New Rum Site

[TheRumelier]

I've just started this site about rum and related things. Please be patient because it interupts my rum drinking time!!:mad:
Bob Davies

http://www.therumelier.com

[KINGSTON]

I like it. I will be stoping by often. How is living in the Turks?

[RobertBurr]

Bob,

Congratulations on the web site. It's a great start and a good resource for rum enthusiasts.

Regarding Cave Rum in Turks And Caicos, is that made by Appleton?

The story about your shelves falling down i the middle of the night and losing all your oldest and most valuable rums made me cry (almost).

[Tiare]

Nice web page!

[Jerry]

Exellent site! Impressive collection! (I'm jealous!)

[Paulipbartender]

I've just started this site about rum and related things. Please be patient because it interupts my rum drinking time!!:mad:
Bob Davies

http://www.therumelier.com

Nice to meet you Bob and to see your impressive collection. From the pics on your site, it looks like you miss the valleys back home. I bet you pine for Wales and the British winter.......

[Dood]

Great site! Adding a link to it now.

[Lew Barrett]

Sorry to read of the 2006 incident, here displayed (hopefully with your permission...I will delete it if you are displeased) so my note will have some reference.

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff76/LewBarrett/rums.jpg
The buckling shelves should have been the give-away to the disaster to come. Make sure the next shelves are set in rabbets and are twice as strong as you think will be required.

However early one Sunday morning The Rumelier was awoken by a very loud crashing sound. He jumped out of bed and ran into the living room only to find most of his prized rums had fallen down and broken on the hard tile floor after the shelves had collapsed.
The rum was flowing down into one corner of the room leaving an irrisistable aroma behind it. Broken pieces of glass covered the tile floor. Unfortunately the cheaper least collectable bottles of rum had been on the lower shelves, while all the rare desirable ones had been arranged high up on the shelves for visibility. These were the ones not to survive the fall.

Above pinched from Rumelier's site.

Thanks for the link; a great point of interest! Sorry for your debacle! Lost collections are rarely retrievable.

[The Rum Ambassador]

Great job Bob. It's so refreshing to see the love and passion of another rum enthusiast surface for the whole world to see and understand why we (All of the Ministry of Rummers) do what we do, not for money but love. It's our belief. As I always say...Rum is the true religion.!!!

[TheRumelier]

Its fine most of the time. Living on a small island has it's drawbacks, but the sun does shine about 350 days a year!! It's great if you like the beach and watersports such as fishing, diving, snorkelling, etc. Lots of rums to chose from helps though.

[TheRumelier]

I take your point, but it wasn't actually the shelves that collapsed, but the base. The weight of the bottles caused too much pressure on the base. I had another mini-disasater recently when a wild cat came in the house and decided to start climbing on the shelves. Fortunately "Milkshake" as my kids call her only broke a bottle of Wray & Nephew Overproof, which is easily replacable.

[Count Silvio]

What wood were the shelves made of?

[Tiare]

Fortunately "Milkshake" as my kids call her only broke a bottle of Wray & Nephew Overproof, which is easily replacable.

You were lucky..and so was i..last night i woke up by a weird sound..

I then saw my cat high up just under the roof, on top of my orchid case, ready to take a big jump right over to all my rum bottles on the top shelf..:eek:

I just in time managed to stop her..

[TheRumelier]

They are made of plywood even though this was against my instructions!! This guy will not be making my bar when I build my new house!!

[Count Silvio]

Plywood is no good.