UK Rumfest 2013 - Other Events

LFT Little fragrant Tiare Tiki Socialite Joined: Oct 12, 2007 Posts: 211	LFT Little fragrant Tiare Posted posted on Thu, Oct 24, 2013 10:33 AM I wish i had been in here and seen your first post AdOrAdam, then we could hooked up instead of both sitting at Martins seminar without knowing it! i`d have loved to say hello! oh well.. As you probably saw on my two posts about the Rumfest on my blog i haven`t written any of the less positive impressions i had from this years rumfest - but i`m gonna write down all my thoughts on it and mail to Ian to give him feedback. It´s clear that it starts to become a bit "too big" with more rowdy ppl than it was the last time i was there in 2011. I expected the Connaisseur´s Cove to be calm like the Boutique Rumfest was in 2011, filled with interesting rums you haven´t seen before. But instead it was almost as crowded as the main area and me for one didn´t get any chance to talk very much to the producers except for a very few. Then also, i didn´t see much new...just a few like for example the Cubay rum.Luckily for me they were neighbours to us the day before the rumfest when we did set up the stand for st Nicholas Abbey Rum so then i got a chance to chat with them because when the event was on there was no time at all, they were swamped. The Boutique Rumfest was really calm but my impression from there was that i wish it had been bigger, like it was in 2011 when Boutique Rumfest had it´s own day. This time there were much fewer rums in there to try. Something i really missed was stations where you could sit and charge your iphone...i had to go out on the hunt in the "corridor" and eventually found a place to use one time.next time i`m gonna have a portable charger with me:-) Also i missed seminars due to i had no idea when they were going to be before the Rumfest started. Next time i hope to see more interesting rums, small batch rums and hard to find rums like the privatly bottled demeraras for example and also much more rhum agricoles! i also would like to see the Connaisseur´s Cove less crowded...and in general less overly drunk people who are there only to get drunk but that´s kinda hard to avoid when the event keeps getting bigger. But i def had a blast, no doubt about that and London is a city full of very very good cocktail bars.

I wish i had been in here and seen your first post AdOrAdam, then we could hooked up instead of both sitting at Martins seminar without knowing it! i`d have loved to say hello! oh well..

As you probably saw on my two posts about the Rumfest on my blog i havent written any of the less positive impressions i had from this years rumfest - but im gonna write down all my thoughts on it and mail to Ian to give him feedback.

It´s clear that it starts to become a bit "too big" with more rowdy ppl than it was the last time i was there in 2011.

I expected the Connaisseur´s Cove to be calm like the Boutique Rumfest was in 2011, filled with interesting rums you haven´t seen before. But instead it was almost as crowded as the main area and me for one didn´t get any chance to talk very much to the producers except for a very few.

Then also, i didn´t see much new...just a few like for example the Cubay rum.Luckily for me they were neighbours to us the day before the rumfest when we did set up the stand for st Nicholas Abbey Rum so then i got a chance to chat with them because when the event was on there was no time at all, they were swamped.

The Boutique Rumfest was really calm but my impression from there was that i wish it had been bigger, like it was in 2011 when Boutique Rumfest had it´s own day. This time there were much fewer rums in there to try.

Something i really missed was stations where you could sit and charge your iphone...i had to go out on the hunt in the "corridor" and eventually found a place to use one time.next time i`m gonna have a portable charger with me:-)

Also i missed seminars due to i had no idea when they were going to be before the Rumfest started.

Next time i hope to see more interesting rums, small batch rums and hard to find rums like the privatly bottled demeraras for example and also much more rhum agricoles! i also would like to see the Connaisseur´s Cove less crowded...and in general less overly drunk people who are there only to get drunk but that´s kinda hard to avoid when the event keeps getting bigger.

But i def had a blast, no doubt about that and London is a city full of very very good cocktail bars.

Post #697378 by Little fragrant Tiare on Thu, Oct 24, 2013 10:33 AM