Sweet Jamaica a Pot Still and Three Distilleries Dutch
N. 27 | JULY 2020 SUPPLEMENT OF BARTALES LIQUID STORY / FAMILY JEWELS A POT STILL BAR STORY / PEGU AND THREE DISTILLERIES COLONIAL FLAVOUR HOT SPIRIT / TRELAWNY RUM HOT SPIRIT / INDIAN WHISKY SWEET JAMAICA MIXTURE FROM OVER THE SEAS BAR TOUR / DRINKING EUROPE FOCUS ON / THE TEARS TOP TEN NORTH WIND DUTCH COURAGE BAR EDITORIAL by Melania Guida TALES A TEAM EFFORT tarting 24 June, and seven years after the release of the first issue of Bar- Tales, the Chinese edition of our magazine is now online. This was a great challenge – an attempt at considering what until a few months ago was unthinkable. Another “younger brother”, following the Spanish edition of Sour “Best of Bartales”. With hindsight, and fingers crossed, we put our experience to good use while riding the long wave of this crisis. This is the real meaning of hard times: attempting to turn hardship to your advantage, turning a disadvantage into an opportunity and upping the ante. It’s a wager, of course, perhaps even a gamble and at such an uncertain time. But it’s in these game-changing moments, we told ourselves, and during the hardest, that we have to pull out all the stops. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”, in the words of that genius, John Belushi. It’s a statement that’s made history. We’ve borrowed it too – don’t hold it against us, John – for the launch of our next adventure: the Mandarin edition. It’s not use denying that there’s a touch of tension and some light-headedness.
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