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The Saoco rum cocktail tradition stems from poverty among the campesinos in Cuba and the type of resourcefulness required to endure it.

As with all of my favorite cocktails, Chairman's Spiced Tea employs a modicum of ingredients, is super-easy to make, and is decidedly delicious.

The Devil's Tail Cocktail is blood-red in appearance, a tad on the sweet side, and fairly deadly in the potency department.

What else could possibly make liming at Ana's On The Beach on Dickenson Bay, Antigua any better..? Answer: Old Fashioned Rum Punch.

The Caribe Ginger Smith is plenty nice as it is, especially if you like your rum cocktail a bit on the refreshingly sweet side.

The simple summer cocktail calls for any Cruzan Flavored Rum, some club soda, ice, and cranberry juice. A lime is useful too.

Barbados might not seem naughty, but we know better. One taste of the Dirty Barbados cocktail featuring Real McCoy 5 Year Old Rum and you'll understand.

As uncommon as it might sound to be enjoying mojitos poolside in Haiti, it's the variety of mojitos available here that makes this party extra special.

I had every intention of behaving myself. Travel with the wife engenders such restraint.