Post #411590 by Ojaitimo on Sat, Oct 4, 2008 5:59 AM

Here is Ben Jones the VP and GM of Rhum Clement in LA at a tasting last spring.
Quite a story about his great great grandfather. Did anyone meet him at Tiki Oasis?
I use the Creole Schrub which is expensive too but at 1/2 oz per drink, lasts longer than their rhums do at 2oz-3oz per drink.

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Rhum Clement "Creole Shrubb"; Martinique Rum 80 proof
A blend of the finest white rhums and aged rhums with macerated bitter orange peels and exotic Créole spices married together in oak barrels.....

History

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, Martinique was the source of the highest quality of sugar for Europe and was the epicenter for all Caribbean sugar commerce. By 1883, a great sugar crisis overtook the island because European countries used less expensive sugar from South and Central America, In 1887, Homere Clement, the mayor of Le Francois, purchased the prestigious sugar plantation in his village.
Out of banlrupsy. His intentions were simply to stop the rioting planter’s and have them return to the fields to harvest sugarcane again, not to be refined into sugar, but to be pressed for their natural juice and to distill rum. He took the imaginative idea from the brandy producers of southern France who were distilling grape wine into Cognacs. Homere is now coined as the father of Agricole.