{"id":42335,"date":"2013-11-06T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/rum-journal-tasting-the-caribbeans-strongest-rum"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:57:09","slug":"the-caribbeans-strongest-rum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/11\/the-caribbeans-strongest-rum","title":{"rendered":"The Caribbean\u2019s Strongest Rum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The barman reaches down for the bottle, appearing to look over his shoulder.<\/p>\n

This rum is only available for those who ask, he says. Why?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey call it plane fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

And when you taste it, you\u2019ll soon think that the Grenadine Air Alliance runs exclusively on the stuff.<\/p>\n

The brand, made by St Vincent Distillers, Ltd is called Sunset, and the name is simple: \u201cVery Strong Rum.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the most popular rum in St Vincent and the Grenadines, though it\u2019s usually not consumed straight.\u00a0By almost any account, this is the strongest rum in the Caribbean and, at 84.5 percent alcohol by volume (that\u2019s 169 proof), it\u2019s hard to argue.<\/p>\n

As for the taste? Well, for the uninitiated, it may indeed taste like jet fuel.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the complete article at Caribbean Journal – incuding the recipe for the Caribbean’s strongest Rum Punch.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rum Aficionados & Rum Lovers Take Note:
\nDon’t Miss RumBahamas<\/a> – A Festival of Rum, Food & Culture in Nassau, Bahamas, February 22 & 23, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the most popular rum in St Vincent and the Grenadines, though it\u2019s usually not consumed straight. By almost any account, this is the strongest rum in the Caribbean and, at 84.5 percent alcohol by volume (that\u2019s 169 proof), it\u2019s hard to argue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":42488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[100,1577],"class_list":["post-42335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-caribbean-2","tag-rum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}