Seminars and Special Guests
ALL GUESTS ARE WELCOMED
SCHEDULE
Throughout the evening, Garrett Peck will be on hand to sign special copies of his newest release, ‘The Prohibition Hangover…Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet’
- 7PM -
Rums Of Puerto Rico
- 7:45PM -
History of Rum
Author & Writer Ian Williams
Ian Williams
Author/Correspondent
Ian Williams has been a judge at the Polished Palate Annual Rum Competition for three years. Ian authored ‘ Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776’. This often rollicking page-turner, quite an achievement for a non-fiction ‘thriller’, traces the root of all rums (rhums, cachacas, aguardientes) from the first planting of sugar cane. Ian Williams describes his subject as the "Global Spirit with its warm beating heart in the Caribbean." Williams traces the uniquely Caribbean origins of rum, "the common factor for the whole region, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Dutch or Papiamento-speaking."
- 8:30PM -
