SAMMY HAGAR Unveils Sammy's Beach Bar Rum
November 23, 2011, 12 years ago
According to Honolulumagazine.com, SAMMY HAGAR (CHICKENFOOT, ex-VAN HALEN, MONTROSE) was at the Hard Rock Honolulu earlier this week, promoting his new spirit, Sammy's Beach Bar Rum, distilled on Maui by Mark Nigbur of Pau Vodka.
Hagar, who has a home on Maui, had been given a bottle of the vodka and made an appointment to meet Nigbur in the corner of the old Maui Pine cannery where Nigbur distills vodka out of pineapple juice in glass stills.
"I asked, Can you make rum?," recalls Hagar. "He said he'd give it a try." A couple of years later, they have a finished product.The rum's not just a celebrity deal, insists Nigbur. "Sammy has an amazing palate, he knows what he's doing. When he liked the rum, I knew we had something."
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