J.M RHUMBLE – 2017 Highlights

By Thursday, October 5, 2017

On September 20th Rhum J.M paid tribute to the Garden State’s hardworking and creative bartenders while Cellar 335 celebrated its one year anniversary, with the first ever J.M RHUMBLE. New Jersey’s emerging cocktail scene has been often overshadowed by their neighbor across the river. However, this past week SPIRIBAM continued to offer bartenders a creative platform ...

Raising Cane

By Friday, June 7, 2013

By Amanda Schuster It begins with a stalk of sugarcane. Cane, the foundation of all rum production, has ancient roots in Asia’s Indus Valley and honorable mentions in early history. Even Alexander the Great marveled at the “grass that gives honey without bees.” In the 8th century, sugar cane migrated west into Spain via the Moors and ...

Bourbon be damned, it’s time to return to rum

By Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Outside the Grocery, the late afternoon sun shone down from a cloudless sky, but inside the Cannon Street restaurant a storm was brewing. Fortunately, it was contained within a single short-stemmed glass, the bottom half holding a white layer of ginger beer so thick and cloudy that it almost looked like cream. Above it hung a ...

Clément’s New England Connection

By Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Ben Jones knows a good rum when he drinks it. No wonder: his mother’s family founded Rhum Clément on the island of Martinique in 1887. “Growing up we always had a few bottles of Rhum Clément in the liquor cabinet,” Jones says. “My mother would serve guests Créole Shrubb for dessert, over ice cream, with ...