Post #3978 by thejab on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 12:00 PM

The rum craze has already started a while ago here in the Bay Area. There is a bar on Haight Street that's been there for about 3 years called Hobson's Choice that specializes in rum. They make a rum punch daily and have a great selection of rums. Now if the clientele were tolerable...

Did anyone see the new show on the food network about booze? They went to Jamaica and visited the Appleton Rum distillery (part of Wray and Nephew Co.). Unfortunately, the host was a irritating American "dude" wearing a backwards baseball cap.

I tried the Trader Vic's gold rum in Hawaii and thought it was so-so. It was cheap and tasted like it.

I just learned that Myers's (grammatical error isn't mine - check the bottle!) Rum is only dark because they add lots of caramel coloring to it. Rum cannot get that color by aging in charred barrels (it can only turn gold color).