When Georgia gained statehood in the 1700s, individual colonists drank an estimated four gallons of rum a year. A 30-year ban ...

Dripping in three centuries of history, with some dark periods in the rum distiller’s legacy, Mount Gay was (ironically) originally owned by John Sober in the 1700s. Known as the Oxford plantation, in ...

We say fizzy; they say cordial. We say wombat; they say badger. Their yaffler is our loudmouth, and tisher a local nickname for DIY cigarette paper. Meanwhile a humdinger, or anything exceptional, is ...

Distinct from the liquor, this second rum derives from the Romany language, where rom means man, or husband. Add a dram of canting slang, the coded talk among criminals from the 1700s, and rum ...