Speaker 1: This is he said a yadiho with Eric Winter and
Speaker 1: Rosalind Fantas.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 3: Hello, another episode that he said a yad ho.
Speaker 4: What do you say?
Speaker 3: He said room.
Speaker 4: Run in Spanish.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, yeah, yeah, I know, I thought, I
Speaker 3: hear at the end, I'm learning Spanish and you're going
Speaker 3: to learn some rum talk today. Listen. I'm very excited.
Speaker 3: We're going to be in Miami in a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks at this giant rum Congress. And uh, one of
Speaker 3: my now friends and now colleagues in the business, Trader
Speaker 3: j is what he called he goes by but Jay
Speaker 3: is the founder of the Florida Rum Society. Their motto
Speaker 3: is rum friends are best friends, and we are fully
Speaker 3: on board with that. Jay is all things rum and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, like he has a profession as well on
Speaker 3: the side, but he is passionate. He's done so much
Speaker 3: to elevate the space. We have his wife, Nina on
Speaker 3: joining as well, so we can really dive into what
Speaker 3: it's like being married to rum obsessed men. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you have somebody to at least have a sounding board with,
Speaker 3: because I know it drives you crazy my obsession with rum.
Speaker 3: Don't you're very, very supportive. It doesn't drive you crazy.
Speaker 4: Doing this because I encourage you.
Speaker 3: True, that's true. It was your idea. It was your idea.
Speaker 3: So let's bring him in. I'm excited to chat with Jay.
Speaker 2: Hello, nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 4: Nice meeting you.
Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on the podcast. This is great.
Speaker 3: We're going to meet you all in person in a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Now I will be there. I have done all of them,
Speaker 2: so yes, it's a good time.
Speaker 3: Really Okay, I'm gonna jump right in really quick, Jay,
Speaker 3: before we talk about your passion for rum. But Nina,
Speaker 3: have you been always passionate about rum as well? Or
Speaker 3: you've been sucked into the vortex by Jay and now
Speaker 3: it's you know, part of your marriage.
Speaker 2: It's yes, it's now part of our marriage.
Speaker 5: I am a very when in Rome type of girl,
Speaker 5: so I enjoy all cocktails, champagne, wine.
Speaker 2: You know, all of it.
Speaker 6: So I have always had a very diverse talent, and
Speaker 6: Jay has definitely brought more rum into our lives than
Speaker 6: we had and I had before.
Speaker 5: But it's been fun, it's been great. We've met a
Speaker 5: lot of wonderful people. We've had a lot of great
Speaker 5: trips that have come out of this wonderful RUMs that
Speaker 5: we get to share with people and have here at home.
Speaker 5: So it's been good, But yeah, it was It was
Speaker 5: not my first spirit.
Speaker 2: And now you know pretty much is.
Speaker 3: Rum friends are the best friends. That's the Florida Society motto.
Speaker 3: Well done, Jay, And I've been filling my wife in
Speaker 3: you know, a bit as well, and she'll she'll jump in.
Speaker 3: But Jay, now I know you have a day job.
Speaker 3: We've talked about this, right, you work in marketing, remember, correct?
Speaker 3: What what caused you to take on a very big
Speaker 3: side job. By the way, the Florid Rum Society is
Speaker 3: not a small task. I mean it's the biggest rum
Speaker 3: society I believe in the country. What what motivated you
Speaker 3: to go that route on the side, because it's not
Speaker 3: just a little thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's for sure one of those things
Speaker 7: that sort of was by accident and then sort of snowballed.
Speaker 7: I like you know, said, always had a rum. Was
Speaker 7: always my first go to and even back in college
Speaker 7: when it was Captain and Cooke.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: Obviously my palette has changed immensely since then, but it
Speaker 7: was always like the default and the I'll try to
Speaker 7: make the story not recredibly long. But the story is
Speaker 7: when we that Nino always said when when we bought
Speaker 7: our next house, if I bought enough rooms, then I
Speaker 7: could have one.
Speaker 1: And I guess I got enough.
Speaker 7: Rooms because as as you guys can see that that
Speaker 7: that have the camera on, I'm in what is now
Speaker 7: our tiki bar, our rum bar. And so I went
Speaker 7: down that sort of that that tiki bar path of
Speaker 7: all right, I want to build a tiki bar in
Speaker 7: our house, and how do I go about doing that?
Speaker 1: Well, there was a there's a book.
Speaker 7: It's uh, it's by Martin Kate, Martin and Rebecca Kate
Speaker 7: called Smuggler's Cove, which is also their bar in San Francisco,
Speaker 7: and it really outlines like how to build your own
Speaker 7: tiki bar. So great, but also there's ninety nine cocktail
Speaker 7: recipes in there, obviously very most of them very rum focused.
Speaker 7: And as I started to try to replicate these cocktails
Speaker 7: in the book, I found that I was lacking on
Speaker 7: the RUMs I needed for these cocktails, even being here
Speaker 7: in Florida. And so I started down this path of well,
Speaker 7: I need to find these RUMs. Where can I find them?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: It turns out.
