By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Editor & Publisher The week after the intensity of a weekend in Tuscaloosa for the Third Saturday of October, the annual Alabama-Tennessee college football game, PubClub.com photographer Jack Fleming found himself relaxing at a tiki bar in Naples, FL. Kick-back Jack wandered into the Sand Bar Ritz Carlton in Naples, drawn by a sign … [Read more...]
Rum Lovers Will Go Overboard At LA Rum Festival – 2023 Date, Ticket Info & Information
Rum, rum and more rum. That's what you get at the second annual Los Angeles Rum Festival, a/k/a SoCal Rum Fest, a boutique-style event that showcases handful of brands that emphasize the education and premium aspects of rum. Did you know that California alone is one of the largest rum consumer markets in the USA? This post has everything you need to know about the Los … [Read more...]
Red Rocker Sammy Hagar’s Favorite Summertime Cocktail Recipes
If anyone knows as much about cocktails as PubClub.com – heck, maybe even more – it's Sammy Hagar, the Red Rocker. After all, he's got a song called "Mas Tequila." And as someone who loves living in the sunshine getting a tan and tossing back a few, he naturally has a few personal favorites for the warmest time of the year. Here are some of Sammy Hagar's favorite summertime … [Read more...]
Zacapa Rum Teams With Baccarat At 2023 Tony Awards With Fans Sweepstakes
Zacapa Rum isn't giving its regrets to Broadway, but rather celebrating it. For the 2023 Tony Awards, which recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre, Zacapa is teaming up with luxury brand Baccarat to create a VIP Speakeasy lounge for the stars of the show. It will feature special cocktails created just for the event using Zacapa XO rum. It is named the Zacapa XO x … [Read more...]
Attention Dark ‘n’ Stormy Lovers: Uncle Waithley’s Ginger Beer Is REALLY Good
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger As any sailor knows it's good to avoid stormy seas. Except when it comes to the Dark 'n' Stormy cocktail, of course. Created in storm-heavy Bermuda in the 1800s, this drink has a connection to the sea and the men and women who work and play on it. For the ginger beer to use, Uncle Waithley’s Vincy Brew makes for smooth sailing … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day Cocktail Recipes For Mom Other Than Champagne & Mimosas
Mother's Day is a May tradition that honors mom, of course, and all good children help her celebrate by sending her flowers, perhaps some chocolate, taking her to a lunch or brunch or some other form of appreciation. Since it is a celebration, champagne and mimosas are often a part of it, but there are cocktail alternatives. Zacapa Rum and Ketel One Vodka have created some … [Read more...]
Golden Monkey Tiki Lounge Is A New Tiki Bar On The Las Vegas Strip
There is a new tiki bar in town and this one is the only tiki bar on the Las Vegas Strip. The Golden Tiki Lounge is one of 15 bars and lounges at Resorts World Las Vegas on the north end of the Strip. Replacing the Genting Palace Lounge, the Golden Tiki Lounge has tiki decor and, of course, the wild and exotic drinks that are a major attraction of all tiki bars – the Mai … [Read more...]
National Rum Day Is Aug. 16 And Here’s The Mai Tai Recipe
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Senior Rum Blogger Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Or rum in a cocktail. A boat drink, as Jimmy Buffett fans call them. National Rum Day is Aug. 16, and while that's enough to bring out the pirate and wench in some souls. In2022 it it falls on a Tuesday. So ditch Taco Tuesday for a week. Make it a day/evening and/or night of rum … [Read more...]
Cool Rum Drinks & Recipes Featuring Ron Barcelo Dominican Republic Rums
These Boat Drinks Will Take You Sailing To The Caribbean Get by a boat – or, if you've got access to one, get on a boat – and turn on the Eric Stone or Jimmy Buffett music. It's time for some rum drinks. Using the excellent, high-quality Ron Barcelo rums of the Dominican Republic, here are recipes for three creative drinks that will cool the soul as well as put you … [Read more...]
