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Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #59.  On this podcast, Drums and Rums alumn Jame' from Ready Set Rum joins me as co-host as we chat with the Rum Ambassador, Ian Burrell. Ian's been around rum as part of his family and culture from starting out as a bartender in London to becoming an ambassador for the rum industry. He talks about starting up the African-Caribbean blended rum, Equiano, with a collaboration with Foursquare and Gray's Distillery.

Also, he drops some knowledge about what space tastes like.
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The opening track is  Once Upon a Bottle of Rum by Brad Brock
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Here are a few things you will hear in this episode of the Drums and Rums podcast.

•  What type of rum does he recall being around while growing up?
• Partnering up with Richard Seale at Foursquare
• The history behind the name of the company.
• Equiano's foundation supporting Anti-Slavery International 
• After taking a break from college and started bartending, did you have an idea of where this all would end up or be just let’s give it a go?
• The return of the rum festivals and the upcoming one in Miami in February 2022.
• We ask about his music career back in the '90s with a successful hit song that was in movies and tv ads. 
• The story on how he set up a Rum Shack in Antarctica? 
  
  

In four sips or less:

• Neat or on the rocks?
• Prince or Michael Jackson
• As a bartender what’s your most important tool
• Which bar would you bartend at, the Cantina from Star Wars or Cheers?

Visit Ian's links:

• https://equianorum.com
• https://equianorum.com/foundation/
• https://www.instagram.com/equianorum/
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