Speaker 7: I went to a when Nina and I went with
Speaker 7: another couple to Chicago, went to a fabulous tiki bar
Speaker 7: there called Three Dots and a Dash, had a fantastic experience,
Speaker 7: got to like learn more about RUMs, learn more about
Speaker 7: the cocktails, and visited some stores there. Picked up my
Speaker 7: first worthy park, my first hand in, my first of
Speaker 7: a lot of these bottles that I've been looking for,
Speaker 7: and it was driving me a little crazy that we
Speaker 7: could find them in Chicago but not in Florida. And
Speaker 7: so myself and a few buddies were drinking these RUMs
Speaker 7: back in Florida. And of course all ideas are great
Speaker 7: ideas after you've sipped seventy eight RUMs.
Speaker 3: And were society.
Speaker 1: We are the Florida Rus. We are the Florida Rum Society.
Speaker 7: The three of us and uh and so for the
Speaker 7: first few months, right it we it was just three
Speaker 7: of us. But and this was late twenty nineteen and
Speaker 7: something interesting happened. So a few brands right back to
Speaker 7: the marketing. I work in marketing, So I started a
Speaker 7: social media account, right and few brands that have been
Speaker 7: supporting us now for over five years noticed what I
Speaker 7: was trying to do and was like, hey, I will
Speaker 7: host a tasting for your society.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 7: So if you think about what you were doing in
Speaker 7: February of twenty twenty, right, yeah, right, we were like,
Speaker 7: we were weeks away and we had our first Fluorida
Speaker 7: Rum Society tasting. There were about forty of us and
Speaker 7: really just through friends of mine or through social.
Speaker 1: Media, they got word of it.
Speaker 7: We got together, we had a great time, and we
Speaker 7: were like, we're going to do this every month for
Speaker 7: the rest of time. And a month later we were
Speaker 7: all stuck at home, not able to get together for
Speaker 7: a taste. But yeah, but an interesting thing happened. Everyone
Speaker 7: had time on their hands. Yeah, these virtual meetings like
Speaker 7: we're doing right now started popping up, and rum brands
Speaker 7: had marketing budgets that they didn't have a way to
Speaker 7: get in front of their consumers. So we hosted weekly
Speaker 7: virtual happy hours of the Florida Rum Society. Brands would
Speaker 7: send us samples, we'd try them, they'd walk us through it.
Speaker 7: We have a lot of it was a lot of
Speaker 7: rum education, which was great, Like that's what we want.
Speaker 7: And here we are, over five years later, we still
Speaker 7: do the virtual thing and how many members now twenty
Speaker 7: over twenty six hundred.
Speaker 3: Wow, from forty, well from three, from forty to twenty
Speaker 3: six hundred. And we can thank your wife for all
Speaker 3: of it because she gave you a man cave because
Speaker 3: you bought it. Also enough rooms and you built a
Speaker 3: rum man cave and then that started. So it all
Speaker 3: comes back to the wives, which is funny enough. I
Speaker 3: have a non drinking wife who does is never drank
Speaker 3: her a whole life. But she's the one that pushed
Speaker 3: me to go into rum, which is so you know, ironic,
Speaker 3: and it.
Speaker 4: Is weird now that I think about it. And why
Speaker 4: did I do that?
Speaker 3: She says, because NK, you should do something.
Speaker 8: Every supportive because but I grew up with my dad.
Speaker 8: I'm from Puerto Rico. So this is the memory that
Speaker 8: I have of my dad, which is at the terras
Speaker 8: listening to his trios.
Speaker 4: Trios is like three. What is a trio is a
Speaker 4: is a It's.
Speaker 8: Three men with guitars with guitars and they say in
Speaker 8: the music likes we call the trios, right, and they
Speaker 8: sing ballads and stuff, and he's he'll be listening to
Speaker 8: his music with his rum.
Speaker 4: And then I have three brothers.
Speaker 8: I'm the young the youngest one, and the only girl,
Speaker 8: and all my brothers are rum drinkers. So even though
Speaker 8: I never drank and my mom didn't touch alcohol either,
Speaker 8: it was very normal.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: And I have these like very vivid memories of my
Speaker 8: my brothers, all the men in my life, my dad
Speaker 8: and my three brothers, they just love rome. And then
Speaker 8: I met Eric and we're thinking about, you know what,
Speaker 8: just try to come up with something, and then I
Speaker 8: said it has to be rum.
Speaker 3: And even going back to like and Jay, you know
Speaker 3: the story, but you know, like, you know, I got
Speaker 3: into rum because when I met you know, her dad
Speaker 3: for the first time, he was like, all right, let's
Speaker 3: let's talk, let's get to know each other, and look,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have some rum. And I was like, oh god,
Speaker 3: I'm not a rum drinker. This is gonna go south
Speaker 3: really quick. I got to act like I like rum,
Speaker 3: and he just poured it on the rocks.