Go Bananas With This Rum Drink From Ron Barcelo
Viejo Dominicano Combines Plantain Syrup With High-Quality Rum In a nod to its Dominican Republic heritage, Ron Barcelo rum has created a new cocktail called Viejo Dominicano. And you may just go bananas over it. That's because it contains plantain syrup to give it a banana flavor. Mixed with the high-quality Ron Barceló Imperial rum, it's a taste of the … [Read more...]
A Rum Drink Recipe Inspired By Movember Mustache Month
'The Doctor' Is A Frothy Cocktail To Make Anyone Feel Better By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Cocktails Blogger November is the month when men grow mustaches and beards to raise awareness of men's heath issues. Known as Movember it even has its own organization. And now it has it's own cocktail, of sorts. The Doctor is a drink created by Villa Azur Restaurant … [Read more...]
The Best Places To Have Rum Drinks In The Caribbean With Local Rums
Drinking Destinations In Barbados, Curaçao, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts & Virgin Islands Rum and the Caribbean go together like the area's blue water and sailboats and are paired together in concoctions like the Pain Killer and the ever-present rum punch. Here's some places to enjoy drinking various types, styles of rum and creative cocktails while cruising through the … [Read more...]
November Is Half-Priced Navy Grogs At Rock ‘n Fish Manhattan Beach
Strong Rum Drink A Salute To The South Bay's Tradition In a salute to the traditional drink of the South Bay Beach Cities, Rock 'n Fish in Manhattan Beach features half-priced Navy Grogs for the entire month of November. They cost $7 ($14 regular price) and pack a pretty good wallop of alcohol. What is a Navy Grog? It's a rum-based concoction that is a very … [Read more...]
British Virgin Islands Bars By Boat Is A Dream Realized
Pain Killers at the Soggy Dollar Bar, Feeling Fine at Foxy's and Getting Naked at Willie T's All Part of the Ultimate BVIs Sailing Experience It has always been a fantasy of mine to bar hop – by boat – to the bars in the Virgin Islands. The appeal is obvious – rum drinks on tropical beaches. Warm weather, the water right there to jump in and cool off, and beaches in … [Read more...]
Premium Rum Consumption On The Rise
Tiki Bars & Drinks Not Part Of This Spirits Trend There are always shifts in the spirits industry when one liquor becomes the trendy thing to drink. Recently it was bourbon. And now it's rum. High-end rum. According to the IMSR, a liquor and wine information source, high-end rum sales increased by 7.7 % to just more than $2 billion in in 2014. IWSR predicts this … [Read more...]
Rum Should Be the Next Trendy Spirits Liquor
With All The Vodka, Tequila and Whiskey Available in Bars, This Blogger Wants to Know Where's The Rum!? Blogger's note: This was originally published a couple of years ago and guess what - it's happened! Go to any bar – be it a dive or a high-end nightclub – and brands and kinds of vodka are plentiful, there's a choice of tequilas and there is likely also a variety of … [Read more...]
Dockside Tropical Cafe Florida Keys Top Live Music Bar
TropRock Tunes In Marathon There's a bar that's just not by the dock, it actually is the dock. It has doors that don't lock – as well as a few that do – and there's music not just playing on the radio, but also on the stage. And, like Trop/Rock artist Eric Stone's song says it's "Somewhere South of Somewhere." Mentally, anyway. It's Dockside Tropical Cafe in Marathon, … [Read more...]
Florida Keys Guide: 10 Ways To Know You’re Getting Keys Disease
Flip Flops, Bug Bites & Drinking With A Hangover It's Florida – the Florida Keys, specifically – and in case you zone out from all the activity and fun (and drinks) here's PubClub.com's list of the "Top 10 Ways To Know You Are In The Keys:" 1.) You are hungover yet still continue to drink. Heavily. 2.) You are hot. Morning, noon and night. 3.) Your feet and … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Florida Keys Driving Guide From Miami To Key West
A Mile Marker By Mile Marker Tour The key to fully experiencing Key West is not contained in some local bar or in a moment at sunset on Mallory Square. Instead, it is located some 100 miles to the northeast at the beginning of what is known as the Overseas Highway, a scenic two-lane road with water on both sides, 43 bridges and enough diversions to properly delay … [Read more...]
