Peanut Punch and Sea Moss Punch History
Many people familiar with Caribbean cocktails often assume that “punch” as a libation refers exclusively to a modern take on the historic citrus based punches made by the plantocracy and served from...
Coquito and Kremas: Christmas Coconut Punches
All across the Caribbean, creamy alcoholic beverages are an important part of Christmas celebrations. The most widespread of these is Ponche Creme, a drink made with rum, eggs, and condensed milk that is...
Christmas in the Southern Caribbean Means Ponche Creme
There are certain elements of Trinbagonian culture that are associated exclusively with the Holiday season and no other time of year. Parang, a style of Spanish folk music, only begins to...
How Flip Landed in the Caribbean as Stout Punch
Stout Punch is a popular beverage in the West Indies that is ordered at bars, blended at home, or batched as a bottled cocktail and taken to the beach. It...
Visiting the Foursquare Rum Distillery & Heritage Park
Barbados is on the bucket list for rums lovers across the world. It’s the island where rum was invented centuries ago, home to the oldest commercial rum distillery, and the...
The Mount Gay Rum Tour & Cocktail Experience
If sipping tropical cocktails on a white sand beach is your idea of the perfect Caribbean vacation, then Barbados might be your ideal Caribbean destination. Most of the island’s coastline...
Rum & Heritage at Saint Nicholas Abbey, Barbados
Barbados is considered to be the birthplace of rum, since the earliest records of this sugarcane spirit are associated with this island. Naturally, several of the top attractions in Barbados...