Henry’s Bar up at the Nayara Tented Camp is a very cool and chill place to hang out any time of day. The best part about it, though, was the special Rum Tasting that we booked there. Our bartender and teacher, Joseph, was amazing. He was super nice, chatty, and very knowledgable and passionate about rums, and spirits in general. He was definitely one of our favorite staff members the whole week.

The spread of different rums was intimidating, but they were all very delicious in their own way. Joseph taught us how to taste the rum, and also offered up chocolates and other garnishes to accentuate the flavors of the rums.

Rum isn’t really a super popular spirit right now, but it definitely should be, with all of the small distilleries making rum in different ways. We really learned to appreciate this spirit, and afterwards, Joseph made us some more traditional cocktails with some of the rums that we tasted. Below is a photo of a traditional MaiTai – no orange juice! It was one of my favorite drinks that I had the entire week.

I love learning about local foods and spirits, and this rum tasting is very reasonably priced, and you get a ton of knowledge from your 1.5-2 hours of tasting up at Henry’s Bar! I highly recommend it!