Rum Curious : The Indispensable Tasting Guide to the World's Spirit

The recipe for a great audiobook, Rum Curious teaches how to fully appreciate this versatile and varied spirit! Once the drink of sailors and swashbuckling pirates, rum is the most versatile - and the most varied - spirit in the world. It is consumed neat as a sipping drink, on the rocks, and in a dizzying variety of cocktails like the mai tai, mojito, and piña colada. In Rum Curious, author Fred Minnick first takes the listener on a whirlwind tour of the world of rum, describing its many styles, explaining the great variety of fermenting, distilling, and maturing processes, and highlighting distillers and distilleries. He then teaches the listener about tasting rum - revealing the experience offered by brands ranging from the familiar to the unusual and obscure. A final section provides recipes for classic and innovative rum cocktails from around the world. Rum Curious is the one book the listener will need to understand and appreciate rum in all its glorious variety.