Speaker 4: Like which one was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I did what, you know, I
Speaker 3: was like, I'll try it, and I ended up really
Speaker 3: liking it. And that's what sort of when you know,
Speaker 3: took me down the path of trying RUMs in different
Speaker 3: places as we travel, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 8: Let me ask you how many how many brands of
Speaker 8: rum do they exist?
Speaker 3: Jay?
Speaker 7: I mean right that is, rum is made on every
Speaker 7: continent except Antarctica.
Speaker 1: So and I bet.
Speaker 7: I'm hundreds hundreds of brands and and a lot that
Speaker 7: never make it to the United States.
Speaker 1: It's interesting right there. There are there are I.
Speaker 7: Think I think over a dozen distilleries in Australia and
Speaker 7: we only get one one really that that we see
Speaker 7: a lot, and that's through independent bottlers.
Speaker 1: So so there's rum and countries.
Speaker 3: That India Isn't India a massive room market?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, India Philippines is a huge rum market and we
Speaker 7: don't see a lot of.
Speaker 2: We been gifted from Nepal.
Speaker 5: Wow yeah, yeah crazy.
Speaker 3: What's been the favorite your your favorite place that you've
Speaker 3: ventured off to because of rum?
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm my my default love is Jamaican rum.
Speaker 7: So I've had the opportunity to both to go to
Speaker 7: Jamaica just the two of us and UH and visit
Speaker 7: some distilleries there. And then we actually took a group
Speaker 7: of fifty members of the Florida Rum Society to Jamaica
Speaker 7: as well and and toward distilleries there. So that's that
Speaker 7: that was an immense experience.
Speaker 1: So that's that's always what I go back to.
Speaker 8: Why do you think the Jamaican the Jamaican rum is
Speaker 8: is so exquisite? Is it something to do with their
Speaker 8: specific cane sugar, like the soil over there?
Speaker 4: Like what is what is the difference?
Speaker 3: Probably right, the kettle still.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a lot a lot of it.
Speaker 7: A lot of it is related to the pot still
Speaker 7: and the way that that Jamaicans make make that been
Speaker 7: making rum since well forever, but at least seventeen sixteen hundreds.
Speaker 7: It's it's a post stile. And what they do each
Speaker 7: distillery is six distilleries in Jamaica, and each one does
Speaker 7: things a little bit different, and they use column stills too,
Speaker 7: at least the bigger ones that you know, like Appleton,
Speaker 7: they have column stills as well. But but they're using
Speaker 7: things like dunder pits and which is reusing some of
Speaker 7: the wash left over from the rum and letting it
Speaker 7: sit in the pit and just then take that and
Speaker 7: add it back to the rump. Is aness that's what's
Speaker 7: giving you that.
Speaker 1: It's the only way to define it, right, And I.
Speaker 3: Love that that's the term that's the rum term Jamaican
Speaker 3: r as a funk as a funkiness, a good funk. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean if you like Jamaican rumba, but.
Speaker 5: That's yeah, like it comes out fruity. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: it definitely, and it makes the difference. I think for
Speaker 5: Jamaican rum.
Speaker 7: It's like overripe banana and like pineapple skin are like
Speaker 7: a lot of the permanent flavor, and then the other
Speaker 7: flavors are in there that you usually get from rum,
Speaker 7: but that that sort of overtakes it.
Speaker 3: It's funny you say that, because even when it comes
Speaker 3: to like Palm Republic, that's one of the big features
Speaker 3: that people go, oh wow, the Jamaican aspect of what
Speaker 3: you put into this blend really separates it. And you know,
Speaker 3: it was it was a great decision. I'm glad we
Speaker 3: went we went down that path. But it's true, it's
Speaker 3: like that funking. Is that subtle difference of why Jamaican
Speaker 3: rum is so distinct really helps out, you know, the blend.
Speaker 1: I think yeah, and it can overpower for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 7: I think that Palm Republic did a great job of
Speaker 7: finding the balance to be approachable because it's not a
Speaker 7: beginning like Jamaican pots still on aged Jamaican potstil rum
Speaker 7: is not a beginner's realm by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 7: But but in small doses it adds. It packs a
Speaker 7: load of flavor, just a little bit.
Speaker 8: What happens if because you get sent so many different brands,
Speaker 8: you know, for you guys to talk about it on showcase?
Speaker 8: So what happens if you get something from whatever and
Speaker 8: you drink it and you're like.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, this is just absolutely awful.
Speaker 8: Like what do you tell those people that send it
Speaker 8: over and they're waiting for feedback?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think, Well, I think two things. One I always try,
Speaker 7: Like in the in the photo Rum Society, one of
Speaker 7: our goal is to be very trans like we want
Speaker 7: RUMs to be transparent, and so I think it's important
Speaker 7: that we're also transparent around what we enjoy or don't enjoy.
Speaker 1: Or provide that feedback. So I try best as I
Speaker 1: can to do that. However, what I will say is
Speaker 1: something that I that.
