Editor's note: On Wednesday afternoons, Paul Clarke (The Cocktail Chronicles) stops by with his weekly cocktail column. Today, rum. "While it's hard for many rum drinkers to get too excited about mass-market spiced rums, the beauty of the situation is that spiced rum is so easy to make at home." Captain Henry Morgan. Wikimedia Commons Despite the fact that Henry Morgan was a notorious brigand—with all the vicious unpleasantness that comes along with the job—many rum drinkers find it hard to consider the spirit named after him as much more than a joke. As Eric Felten noted in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal, the popular Captain Morgan’s Original Spiced Rum has typically been associated with imbibing more for quantity than...
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