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Modern Caribbean Rum

Modern Caribbean Rum

This ultimate rum guide takes you deep inside today's rum world in its 850 pages. Detailed looks at 75 rum distilleries in 20 Caribbean countries, alongside many chapters on rum production and the rum business. Winner of the 2023 Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits.

Hardcover, 850 pages

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Author(s): Matt PIetrek & Carrie Smith

ISBN 978-0-578-27139-2

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Modern Caribbean Rum is the is the ultimate rum guide for enthusiasts and professionals alike. 850 pages and 900 images tell the story of Caribbean rum as never before.

Part One: Chapters on rum basics, rum history, misconceptions, and classifications, including why "white rum", "dark rum," "gold rum", and "overproof rum" aren't useful categories.

Part Two: Six chapters covering source material, rum fermentation, rum distillation, rum aging, rum blending, and flavor science at a deep yet engaging level.

Part Three: The business of rum, with chapters on the types of rum brands, sourced and bulk rum, rum geographical indications, trade organizations, and much more.

Part Four: Over 500 pages take you inside 75 distilleries in 20 Caribbean rum-making regions, including Mount Gay, Appleton Estate, Foursquare, Bacardi, Worthy Park, Saint-James, and Diplomatico.

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A perfect gift to myself

I'm absolutely in love with how well put together and the immense amount of knowledge in the book, I can't wait to get my hands on more from Wonk Press

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Anonymous
IT is Great

A fundamental knowledge base for Epicure of Rum spirits

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Customer
A very enjoyable read and a tribute to decades of research

Everything you wanted to know about rum plus more! A fantastic compilation with great photos. The history of rum and rum making is fascinating. Matt very eloquently sets the record straight on some of the myths and legends of this great drink.

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Dayton Owens
Amazing Detailed information

If you want to learn about rum/Rhum then this is the book. It is an encyclopedia of rum but reads much better than that. I bought two of them. I kept one and gave one as a gift to a fellow rum lover.

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Roy Main
Great Book! Well worth it!

I'm still working my way through this book. Such is the amount of information. It's basically an encyclodpedia on Rum. It obviously took years of observation, learning, and writing to put this together. And it's well illustrated with photos and charts.

If you ever wanted to peek inside the Rum industry, learn some of the technical aspects of making rum, grab this one while you can. The one fault I have is that it's too big to read in bed! There is that much material. So you're really getting several books worth of information in this one tome.

Well done Matt, and I'm glad you guys sent me an opportunity to submit a review. Thank you!

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