Speaker 7: I started, that we started sort of as a group,
Speaker 7: is people were sending me RUMs, and of course they
Speaker 7: want me to try and they want the society to
Speaker 7: try them, but it's it's hard to keep up quite frankly, right,
Speaker 7: And so we have a program called our First Taste program,
Speaker 7: which is specifically for like new RUMs or RUMs that
Speaker 7: are merging into the Florida market. And we get together
Speaker 7: right here, like like we're doing now, in a virtual setting,
Speaker 7: and everyone, at least a slice of people forty ish
Speaker 7: will have samples in front of them, and then we
Speaker 7: ask the brand to tell their brand story. Everyone tries it,
Speaker 7: provides feedback, and then we also do a like a
Speaker 7: survey and anonymous survey afterwards, so that they don't just
Speaker 7: have mine and Nina's opinions, right, they have opinions of
Speaker 7: forty of our members who are really engaged.
Speaker 3: Which I did with them. We did that. We did
Speaker 3: one of those virtual lives, oh you did. We sent
Speaker 3: samples to the members, We sat on there and we
Speaker 3: chatted about it.
Speaker 4: What was the feedback?
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, you.
Speaker 1: Tell you, Eric, I think it was very positive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't know what was said behind
Speaker 3: my back, but I mean on camera, No, it seemed
Speaker 3: like everybody was very very complimentary and loved the overproof
Speaker 3: of the aged and also loved the Jamaican funk. In
Speaker 3: the silver and what that did do it and everybody
Speaker 3: came up with great drink recipe ideas. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: a very productive you know.
Speaker 4: What, this is really funny.
Speaker 8: This is off topic, but it's funny because you know
Speaker 8: beth Any Franco, right, so not she has her Vodkan
Speaker 8: and her brand humongous, but she was a chef, you know. Again,
Speaker 8: a lot of brands send her stuff for her to try,
Speaker 8: but she does the tasting of whatever. It could be
Speaker 8: a sauce, it could be a room, whatever, but she
Speaker 8: does it live. So the reaction is very true organic.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. And what is the name of Lisa
Speaker 4: Reno the.
Speaker 3: Husband something Mark, No, No, Hamilton, Hamlin, Hamline.
Speaker 8: Yes, so I'm almost positive. I'm almost positive that it
Speaker 8: was him. He has a brand of some kind of
Speaker 8: sauce like not chilula or a little bit like one.
Speaker 4: Not like something that got hot sauce.
Speaker 8: So she is it's her with her maid or her
Speaker 8: somebody that works for her, right, like a very normal
Speaker 8: like opinion of somebody that knows has no idea about flavor,
Speaker 8: totally neutral. And she puts to the lady puts two sauces,
Speaker 8: a generic one and his sauce.
Speaker 4: So she's trying the first one and the second one and.
Speaker 8: She's like, my god, like reacts heavily say there's no way.
Speaker 8: This is his brand and it was his and it
Speaker 8: was live. So then she felt horrible. So then she
Speaker 8: had to do another whole thing saying, listen, I so
Speaker 8: much apologize, you know, but you know, I'm very transparent,
Speaker 8: and I had no idea that that was going to
Speaker 8: be my reaction. I'm and I am I am, So
Speaker 8: if you guys are going to send me anything, just
Speaker 8: know that I'm going to react how I'm going to.
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh my god, I feel so bad.
Speaker 3: That's the thing with the consumer goods, right, it is
Speaker 3: everybody's opinion. You never know, you can't win everybody over.
Speaker 5: Well, absolutely, and that's hard when it's a one on
Speaker 5: one person. But with the first taste, what's really great
Speaker 5: is that it's a larger group of people. And then
Speaker 5: they do this anonymous survey, you know, and it's different
Speaker 5: than the regular happy hours. Everybody goes into this knowing
Speaker 5: that they're trying it in order to give feedback to
Speaker 5: help these companies, you know, with the information that what
Speaker 5: do consumers want?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So I think that it's a very transparent and very
Speaker 5: easy process to go through, and the companies are able
Speaker 5: to get that real time feedback from people and kind
Speaker 5: of have it written down for posterity and what can
Speaker 5: they do. Is there anything that they would like to
Speaker 5: change or not change to make it more approachable? So
Speaker 5: I think that it's a lot of gat information that
Speaker 5: comes from a wider swath of people, So it's not
Speaker 5: just one persons.
Speaker 8: You know, yeah, were always so subjective because maybe she
Speaker 8: didn't like it, But there's be maybe there's another palette
Speaker 8: that they actually respond really well to it.
Speaker 4: You know, so you absolutely.
Speaker 3: So as you built this Jay, well, Nina, I'm assuming
Speaker 3: you guys built this sort of together. When Jay said
Speaker 3: I want to start the society, you were like, are
Speaker 3: you crazy? Or were you going, Okay, let's see how
Speaker 3: we can do this.
Speaker 2: It's like, all right, let's see how it goes.
Speaker 5: I mean, everything seems great in a friends setting when
Speaker 5: you're sitting in your bar and you're enjoying your spoils
Speaker 5: that you brought home from your latest trip.
Speaker 2: So it seemed like a fun idea.
