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And the Winner of our VIP RumFest Escape Sweepstakes is…

Botran Rum at the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival/SBPR

Congratulations Robert J. Wasserman of Charlestown, South Carolina – you’re the big winner of our VIP RumFest Escape sweepstakes! As with all our giveaways, Robert’s name was chosen at random from among all the entries, but it seems we couldn’t have hand-picked a better recipient of the two VIP passes to the 2012 Miami Rum Renaissance Festival (+ $500) than this rum-lover. Earlier today, I asked him to tell me his favorite rum. Check out part of his answer:

…I have several I reach for. My real favorite is my own recipe spiced (and spicy) rum that i make from either Cruzan dark or Doorly’s with a dash of overproof.

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So, You Wanna’ Be a Rum Judge, eh? Here’s One Way…

2012 Miami Rum Renaissance Festival

Beautiful rhums in Martinique, a secret rum stash in Tobago, a super spy rum from Cuba (by way of Scotland), a DomRep bush rum fit for an adventurer – we’ve had a great time sharing tales of these rums, and other rum-related subjects, during our first-ever Month of Rum celebration.
As our concentrated focus on the quintessential Caribbean spirit comes to a close tonight, we’re coming full-circle with a bit of news about a cool new component to the event that inspired our Month of Rum in the first place.

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Steve
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Win 2 VIP Passes to the 2012 Miami Rum Renaissance Festival + $500

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That’s right, we’re kicking our Month of Rum celebration into high-gear with the launch of a new VIP RumFest Escape sweepstakes, offering you the chance to hang with us at the 2012 Miami Rum Renaissance Festival!
The World’s Sexiest Rum Party, as designated by yours truly, the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival is also a serious celebration of the world’s finest rums, and everything that makes them so. Everybody who’s anybody in the world of rum is there – legendary master blenders lead seminars, celebrity mixologists create inventive new libations for the cocktail competition, top rum manufacturers host VIP parties, and rum experts judge more than 100 different rums as part of the prestigious RumXP Competition.

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Caribean Wallpaper Wednesday: The Beautiful Women of Brooklyn’s Carnival Festivities

West Indian Carnival Festival, Brooklyn, New York

Beautiful women. Colorful, barely there outfits. Feathers. Sequins. Sun. Curry. Dhalpuri. Stew Chicken. Maubi. Sorrel. Towers of chest rattling speakers weighing down 18-wheelers.
This. Is. Carnival!
As Steve previously revealed, neither of us Uncommon Caribbean brothers have had the pleasure of playing mas in our ancestral island home of Trinidad (will 2012 finally be the year?), but I never miss the West Indian Carnival Parade every Labor Day here in Brooklyn, New York… Well, never except this year.
Yeah, sadly this year I’ll actually be on-site somewhere in the Caribbean—exploring off-the-beaten-path sites, tastes and adventures to report back on for all of you, our well-travelled readers.

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Steve
Steve

Counting Down to the 2011 Miami Rum Renaissance Festival

Bikini-clad bartenders/SBPR

Spring is here, and in the Caribbean that can only mean one thing: RUM!
(Okay, any season is a good for enjoying rum, but follow me a bit on this, please…)
Spring is the traditional harvest time for sugar cane in the Caribbean. Known as La Zafra in Spanish-speaking countries, the harvest period actually begins in January/February and extends into May, allowing for plenty of time to develop the molasses by-product of sugar production so essential to most producing most of our favorite rums.
It’s fitting, then, that this is also about the time when all rum lovers everywhere should be gearing up to head to South Florida for the annual Miami Rum Renaissance Festival.

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Steve
Steve

Uncommon Beauty: 2011 Caribbean Carnivals Across the USA

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Let’s say you’re like me and somehow, despite all your best efforts, you continue to miss out on the annual spate of Carnival celebrations held throughout the region each year. After crying in my Carib while writing about my latest missed opportunity, I decided to re-think my strategy. My new mantra: If I can’t get down to the Caribbean for Carnival, I’ll just let Carnival come to me!
Or, better said, I’ll find one here in the U.S.
There are a surprising number of West Indian Carnivals held throughout the U.S. each year, with the Labor Day fete in New York and the Miami celebrations ranking among the biggest and best.

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