El Colon - excellent rum with many good edges - by Rum Blogger Jan Ohrt Ron Colon

Post by Jan Ohrt
El Salvador is a small country in Central America, not much bigger than Jutland, with breathtaking scenery, a long sweeping coastline to the Pacific Ocean and a whole lot of sweet and friendly people. This is despite the fact that both they and the country have been plagued by a 12-year civil war and then a very high rate of gang crime, terror, violence and murder. However, these unflattering statistics are rapidly improving, perhaps due to massive new funding for the police that has resulted in thousands of arrests, many of them unfortunately somewhat random and on flimsy grounds. The result, however, is that many countries' foreign services have relaxed their warnings and believe that tourists can now travel reasonably safely. Of course, you still shouldn't flash your smartphone and gold watch too much when taking an evening stroll in some of the capital's more inflamed neighborhoods, but the same applies to certain places in Copenhagen and the surrounding area.

The country excels in two more areas, growing both coffee and sugar cane, which many believe to be world-class. Which naturally means that they also make rum. Salvadorans themselves are most proud of brands like Cihuatan and understandably so, they make excellent rum. But because the raw materials are so abundant and of such high quality, several new and quite funky producers are popping up around the country and one of the newest is called Ron Colon, named after the country's former currency, which was then named after the man who discovered America, Cristobal Colon. Those of us who don't speak Spanish call him Christopher Columbus.