Speaker 5: I mean, little did we know that it would turn
Speaker 5: into another job. Absolutely, it is a second really full
Speaker 5: time job for him. But we've got great people that
Speaker 5: you know, help out and provide you know, support and
Speaker 5: things like that. But yeah, I don't know, we did
Speaker 5: not expect it. We're very happy with it. I think
Speaker 5: that it's a great group of people, like I've said before,
Speaker 5: and it's just growing, right. I mean, we just want
Speaker 5: to help people have the best cocktails, the best time,
Speaker 5: meet great people, learn right. I mean, there is a
Speaker 5: huge educational component to the Florida Rum Society, and I
Speaker 5: think the more you know, the more you can appreciate things.
Speaker 2: And so, you know, we'll see where it goes from here.
Speaker 2: But so far, so.
Speaker 7: Good, and I think I think it's important to call
Speaker 7: out that obviously, I like, I don't do this in
Speaker 7: a silo.
Speaker 1: You know, is a huge help.
Speaker 7: And I have a great group of Florida Rum Society Ambassadors.
Speaker 7: There's fifty of family that that also helps. So it's
Speaker 7: it's right. It really is a true society and the
Speaker 7: group that all that all work together to make it
Speaker 7: to make it a great community.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd say entrepreneurship, starting some and building something. If
Speaker 3: you're in the marriage, any relationship, you need that support
Speaker 3: of your partner, you know, I have it thankfully. It's
Speaker 3: funny like this was her idea coming to me, and
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know if I can do this,
Speaker 3: and she's like, yeah, yeah, you can do it. And
Speaker 3: she's like pushing me, pushing me, giving me the confidence
Speaker 3: to do it and start seeking it out. And then
Speaker 3: once I'm in it, she's like, oh wow, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of work. This is much more. You had a handsful.
Speaker 3: You're going again, I get it. What do you have
Speaker 3: to do? She's like, oh my god. So you know,
Speaker 3: she didn't even anticipate. I didn't at the level that
Speaker 3: you know. Once it was just like a great idea,
Speaker 3: and then once you're in it, she's like, Okay, can
Speaker 3: you stop like you're up all night.
Speaker 8: Because what's happening is because you also, like, like you
Speaker 8: also have a job. Right, So he is shooting so
Speaker 8: many many hours and it has become all consuming, from
Speaker 8: shooting the rookie to dealing with all the business part
Speaker 8: of Palm Republic. And it's been a treat to watch
Speaker 8: because I've seen Eric grow as a businessman, like right
Speaker 8: in front of my eyes. You know, the amount of
Speaker 8: phone calls and conference calls and traveling and all the
Speaker 8: stuff that he's learning about RUM and about building a business.
Speaker 8: It's been incredible to watch, but sometimes you just go, dude,
Speaker 8: can you just get off the phone for one second,
Speaker 8: because it's just way too much and it's wrong.
Speaker 2: It's wrong, right, Like your second job is rum.
Speaker 5: Can we you know acknowledge that it's fantastic?
Speaker 2: However you're not cure cancer?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly, but it's great.
Speaker 2: But you know you're telling your kids, Oh, Dad, it's
Speaker 2: not going to be here tonight. He has to go
Speaker 2: to another rum.
Speaker 3: Trying to worry, like, how do I not make my
Speaker 3: kids alcoholics? I'm like, no, no, it's not. Everything's not
Speaker 3: about Rum. Like there, Dylan's always like, Dad, is this
Speaker 3: about Rum? And I'm like, don't worry about rum, Dylan,
Speaker 3: you're seven. He's good for don't think about this morning.
Speaker 4: He was like so he we're talking in the kitchen
Speaker 4: and he goes, you leave again, Where are you going now?
Speaker 8: He said, no, we have to go to Miami for
Speaker 8: just a couple of days for what for primary public?
Speaker 4: And he goes, I'm going and we're like, no, you're not.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: I get it. Now. I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: a good thing or bad thing and baby, but.
Speaker 7: Now the kids will will We'll scan, We'll scan bars
Speaker 7: at restaurants we go to and be like bad, there's
Speaker 7: no good RUMs.
Speaker 1: Therefore, maybe they're learning. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's going to be the most educated college, my god, my.
Speaker 2: Bar on campus.
Speaker 5: They will throw the best parties with the best cocktail
Speaker 5: with whether or.
Speaker 2: Not we enjoy that at the time, they're going to
Speaker 2: be well educated.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to freak out.
Speaker 7: Something fun I've started is is if I see it,
Speaker 7: if I find a rum that was distilled in the
Speaker 7: year that they were born, I grab a bottle for
Speaker 7: them and it's in the It's in the back closet,
Speaker 7: and this will be there. This will be the twenty
Speaker 7: first birthday friend, some some bottles that were distilled in
Speaker 7: there in their birth years.
Speaker 8: That's very You know, Sabella, our daughter was named after
Speaker 8: a wine. We went to Napa or it was your
Speaker 8: birthday and I don't drink. So we go into all
Speaker 8: these different vineyards and there's one specifically, it was a
Speaker 8: called Hazel Anzel Hanzel and in so Noma and Eric
Speaker 8: is like, you know what she doesn't drink, and I said,
Speaker 8: you know what, I can try like a dessert wine.
