Posts Tagged ‘rum’

Yo-Ho-Ho — a tour of Old New Orleans Rum

// February 1st, 2012 // 3 Comments » // Places Tour Guide Bob Songy demonstrates the wares

It may be the best-kept secret in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood – a small batch, premium rum distillery operating from a warehouse tucked into an industrial pocket of Frenchmen Street. “We’re definitely off the beaten path, you know?” says Parker Schonekas, General Manager of Celebration Distillation, makers of Old New Orleans Rum. You’d expect rum …read more…

Touring Casa Bacardi — World’s Largest Rum Distillery

// April 16th, 2011 // 19 Comments » // Food, Places Bacardi

San Juan, Puerto Rico – When you’re talking 100,000 gallons of rum distilled every day, 365 days a year, you’re talking a LOT of rum.  20 million cases a year worth. That’s a lot of Mojitos. From its humble beginnings in 1862 in Santiago de Cuba, Bacardi is now the largest distiller of premium rum in the world. …read more…