Rum was served aboard warships, rationed to civilization-changing explorers and sustained the Founding Fathers as they plotted revolution. It also inspired one of the world’s greatest adventurers, 

It was consumed by men who understood you only get one shot at life. Hemingway was this kind of man. He lived his life in a state of perpetual motion, traversing the globe collecting tales each more epic than the last - and rum bore witness to it all.