Speaker 8: I was aiming for that because I said, give me
Speaker 8: something really really really sweet that I feel like I'm
Speaker 8: drinking candy so I don't feel like it's alcohol. And
Speaker 8: we don't have this, but we don't have that, but
Speaker 8: we have this wine. And they bring this bottle that
Speaker 8: is called Sabella, and I was like, Sabella, I'm God,
Speaker 8: that's beautiful. And then then we learned that the owner
Speaker 8: of the place has twins, Sebastian and Isabella, so he
Speaker 8: joined both names and name it Sabella. So it was
Speaker 8: dedicated to the kids. And I was like, you know what,
Speaker 8: if we ever have kids, and if we ever have
Speaker 8: a daughter, I love that Sabella. And we have the
Speaker 8: bottle from twenty twelve when she was born, and we
Speaker 8: have it with us.
Speaker 4: We have two of them.
Speaker 2: I think that's perfect.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's very nice.
Speaker 3: I love that. Yeah, we're building that storage up of
Speaker 3: the birth years of the kids.
Speaker 8: This is a weird question, guys, and and my apologies
Speaker 8: Eric if there is no answer, But is there any
Speaker 8: health component at all to rum? Does it have any
Speaker 8: kind of something that people go it's good for or
Speaker 8: not all?
Speaker 3: Is it all like any alcohol? No alcohol wine.
Speaker 1: That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 7: You're going towards the some people to some doctors recommend them.
Speaker 3: It's only red wine.
Speaker 7: One glass of red wine a day is good for
Speaker 7: your heart.
Speaker 3: Not a bottle of red wine like a lot of
Speaker 3: our friends drink. It's one glass and it's supposed to
Speaker 3: be because I think the tannins or something in the
Speaker 3: grapes that could be good for your heart. And I
Speaker 3: also sad another study come out there say then I
Speaker 3: don't think that's act totally true, but I do know,
Speaker 3: like if it's a clear alcohol, it can be better
Speaker 3: for you than a brown alcohol based on the sugars,
Speaker 3: like if you some people have different tolerance.
Speaker 8: The wait is roum the alcohol that you know, singers,
Speaker 8: professional singers, if they have a little bit of a
Speaker 8: throat over the vocal cords are inflamed, they tell you
Speaker 8: before you go on stage, just have a little bit
Speaker 8: and they have a shot of something.
Speaker 4: Isn't what they do to kind of like warm all
Speaker 4: the vocal cords.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that, but I can't say we can.
Speaker 8: Start that all professional singers.
Speaker 7: We're going to start a barbershop quartet of Republic.
Speaker 3: But I know we're going to do a quiz before
Speaker 3: the end before we end here. But before we do that,
Speaker 3: let's talk really quick about the Rum Congress coming up, Jay,
Speaker 3: because you're going to be the moderator, correct on this panel?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Well so, yeah, I'm I'm both I'm both the host
Speaker 7: of the Friday seminar day of Miami Rum Congress and
Speaker 7: then I'm fortunate enough to be moderating a panel with
Speaker 7: with Eric on it with also three other three other yeah,
Speaker 7: three other rum ambassadors. So so yeah, and just a
Speaker 7: little backstory on the Miami Rum Congress.
Speaker 1: It's been going on for six ish, seven ish years.
Speaker 7: And it's a it's a gathering. It's the largest, i
Speaker 7: will say, like rum conference type of thing right and
Speaker 7: in the United States, and it's a.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a three day event down in Miami.
Speaker 7: A ton of brands come, they bring to share their products,
Speaker 7: to share their stories. A lot of them will bring
Speaker 7: like sneak peaks of upcoming things. So day one, which
Speaker 7: is Friday, the thirty.
Speaker 1: First, is is all the seminar days. So it's a.
Speaker 7: Very like rum education and heavy learn about different things,
Speaker 7: and so Eric is on the I wrote it down
Speaker 7: to make sure I said it right. Give Rum a shot,
Speaker 7: tales from brand ambassadors in the trenches. So Eric will
Speaker 7: be will be at my mercy on that and I
Speaker 7: can pepper him with easy with questions.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be on there with a lot of RUM
Speaker 3: experts and I'm going to be the one that's swimming
Speaker 3: trying to keep up. But it'll be it'll be interesting,
Speaker 3: it'll be interesting. I'm in good hands.
Speaker 7: And then Saturday is the Grand Tasting. So it's set
Speaker 7: up like if you think about a career fair or
Speaker 7: like right, there's every every brand has a booth and
Speaker 7: you can come and experience Palm Republic will have We'll
Speaker 7: have a big presence there and you can come experience
Speaker 7: their their products, ask questions, learn about it, find things
Speaker 7: you love, maybe find things to arouseland's point you don't.
Speaker 1: Love as much, but now you know.
Speaker 7: And then we cap we cap it all off ironically
Speaker 7: with a we're doing the final event.
Speaker 1: So the f A.
