Why 2018 will be a rum year (possibly)

UK sales look to top £1bn in a year, following the boutique path to riches cut by gin. Unlike ‘mother’s ruin’, however, rum is fiddly and expensive to makeRevellers in need of festive spirit are reaching for rum in record numbers, new figures show, suggesting the pirate’s tipple of choice is primed to mimic the ongoing resurgence of gin.There is more than one way to make rum but the process always starts with sugar cane. Typically, the cane is crushed in a mill, pro