Review: Peg Leg Colorado White Rum
Peg Leg Colorado White Rum is one of several spirits produced at Mile High Spirits in the Denver Ballpark neighborhood. Those spirits include Fireside Bourbon, Fireside Single Barrel Bourbon, Fireside Peach Whiskey, 2 gins, a vodka and the 80 proof Fireside Old Fashioned. After creating 50 private label brands for other clients Wyn Farrell and Joe Von Feldt recruited Chase Campbell and the trio opened Mile High Spirits in 2011. Peg Leg Colorado White Rum is distilled with Demerara sugar from raw sugarcane on a custom German built Arnold Holstein copper still, and proofed with filtered Rocky Mountain Water. Peg Leg Colorado White Rum and the rest of the Mile High Spirits are available in 11 state or online at www.drinkmhs.com/distillery Read more 
Review: Boardroom Rum
Boardroom Rum was released by Boardroom Spirits Distillery in Lansdale Pennsylvania November 2016. This is a bottle that has been sitting on my shelf waiting to be reviewed for some time now. I have been impressed with the other spirits I have reviewed from this distillery. I remember being exciting when this bottle arrived but when you have a bar with over 1800 spirits sometimes a bottle gets hidden behind others before you get a chance to review. What led me to search for this bottle was the information that Boardroom would soon be announcing the release of several new spirits. Boardroom Spirits Distillery was founded and built by three former Management Consultants, Vlad Mamedov, his young brother Malat, and his wife Zsuzsa Palotas. August 2017 Celebrity Chef Robert Irvine invested in and became part owner of the distillery with the other three. Boardroom Spirits currently also produces Boardroom Gin, Boardroom Vodka, a Fresh Cranberry and Fresh Citrus Vodka, a Beet Spirit, and Carrot Spirit. Boardroom Rum is made from 100% organic cane. It is fermented and distilled in small batches in-house. Read more
Review: Timber Creek Florida Rum
Timber Creek Florida Rum was first released October 2017. You may ask what is Florida rum. In order to be designated a Florida rum, a distiller must use 100% natural Florida limestone spring water and 100% natural Gulf Coast grown sugar cane. If aged, it must be barrel aged in the heat and humidity of Florida, and it must be bottled unfiltered. Timber Creek Florida Rum is made from 100% Louisiana coast grown sugar cane made into food grade molasses, and local Florida limestone spring water. It is double distilled in a custom copper pot still, and thumper on a 1400 acre family farm owned by Master Distiller Aaron Barnes, just north of Destin Florida. The spirit is aerated and rested in stainless steel before bottling unaged and unfiltered at 80 proof. Timber Creek uses a proprietary distilling and blending technique called Pureblend. Read more
Review: Maggies Farm White Rum
Maggies Farm White Rum is crafted in the Historic Strip District of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The rum and distillery are named for a Bob Dylan penned song, later covered by Rage Against the Machine. The distillery began production October 2013. It is made from Louisiana grown turbinado cane sugar. The sugar is open air fermented with a Caribbean-derived yeast over a three week period with a secondary high-ester fermentation. The spirit is distilled through a Hoga 100% copper pot still hand made in Spain. A gradual proofing method allows the spirit to rest over longer periods for further flavor development and ester retention. The rum is aged for 3-6 months in stainless for additional smoothness and ester development and is non chill filtered before bottling at 80 proof. Founder Tim Russell donates $1 from the sale of every bottle to animal rescues in your area. Read more
Review: SoCal Silver Rum
SoCal Silver Rum was released in 2019. It has already received critical acclaim picking up several Gold Medals along the way. It all started when Glenn Wilson’s wife purchased a home brew kit for him about five years ago. Glenn soon decided he wanted to create a beverage he had a real passion for, rum. After years of experimentation Glenn created SoCal Silver Rum. Glenn worked with a distillery in San Diego to produce this rum to his specifications. SoCal Silver is made from first pressed cane sugar, water, and two different strains of yeast. One strain is grown in Glenn’s garage, and the other is sourced from a 300 year old Master Distillery in the French West Indies. Read more
Review: Kulu Organic Rum
Kulu Organic Rum is one of three rums crafted at Hawaii Sea Spirits on the island of Maui. The others include Kula Dark Rum, and Kula Toasted Coconut Rum. Until recently they were just available on the island of Hawaii. The distillery also makes Ocean Organic Vodka. Kula is made from organic sugar cane grown on the 80 acres surrounding the distillery. Deep ocean mineral water sourced from 3000 feet below sea level is slow blended with the distilled rum to reduce to 80 proof. Read more
Review: Miami Club Rum
Miami Club Rum was originally produced at the first legal distillery in the history of Miami. The distillery opened in 2011 and is located in the heart of Miami’s famous Wynwood Arts District. Production has moved to a larger facility in Miami. Miami Club is made from sugar cane harvested from local fields. A 2/3 molasses, 1/3 cane juice blend is fermented and double distilled using a family recipe dating back to 1911 in Puerto Rico. The rum is slow aged in French Limousine and American White oak for 2 years while it is simultaneously infused with the music of Miami. Salsa, Samba, and other Caribbean rhythms are played to the rum 24-7 through vintage Bose 901 speakers to activate the barrels for a richer deeper flavor yield. A seven step filtration process follows including among other things, coconut shells, and a secret oxygenation technique used to aerate the spirit. Read more
Review: Single Prop Rum
Single Prop Rum was launched in Pennsylvania April 2018. Certified organic coconut water from 10 month old coconuts grown on a Nicaraguan plantation is blended onsite with rum distilled in Nicaragua. The rum is shipped to Pennsylvania where it is blended with rum distilled in the Virgin Islands. Single Prop is bottled unaged at 80 proof. Single Prop rum is named for and inspired by trips to the Caribbean in a single prop plane taken by the founders of Single Prop Rum. Anthony Lorubbio and Casey Parzych fell in love with what the locals where drinking. Coconut water and rum. Read more
Review: Puerto Angel Blanco Rum
Puerto Angel Blanco Rum was launched in the US the summer of 2015. It is crafted at a distillery founded in 1938 by the Krassel family. The family also grows their own sugarcane in the Oaxaca Mountains of Mexico. The hand harvested cane sugar is delivered by donkey down the mountain side to the distillery. The cane is immediately pressed. Fermentation with wild yeast begins within 24 hours of harvest. The spirit is small batch double distilled in copper pot stills, and aged for six months in oak casks. Read more
Review: Endless Summer Silver Rum
Endless Summer Silver Rum was released in Florida March 2017, and is now also available in South Carolina. Additional distribution will follow. It is part of Grain and Barrel Spirits Company, which also produces Dixie Vodka, and Chicken Cock Bourbon. Endless Summer is named for the 1964 surf film Endless Summer, and the concept that if one had enough time and money it would be possible to follow the summer up and down the world making summer endless. Their search for the perfect rum lead them to the birthplace of rum, Barbados. Endless Summer is made in Barbados at a distillery located on the beach. It is crafted with rum produced and blended from three different stills, and coral filtered water from a spring garden aquifer. It is bottled at 80 proof with the Endless Summer films original movie poster as it label. Read more