Speaker 7: Forum Sundy, because it's this events in Florida has always
Speaker 7: been involved and and we usually plan the I'll call
Speaker 7: them the after hours events.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: And then one on Saturday after the grand tasting. We're
Speaker 7: partnering up with Palm Republic, and I know both you
Speaker 7: are going to be there and at Soda Sopra down
Speaker 7: in Miami Beach and we're going to have a big
Speaker 7: party there. So so very much looking forward to that
Speaker 7: Saturday night. Of course, the cap off, the whole, the whole,
Speaker 7: the whole weekend.
Speaker 3: It's going to be fun.
Speaker 4: It's going to be fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta get ready. You're not gonna drink, but
Speaker 3: you're gonna come out. Will be the only sober one
Speaker 3: over the full gown.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 7: Oh man, don't don't tell Nita that she needs a gown.
Speaker 4: Let's go, let's go all out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So what's this rum quiz? You don't you have it? No,
Speaker 3: Christy Crystal, Yes quiz that she sent sure to ask
Speaker 3: us questions.
Speaker 4: Yes, for me to compete with Jess right here.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna probably lose a buzzing in. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess she's Gonnada's questions and answer and we're going
Speaker 3: to see it's right here. How well we do?
Speaker 4: Oh my god?
Speaker 8: Okay, so two of you, so the two of you
Speaker 8: love RUMs so much. I'm going to give you a
Speaker 8: quiz on common questions about rum and we will see
Speaker 8: who answers faster. Okay, Nina, help me keep them honest
Speaker 8: over here, So right here you go and the sources
Speaker 8: from Room romography dot com.
Speaker 4: Number one, what is the French word for rum?
Speaker 1: It's rum with an age.
Speaker 4: No, we don't know, okay, So zero zero?
Speaker 1: Are are you looking for? Agricole? Is that the word
Speaker 1: you're looking at?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 4: I don't know the answer? Yeah, actually it's right here.
Speaker 4: Answers right here. It's called room.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, yes, yes, so you said the question, yes, yes,
Speaker 8: one zero okay.
Speaker 3: Number two.
Speaker 4: What is the world's oldest rum distillery.
Speaker 3: The actual distiller?
Speaker 7: Yes, I believe that it's fairly agreed upon that Mount
Speaker 7: Gay is the oldest continually running distillery.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 8: Two points in Barbadoes, founded in seventeen oh three, the
Speaker 8: oldest survive indeed, okay. Number three, which country makes the
Speaker 8: most rum?
Speaker 4: You talked about it?
Speaker 3: Jamaica?
Speaker 8: No, you're talking.
Speaker 3: Philippines, India, India.
Speaker 8: I did not know the answer, okay, So the three no,
Speaker 8: two to one. The next one, what is the most
Speaker 8: expensive rum in the world?
Speaker 7: Well, so, Jared, Okay, there's a I think I don't
Speaker 7: know if this is it, but there's a seventeen year
Speaker 7: old J Ray and Nephew bottle that was sold at
Speaker 7: auction for thirty forty thousand dollars. It's the original Ma
Speaker 7: Tai rum. I don't know if that's the right answer,
Speaker 7: but I know that defensive.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 8: So Dictator Colombian Rum MC Golden Cities series sold for
Speaker 8: one point five million dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a lot more.
Speaker 1: It's Dictador. Is that the one Dictador.
Speaker 8: Dictator Dictador Colombian Room, Mcity Golden You ever had that?
Speaker 1: I've had. I've not had that one. I've had Dictador rum.
Speaker 7: They do some they do some special releases and they
Speaker 7: do I think some like artist bottles type thing.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if it was one of those.
Speaker 8: Is this one is the M City Golden Cities series?
Speaker 8: So these one is a series? Is a one point
Speaker 8: five You know, Puerto Rico has a rum that is
Speaker 8: have you heard of rome Ron Superior rom Superior.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, in Puerto.
Speaker 8: Rico that one goes for like five hundred dollars a
Speaker 8: bottle and it's supposed to be like super premium.
Speaker 3: We have a couple of bottles. I haven't tried yet.
Speaker 4: And I know this because I just directed a morn.
Speaker 3: I should probably bring it to Florida, should you know?
Speaker 4: I direct?
Speaker 8: I directed a movie and I have a scene that
Speaker 8: the girls are doing like a like a tasting, and
Speaker 8: they sponsored. They came in as sponsors, and they told
Speaker 8: me is age for eighteen years is in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4: The owner.
Speaker 3: We gave us each a bottle of our our birth years.
Speaker 4: Of a birth year is correct because it was, Yes, But.
Speaker 3: I'm nervous to open it now. I don't want to know.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 4: If you don't know it's true, it's true, you should
Speaker 4: open it.
Speaker 3: Right, you're right?
Speaker 4: Okay. The next one is, oh, I know they answer
Speaker 4: to this.
Speaker 3: We're working at the answer one.
Speaker 4: No, I know, I know without looking.
Speaker 3: So Puerto Rico.
