Book of Tiki), and Otto von Stoheim (Tiki Oasis). I learned it firsthand from Martin while spending days with him on a bus travelling to Jamaican distilleries as part of an ACR/WIRSPA sponsored tour. This is precisely what we want to showcase- we hope that readers will explore and find favorites, and what they enjoy mixing with most. g., “Jamaican”), the Smuggler’s Cove book becomes more accessible to the newcomer or a cocktail enthusiast without the space or funds to build up an extensive rum collection.A recent trend in the cocktail world is for high-end, world class “destination” bars and celebrity bartenders to further extend their brand and cement their reputation via authoring a book. We also hope it shows that categorization does not equal a lack of diversity or a stifling of creativity among producers- you can adhere to guidelines (whether AOC, WIRSPA, governmental, etc.

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