Review: Sassy Girl Rum Cream
Sassy Girl Rum Cream is produced by the Dehner Distillery in Clive Iowa for Hustle 247 Inc. It is made with real dairy cream, rum, and natural flavors. Sassy Girl Rum Cream is part of a full line of wine, beer, and spirits created with a roaring 20’s prohibition theme, sold by Alphonse Capone Enterprises. They are probably best known for their Tommy Gun Vodka that comes in a tommy gun shaped bottle. Read more 
Review: Kilo Kai Spiced Rum
Kilo Kai Spiced Rum was introduced in 2007. The rum base is made in Curacao. Curacao is part of the ABC Islands of the Netherlands Antilles. That group includes the Islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao. Angelo Leanez a third generation Master Distiller, or a member of his family, is involved in every step of the blending process. Kilo Kai is crafted in small batches, about 1000 liters. One year old and three year old rum is blended together before the rum is shipped to the US where it is flavored, spiced, and bottled at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Selvarey White Rum
Selvarey White Rum was introduced in 2014. It is co-owned by three brothers and Bruno Mars. After years of searching they finally selected Master Distiller Don Pancho Fernandez to craft their rum. Don Pancho was born in Cuba. His first job was cutting sugarcane in the fields next to his father. He would later become a Master Distiller of Havana Club Rum, and the Cuban Minister of Rum. After falling in love with a women from Panama he moved and built his own distillery, Las Cabras, from scratch in a small town called Pese in Herrera Province. Panama’s premier sugarcane region. Locally grown sugar cane is used to create grade A molasses. A natural yeast derived from pineapple is blended with the molasses and pure Panamanian mountain spring water. After fermentation the rum is distilled in a four column copper still built in 1922 by American Copper and Brass Works. The rum is aged in American oak barrels previously used to age bourbon. A blend of three year old and five year old rum is used in crafting Selvarey White Rum. After blending, the rum is carbon filtered to remove the color but not the flavor. Read more
Review: Malibu Island Spiced Rum
Malibu Island Spiced Rum was introduced March 2013. It is one of 14 varieties of rum created by Malibu. The 14th flavor Pineapple Upside Down Cake was just released. Island Spiced is made with rum distilled in Barbados. Coconut liqueur, light spices, cinnamon, vanilla, and Truvia are infused with the rum, before it is bottled at 60 proof in Canada. While there are several reduced calorie vodka’s on the market today, this is the first and only reduced calorie rum I’m aware of. Read more
Review: Angostura White Oak Rum
Angostura White Oak Rum is the number one selling rum in Trinidad and Tobago. They currently produce several rums for themselves and they also create rums for several others. Some of the other Angostura rums include a 3 year old, 5 year old, 7 year old, 12 year old, and their 1919 rum. The Angostura company got its start in 1824 when Dr. Siegert perfected the formula for aromatic bitters in Angostura Venezuela. By 1875 they moved the company to Trinidad. Angostura White Oak rum is made with Caribbean molasses, pure island stream water, and a proprietary yeast that ferments for 48-72 hours. The rum is continuously distilled in column stills and then aged in American White Oak barrels previously used to age bourbon. Read more
Review: Malibu Pineapple Upside Down Cake Rum
Malibu Pineapple Upside Down Cake Rum was just released. It is the 14th member of the Malibu family of rums. Each flavor starts with molasses from the finest sugarcane crops and pure water. After fermenting with a proprietary yeast it is distilled 3 times at the West Indies Distillery in Barbados. Coconut liqueur and flavors including pineapple are infused with the rum in Canada before bottling at 42 proof. Read more
Review: Denizen Aged White Rum
Denizen Aged White Rum was introduced in the US in 2010. It is one of two rums under the Denizen label. The other is Denizen Merchant Reserve, a rum blended with pot still rum from Jamaica and Rhum Grand Arome from Martinique. Denizen Aged White rum starts with rum column distilled at the Angostura Distillery in Trinidad. The rum is aged up to five years in American oak barrels previously used to age bourbon and charcoal filtered. The rum is blended in Amsterdam with 15 types of Jamaican pot distilled rums. Rum blending has taken place in the Netherlands since the early 1700’s. Read more
Review: Monkey Spiced Rum
Monkey Spiced Rum was created and financed by Zane Lamprey the host of cable TV shows Three Sheets, Drinking Made Easy, and Chug. He also makes the previously reviewed Monkey Toasted Coconut Rum. The brand is named for his stuffed monkey, TV companion. Monkey Spiced Rum is distilled at the Angostura Distillery in Trinidad with molasses mostly sourced from Dominican Republic grown sugar cane, and a proprietary yeast strain. The rum is distilled in a continuous distillation column still. Pure filtered water is blended to reduce to proof, before aged for 2-3 years in American oak barrels previously used to mature Jack Daniels. Natural flavors and spice including cassia from Burma, Tahitian Vanilla Bean, and a hint of coconut flavor are added before bottling at 70 proof in Rochester New York. The Monkey Rum line of products is currently available in California, Florida, New York, and New Jersey. There are several on-line sources. Read more
Review: Montanya Platino Rum
Montanya Platino Rum is one of three rums crafted in Crested Butte Colorado at an elevation of 8909 feet. Karen and Brice Hoskin founded the company in 2008, and on January 1 2016 the distillery and tasting room became 100% wind powered. The other rums include Oro a 1 year old gold rum, and Exclusiva a 3 year old double barrel rum that is only available in Colorado. Montanya Platino is crafted with non GMO sugar cane grown at the Lula Sugar Farm in Belle Rose Louisiana and pure mountain spring water. Champaign yeast is added and the rum is fermented for 7 days and then distilled in a 100 gallon all copper Alembic pot still imported from Portugal. The rum is aged for 1 year in American white oak barrels previously used to age Stranahan’s Whiskey for 2-5 years and then Montanya Oro Rum for 1 year. The rum is filtered through coconut husk charcoal filter to remove the color. A touch of Colorado Rocky Mountain honey is added before it is hand bottled. Read more
Review: 3 Howls Spiced Rum
3 Howls Spiced Rum was introduced in 2014. The inspiration came when Local 360, a Seattle restaurant that sources all ingredients served at the restaurant within a 360 mile radius, commented that no one locally made a spiced rum. The 3 Howls Distillery currently crafts 3 whiskeys, 3 vodkas, 2 gins, and 2 rums in the Soho neighborhood of Seattle Washington. 3 Howls Spiced Rum is made with sweet molasses from Barbados that is fermented with Scottish ale yeast in an open 600 gallon cypress wood tank. The spirit is twice distilled in a 300 gallon hybrid pot/column still. Fresh botanicals including vanilla bean, cinnamon, coffee, mace, allspice, and urfa biber are macerated with the rum for 7 days. A third distillation follows. Caramelized sugar and sweet Barbados molasses are then blended before the rum is hand bottled and labeled at 80 proof. Read more