Speaker 8: No, Yes, I said, what country at a home? What
Speaker 8: country is home to the pina colada roam cocktail?
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico Rico?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm going to be more specific where exactly
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 3: I know this answer the Hilton Right.
Speaker 4: You're right, you're right.
Speaker 3: Okay, So that's the myth.
Speaker 4: What is the term for diluting down the alcohol?
Speaker 3: What you watering down.
Speaker 1: No, proofing down.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, proofing down. What does a mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But he knows that it's an easy one.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 3: He's just giving me a point because I'm so far behind, Like,
Speaker 3: let me just be quiet on this one, and.
Speaker 4: Letic so name the room named after a Rolling Stones song.
Speaker 1: It's a hurricane. What?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's something hurricane.
Speaker 1: Something something fire fire?
Speaker 7: Yes you it's a.
Speaker 1: Line from Jumping Jack Flash. Why can't I remember it?
Speaker 3: Cross fire.
Speaker 4: Ross, there's my hurricane.
Speaker 7: The guy's going to be pissed because he he I
Speaker 7: sat with him and tried tried the rum one of
Speaker 7: the brand wraps.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, what is the most famous ticky rum cocktail?
Speaker 3: My tie?
Speaker 1: My tie? Correct?
Speaker 4: And the last one? Where where is the birthplace of rum?
Speaker 3: Barbadoes? Yay? M just going off memory?
Speaker 4: Who I lost count?
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. Jay knew all the answers. He just
Speaker 3: chose to be slow on some of them to let
Speaker 3: me have a fighting chick.
Speaker 7: I didn't know that I did not know the most
Speaker 7: expensive rum in the world.
Speaker 3: Neither did I J So it didn't help me that
Speaker 3: you didn't know that.
Speaker 8: Now you know that it comes from Colombia, you need
Speaker 8: to get a bottle of that one. Yeah, sure, you
Speaker 8: have one point five million dollars on one bottle.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Well listen, guys, thank you so much
Speaker 3: for for being on with us. This was a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. Can't wait to meet you both in person
Speaker 3: coming up next, not this weekend, but the weekend after
Speaker 3: on the first and second, I think is what it.
Speaker 7: Is, right, thirty first first first.
Speaker 3: Thirty first in the first going into January February. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of fun. We will be at
Speaker 3: the Miami Convention Center for the congress. And what's the
Speaker 3: location to get in the bar that we're going to
Speaker 3: be celebrating with Florida.
Speaker 7: So sora which is it means under over in Italian.
Speaker 7: So they have like a rooftop terrace over top of
Speaker 7: the restaurant. We're going to be up on the rooftop,
Speaker 7: so pray for pray for nice weather.
Speaker 3: That's where the party is going to be at the
Speaker 3: party that we're doing with with Florida Rum Society.
Speaker 4: Is this private? Is this a private event?
Speaker 1: So good question.
Speaker 7: See that's a good question. It is not a private event. However,
Speaker 7: you do up to RSVP. I know that Palm Republic
Speaker 7: just posted on Instagram about it. And if you go
Speaker 7: to Florida Rumsociety dot com, there's a link right there
Speaker 7: where you can.
Speaker 4: Rsp How many people do you think? And I can
Speaker 4: get that if.
Speaker 1: You want to know. Right now we're up to like
Speaker 1: one hundred. But I think there's room for like more.
Speaker 4: There's room for more. Okay, but nice, Invite your friends.
Speaker 7: If you have friends, when they want to come, they
Speaker 7: can come to.
Speaker 4: Oh for.
Speaker 3: You have a lot of Miami fans.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 3: We'll have to send send me over the link Jay
Speaker 3: of what that we can put on social.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll send to you. I'll send you one.
Speaker 3: Get off, sweet Nina, Jay, thank you so much. It
Speaker 3: was a lot of fan.
Speaker 1: Much great, very much.
Speaker 7: Look forward to hanging out in a few weeks and
Speaker 7: uh and and sharing some great rum rum friends than you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. By thanks bye, thank you bye
Speaker 3: bye again. Big thank you to Jay and Nina for
Speaker 3: being on with us. It's gonna be so much fun
Speaker 3: in Miami. We can't wait to anybody who's down there,
Speaker 3: come hang out, go to the Rum Congress.
Speaker 4: But is there a cost to go to the party?
Speaker 3: Well, the party, I don't think the party or the
Speaker 3: Rum Congress. You have to just got to get tickets.
Speaker 3: You have to get a ticket to get tickets, and
Speaker 3: then also listen. I'll talk about this now. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about it more even later. But I'm going to be
Speaker 3: there as well, meet and greet for Total Wines again.
Speaker 3: We're going to be there on January thirty first, eleven
Speaker 3: to one Total Wine Kendle. And then on February first,
Speaker 3: another meet and greet Total Wines eleven to one at
Speaker 3: the Total Wine Miami Beach where I went to before.
Speaker 3: So gonna be great. Please come out. We'd love to
Speaker 3: sign a bottle, take some pictures. Hang It's going to
Speaker 3: be an action packed Miami weekend.
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