Talk:Rum

message: There have been recent attempts to list Barbados as a (if not "the") major world-wide producer of rum ( and ).  In 2010, Barbados exported ~US$28.5 million worth of rum.  While Barbados clearly has some well known rum distilleries, when you compare the island's level of production to J. Wray and Nephew Ltd. (€145 million during first 9 months of 2013.) or House of Angostura (TT$275.7 million in after tax profit for 2013) it is clear that Barbados is a relatively small player even before we look into major distilling corporations such as Bacardi or Beam Suntory.  Given that Barbado's annual level of rum exports is roughly 10% that of just one Jamaican distiller, attempts to list the island separate from the rest of the Caribbean (not to mention as the first place on the list) is just not justified by the amount of rum produced on the island.  --Allen3 talk 03:48, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barbados production levels 

message: The role played by the Canaries in the world rum industry. I think this might help. Komitsuki (talk) 13:43, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The role played by the Canaries in the world rum industry 

message: I notice that the introduction to this page states that rum is made in Scotland. If that's true, I'd like this to be sourced, if it is a malicious or mistaken edit, it's time for this to be corrected. Svartalf (talk) 14:43, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Frankly, that list of "Rum is also produced in" countries is a horrible thing to have in an intro paragraph. A short list of two or three is one thing, a list of NINETEEN countries is nigh-unreadable. - BrainiacBlink (talk) 00:02, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish rum? 

message: "The beverage has famous associations with the Royal Navy (where it was mixed with water or beer to make grog) and piracy (where it was consumed as bumbo)."
I call BS. "Piracy" is a name for a type of crime, not a mythical cultural group of men who wear eye patches and silk sashes and go a-swashbuckling o'er the Seven Seas. A pirate is any vessel that steals another vessel or the cargo by force on the high seas. Most people guilty of piracy were indistinguishable from any other vessel, and most of them only turned to piracy in moments of opportunity when nobody was looking. They were just normal merchant ships the rest of the time. The most common type of pirate, today and historically, is small boats that sally out to raid offshore vessels, typically in Africa and Asia. Do they drink rum by choice and wear peg legs? Rum may be associated with a specific TYPE of pirate (i.e. European pirates based in the Caribbean or privateer crews on the Spanish Main), but not "piracy" in general, except as the modern mythological swashbuckling, black-sailed, eye-patched "pirate" out of POTC. So rum is associated with what people PERCEIVE to have been piracy. If many regular pirates drank a lot of rum, it is not surprising as it was an almost universal drink among seafaring men in that era. Since pirates were just merchant crews and man-o-war seamen who were shipping with a captain who didn't mind a little unauthorized privateering, it would be astonishing if the drank anything ELSE. And of course most high-seas "pirating" exploits were actually born from privateers working the Spanish gold ships. In any case, there was no group of people called "pirates" who dressed and acted a certain way, and drank "bumbo" as a group.
64.223.166.179 (talk) 21:41, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Association with piracy" 

message: Not a widely used or readily understood formulation. If we mean South, Central and North America, the usual phrase would be "the Americas." – Sca (talk) 15:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: 'American countries'

message: In Etymology, we might sneak in mention of the old British English phrase "a rum do", meaning a poorly executed or distasteful event or situation. – Sca (talk) 15:22, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: PS: And then there's the song. – Sca (talk) 15:48, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: ''A rum do''

message: It is stated that a bottle of rum was found on Swedish naval ship Wasa that sank in Stockholm in 1628. We now know that this is wrong. It turns out the sprit was made from distilled wine. 
https://spiritsnews.se/vasa-1628-story/ BlueMilkMaking (talk) 08:30, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No rum on Swedish ship Wasa 

message: I have just completed a phase of cleanup for existing references/citations. There is obviously more to do, but alas, I am done for now. —¿philoserf? (talk) 23:54, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference/Citation Cleanup 

message: we have some links to Jamaican rum (Jamaican Rum). Is it clearly identifiable concept? Estopedist1 (talk) 08:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jamaican rum/Rum, adequacy? 

message: This article has an inconsistent mix of "color", "colour", "mechanised", "utilized", "flavor", and "flavour" (MOS:CONSISTENT).  Choosing a national English variety is a bit tricky, since rum is made around the world and has a very international history, so MOS:TIES doesn't provide clear guidance. However, the Caribbean plays a large role in the historical and present-day rum industry, and Jamaica is the world's largest rum producer, so I'll suggest Jamaican English as a starting proposal, but I'm not emotionally invested in any particular outcome.-Ich (talk) 12:59, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional spelling choice 

message: That Rum pictured is Jamaican rum so why is Barbados getting the credit. 71.46.236.251 (talk) 19:00, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appleton rum pictured is not a product of Barbados.This is strictly a Jamaican product so give that country the credit. Thanks