Post #701378 by Sunny&Rummy on Fri, Dec 6, 2013 4:19 AM

Prohibition, Repeal, and Hurricanes in a nutshell: After Repeal American whiskey was almost non-existant as it had 't been legally produced in 13 years and new production was by definition very slow to ramp up. Caribbean rum was cheap and plentiful as it had never ceased production and spirits distributors were basically demanding that for every case of the rare whiskey a bar bought they also had to buy as much as 10-12 cases of rum. Pat O'Brien's solution for what to do with all that rum was the Hurricane. Jeff Berry essentially extends this to all Tiki drinks. After 200 years of neglect America learned to drink rum again (and bartenders learned how to mix with it) in the 1930s and 1940s because it was cheap and widely available. If there is one, this is Prohibition's silver lining.