The Rum Guide

Learn more about Rum and check out our favourite Rum’s to sip or mix in cocktails.

Made by distilling fermented molasses, the byproduct of refining sugar. Some areas produce ‘Cuban style’ rums which are distilled in a ‘column’ still to a very high strength before water is added. This makes these styles of rum lighter and drier. Other production areas use ‘pot’ stills and the spirit is not distilled to such a high strength, creating a heavier style of rum. There are also hybrid styles that incorporate a mixture of both pot and column still distillates.

Any of these styles can be bottled white (unaged) as well as rested and aged in barrels. This smooths, rounds and adds more body to the rum. There are also Agricole style rums, distilled straight from pressed sugar cane ‘juice’ instead of molasses. Delivering a ‘funky’ vegetal style of rum.