Rum Essays

This Page contains various essays of a more factual nature that relate to rums, as well as articles or short pieces I have contributed to other fora and various lists compiled for my own amusement. For more subjective matters, see the “Opinions” page.

General Essays

Rum – An Introduction – An intro to the site, and some words about rum
Classifying Rum – a brief rundown of the various styles or types of rum in common useage
The Proof’s In The Drinking – an explanation of ABV and proofs
The Matter of Ratings – A first pass at explaining my ambivalence about scoring (2010)
Stills, Stills and More Stills – Short essay on distillation methodologies
Single Digit Rums – musings on rums less than ten years old (and often younger)
Wives & the El Dorado Problem – how to afford your favourite tipple
Liquor Privatization and Deregulation in Alberta – A somewhat unfocussed look at deregulation as it affected this Canadian province.
Who was that masked man? – A series of thumbnail sketches of people who influenced the world of rum (also known as “Movers and Shakers of the Rum World.”)
A Short & Personal Essay on Agricole Rums (July 2017) for Coeur de Chauffe as part of a roundup of bloggers’ opinion on agricoles.
Some Miscellaneous Rum Trivia (August 2017) was written with contributions from across the blogosphere, in response to a guy on reddit who said he wanted some not-so-well-known factoids.
Rum Cask asked for a list of my three favourite rums of 2017, so I gave them three times that many in this short piece in January 2018; repeated the exercise in early 2019, and again in 2020.
The Age Of Velier’s Demeraras – Part 1 Background History to 2005 (June 2018)
The Age Of Velier’s Demeraras – Part 2 The Rums of the Age (June 2018)
The Age Of Velier’s Demeraras – Part 3 Legacy, Impact, Epilogue (June 2018)
12 Unusual Bottle Shapes and Designs…just because they existed and I felt like it (June 2019)
Big, Bad & Brutal – A Short History of the 151s (April 2020)
Plugging In To Rum- A Guide To Online Resources (November 2020) – A survey of the major websites and social media places that are available to rum fans who want to broaden their knowledge and engagement
Barrels, Butts, Casks, Kegs, Tubs, Vats and More…a roundup of the most common (and some not so common) containers used to store and age spirits (March 2021)

Shameless Plug Section: Mentions, Selfies & Interviews

November 2016 The RumLab kindly ran me through their ten point interview questionaire
May 2019 Rum Compass also asked me to weigh in.
April 2020 – Rumcast said some nice words about the site at around 22:30 of their podcast #6
July 2020 – RumCask put the ‘Caner on the stand and let me ramble on for 90 minutes about blogging and the state of the rumiverse. Link leads to a YouTube video which has now unfortunately been truncated at 22 minutes.
February 2021 – Japan Distilled, the online podcast-magazine of Japanese spirits, did a session on the nations rums and the ‘Caner came in for a hat tip around 28:17…probably because I talked to the guys on the subject when they were prepping it.
July 2021 – The Whisky Magazine issued their second Rum edition and gave The Lone Caner a small feature page alongside some other writers of note in the current rumworld.
July 2021 – The podcast RumCast and I talked about the Key Rums series of rums plus a look at various issues and what it takes to write the way I do. A Part II of my July 2020 interview, really.
August 2021 – A small piece in SMWS’s “Unfiltered” in house magazine, on why their members should be trying rums.

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