RUM SHOP
TALK
A
visit to Barbados is a visit to the birthplace of rum
as we know it today. The fact that there are four
distilleries on the 21 x 14 mile island, theres no other
place where the rum culture more pronounced. From
your first step on to the island, you will see one or more
of the thousands of Rum Shops that cover our beautiful
country. These are the real everyday watering holes of
the island.
This is a place you walk in order a bottle of rum, a
mixer, a glass and a bowl of ice that you take to a chair
or something you can sit on and enjoy your
cocktail. You will find yourself with the rest of the
locals playing dominos or cards, fellow tourists looking
around in disbelief and everyone else of who know what
origin.
The countryside is dotted with old sugar mills and
remnants of the once dominant sugar industry that made
the island so important to the British in the
1700’s. There is a large sugar mill museum as well as
several old cane crushing windmills left on the
island. One of the more complete sugar plantations is
the St. Nicolas Abbey. There they still grow the sugar
cane, crush it, and make rum on the plantation. Larry
Warren and his family have brought this majestic old
sugar plantation back from the brink of collapse to a
wonderful snipit of life in the colonial days in Barbados.
While on the island, you would be remiss not to take the
time to travel around the island and see all of the
beautiful scenery.
Visit a couple of distilleries and
many rum shops, or take a trip around the island to see
the destinations was as enjoyable as anything we
say. No visit to Barbados would be complete without a
tour of our local hang outs and enjoying local traditions.
Not only in drinking of local brews but meeting the true
Bajan’s and tasting our delicious dishes, recipes passed
through generations. Explore our country with Strictly
Bajan Rum Shop Tours.
Keep in mind that the Rums of Barbados are wonderful,
from the inexpensive rums to the finest anywhere. Old
Brigand and Special Barbados Rums are great examples
of inexpensive rums made in Barbados. If you taste
calls for a more high end rum may I suggest Doorly’s
XO, Cockspur 12 Yr Old or Mount Gay 10 Yr Old.
Don’t miss an opportunity to see the island and sip the
many fine rums that the island has to offer in one of the
many Rum Shops. Drink the local Beer, Banks Beer and
if you are drinking Rum try it with the local
chaser Claytons Kola Tonic. Keep an eye out for cheap
drinks offers theres always one. Also food in the Rum
Shops is usually of a really good standard, particularly
the flying fish.
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