National Rum Day is the good reason anyone ever celebrated August 16th ( sorry , natal day son Steve Carell ) . In fact , rum was this country ’s preferred drink before we even had a nation to keep its daytime . Back in the 18th century , rum was one of the Colonies ' biggest exports . It was the basis for almost every cocktail .
Today , we still enjoy rum , but with far few powdered wig and much more fun . Rum is the go - to sociable that fills summer party . And if partying all summertime is n’t a movement desirable of a vacation , it ’s only because it probably merit the full three months .
Whether your reason are historical or planning tomorrow ’s company , rum is the correct call .
Rum is the historical drink of the Americas
Ye gentlefolk , rum is an ancient life , and no one may talk of whence it come . One affair ’s for sure , though : rummy has been get the party going since prison term out of mind .
Production - wise , the most lineal ascendant of what we now enjoy as rum was made from sugarcane juice or " guarapo " in the 17th 100 . Given that the first known record of rummy come in the 1620s , and that by then it was swig everywhere from Brazil to Sweden , you look your bippy there was rummy – or something like rum – whirl around cups in the 1500s . And it was all made in the westerly hemisphere . Rum has the proud claim of being a boozing of the new world . Hey , that ’s us !
Rum is the comeback kid
By the 19th century , rummy had become cheap and coarse , basically firewater . It fell to a Spanish wine merchant named Facundo Bacardí Massó to guss it back up to its former rod . Using the in force science available in the mid-1800s ( which was , surprisingly , more than just center of newt and a Bible of spells ) , he pioneered barm and filtration techniques favorable to a fluent rum . The Modern , more toothsome drunkenness became popular because everyone sleep together an melioration .
Everybody loves a riposte level . It ’s why your dad still cry watchingThe rude .
Rum made America possible
You have it off what was fearful ? urine in the eighteenth century . You bang what was n’t ? Grog , the crapulence of alternative for sailors . You know who enable Washington ’s victory by upsetting the British supply chain ? Those same Panama , safely hydrated thanks to their rations of grog , a mixture of rummy with piss .
In fact , at the same clip , rum was distilled in New England , and a quality rummy was an acceptable currency in any port , which actually made it better than many nations ' effectual attendant ( You do n’t have to pay off fees on an exchange rate when you ’re take root your bank note in rummy ) . Also , it was belike easier to counterfeit a foreign country ’s money than good rummy .
Rum – like America – is diverse
There are a great many sort of rum even before we get into the flavored varieties . You ’ve arrive your dark rummy , your white rum , your añejo rum , which is extra - of age , flavored rums … the leaning go on and on .
Taken on their own , each has its merits , of course , but combinations are what yield not bad conception – for lesson , the composite acculturation of tiki , spanning from the Caribbean to the South Pacific , and its iconic drink , the Mai Tai ( which itself is a composite of two kinds of rum ) .
Hang on , is the entire story of rummy just a metaphor for America ?
It’s the perfect summer drink
Rum is not bad fit for the dead August days on the beach . A inclination of summertime cocktails is almost inevitably a litany of rummy deglutition ( okay , and mint mint julep , to be mediocre ) .
Is there any better potable than a perfumed and savory cocktail of fruit succus , rum , and a splash of citrus fruit ? No . No sir , there is not . Because summer is all about unstrain and just savor the simple pleasance , and rum is that to a T.
Rum isn’t stringent
Most liquors have set ( or several set of ) standards for what truly constitutes the term . And they ’re all fairly arbitrary , which is how you may have corn spirits that is n’t technically Bourbon dynasty , and why bourbon can never be scotch .
But rum is n’t like that . Is it made from the sugars in sugarcane ? Yep , that ’s rum . Even molasses ? Yep . Even saturated sugarcane succus ? Yep ! ( Though the Brazilians will repugn that that ’s cachaça , in which no molasses is allowed . )
That ’s why rum is so great . Its very cosmos is a reminder to chill out , kick off your shoes , dance a short , and laugh with your friends – like your forefather before you .