Best Bars In Avalon Catalina Island Nightlife Including The Karaoke Bar & Luau Larry’s
There's this One Particular Harbor, So far and yet so near... This song by Jimmy Buffett is not about Catalina Island, but the words do apply so appropriately. Catalina Island is near the sprawling city of Los Angeles, but when one changes latitudes the changes in attitudes follows as naturally as a sailboat to a sea breeze. From drinks on Descando Beach to the "noisy bar on … [Read more...]
Visiting The Original Pina Colada Bar Barrachina In Old Town San Juan
Reviewing The Birthplace Of This Caribbean Rum Cocktail Do you like Pina Coladas? It's a frozen concoction that implies a tropical setting, swaying palm trees and not checking e-mail for a few days to see what the boss might want you to do while you are away from work. Well you can thank a bartender at Barrachina in San Juan, Puerto Rico's Old Town for coming up … [Read more...]
Top Rum Drinks Of The Virgin Islands: Painkiller & Bushwacker Recipes
The BVIs & USVI's Official Cocktails As one would have beer in Germany, tequila in Mexico and wine in France and Italy, so is it with rum and rum drinks in the Caribbean. No matter where you go in the Caribbean, you will encounter rum. You will be around it almost as much the water that surrounds the islands. And frankly, that's not a bad thing at all. If … [Read more...]
A Night In A Los Angeles Tiki Bar With A Big Rum Drink
Curing Island Fever At The Purple Orchid Tiki Lounge In El Segundo Whenever I get island fever and can't get to an island, I go to a tiki bar. And when I go to a tiki bar, I can't help but having the most potent, rum-laced drink on the menu. And when I have the most potent, rum-laced drink on the menu I can't stop having it, at least not until my eyes start acting … [Read more...]
Kenny Chesney Drink Recipes For National Rum Day Aug. 16
Singer Who Lives In Virgin Islands Launches His Own Line Of Rums National Rum Day is Friday, Aug. 16. And Kenny Chesney – who walks around beaches in his music videos and lives in the Virgin Islands – has just launched a personal line of spirits called Blue Chair Bay Rum. The product (White, Coconut, Coconut Spiced) is not a celebrity endorsement. It's his own creation … [Read more...]
Tiki Bar Drinks And Talking Tiki Bars With Frankie’s Tiki Room Owner
Taking A Liquid Vacation With P Moss And Toasting His Book I had a few moments with the master, and it was like sitting down with Tommy Lasorda talking baseball or discussing trop/rock music with Jimmy Buffett. The subject was tiki bars and the drinks in tiki bars, and I was in the company of P Moss – or just simply Moss – who owns Frankie's Tiki Room in Las Vegas. He's … [Read more...]
Bahamas Breeze Drink Recipe And Swimming With A Shark in ‘Jaws’
Rum Kept Film Crew Buzzing During Spring Break And Filming Of Movie Guest Blog Post By Walt Clayton, Author, The Strykes Buns Guide www.bunsguide.com/ JAWS The Revenge, filmed on location in Nassau – dat be in da Bahamas, mon – was a terrible flick but a terrific gig to work on for us crew members. For three sweltering months I toiled as part of the underwater film crew: … [Read more...]
Mai Tais At The Waikiki Royal Hawaiian Lacking Original Rum Punch
Scratch The Old School Drink; The New One Is Not As Good Or Strong Perhaps I was spoiled. Well, I was spoiled. And I freely admit it. But when you get used to something and then it changes – and not for the better – you get a little bit out of kilter. I am referring to a changes to the signature drink at the Mai Tai bar at the Royal Hawaiian. That's where I usually … [Read more...]
Miami Rum Renaissance 2013 Features Rums, Parties And Experts
Luau Larry Is The Biggest Rum Expert The Blogger Knows In The World I'm wondering why my good friend Luau Larry is not being featured at this event. It's the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival and it has a tasting competition and an "Ask The Rum Expert" element. Well, Luau Larry is the biggest rum expert I know, and while I'm sure those on the panel are standouts, it's … [Read more...]