Ah, rum, with its legendary pirates bellowing for grog, tiki umbrellas peeking up from neon-colored cocktails, tequila-spiked punch at college parties. Rum, universally imbibed and yet often scorned.

BROCKTON—Deep in the coastal terrain of Léogâne, Haiti, is a sugarcane business so close to the ocean you can catch a whiff of the ocean breeze. Four lifelong friends from Brockton started a company ...

American rum is a hugely popular category at the American Distilling Institute’s International Spirits Competition. Below are tasting notes on the competition’s top rums. Each year, the American ...

Though the first distillations of sugarcane certainly took place in the Canary Islands, Spain’s foray into rum began with its colonization of the Caribbean and parts of Central and South America. Rum ...