Review: Crusoe Organic Spiced Rum
Crusoe Organic Spiced Rum is one of two rums handcrafted by the husband and wife team of Melkon Khosrovian and Litty Mathew at the Greenbar Distillery, the first legal distillery in Los Angeles since prohibition. The other rum is an Organic Silver. The Crusoe name and bottles label are inspired by Robinson Crusoe. The Greenbar Distillery also creates IXA Organic Tequila, Slow Hand Organic Whiskey, Fruitlab Organic Liqueurs, and Tru Organic Gin and Vodka. Crusoe Organic Rum is made with organic molasses and sugarcane. To retain the flavor they use a micro oxygenation process. Hand sliced and crushed whole allspice, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and vanilla, along with hand zested oranges, osmanthus flower, and molasses are macerated with the rum for 3-4 weeks before bottling at 70 proof. The bottles are light weight, the labels are made with 100% recycled material, and they plant a tree for each bottle sold. Read more 
Review: George Ocean Spiced Rum
George Ocean Spiced Rum is one of five rum varieties made in Dallas Texas by Dynasty Spirits. The other rums include Coconut, Coffee, White and Gold. The rum base is distilled in the West Indies with George Ocean Spiced rum using their Gold rum as a base. Natural flavors and spice are blended in Dallas before bottling at 70 proof. The brother team of Dusty and Devin O’Dell not only create the George Ocean line of rum, but also Greenhouse Gin, Henderson Whiskey and Nue Vodka. Read more
Review: Siesta Key Spiced Rum
Siesta Key Spiced Rum was introduced in 2010. it is one of six rums crafted in Sarasota Florida at the Drum Circle Distillery. The other varieties include Toasted Coconut, Distillers Reserve Spiced, Beer Barrel Finish Spiced, Silver and Gold. Master Distiller and CEO Tony Roberts uses a blend of his Silver and Gold rum as a base. These rums are hand crafted with molasses made from 100% Florida grown sugar cane, and triple filtered water. The rum is distilled in small batches in a copper pot still and aged in a variety of American oak barrels. The rums are then blended before infusing with honey and real spices and then bottled at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Captain Morgan Private Stock Rum
Captain Morgan Private Stock Rum is made from the finest Captain Morgan Reserves. Those reserves are made with Caribbean sugar cane molasses and the rum is distilled in a continuous still. It is aged for 2 years in barrels formerly used to age bourbon. Captain Morgan Original is aged for 1 year. A proprietary blend of Caribbean spice is added before bottling at 80 proof. Captain Morgan Original is bottled at 70 proof. Captain Morgan has been distilling their rum in St. Croix since 2012, prior to that it was distilled in Puerto Rico. Read more
Review: Shellback Spiced Rum
Shellback Spiced Rum was introduced in 2012. It is part of E&J Gallo’s growing line of spirits that include E&J Gallo Brandy, New Amsterdam Vodka and Gin, and Camarena Tequila. Shellback Spiced rum is made in Barbados at the West Indies Rum Distillery with Caribbean grown sugar cane that is pressed into molasses. After fermentation it is distilled in a combination of column and pot stills and then aged for 12 months in American white oak barrels formerly used to age American Whiskey. No sugar is added, but 12 exotic spices including allspice, cassia, cinnamon bark oil, ginger oil, clove, nutmeg, and vanilla are blended before bottling at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Brinley Gold Shipwreck Spiced Rum
Brinley Gold Shipwreck Spiced Rum was introduced in 2011. It is one of five flavored rums crafted on St. Kitts by the Brinley family. They also recently added a Coconut Rum Cream to their product line. At 69 square miles St. Kitts is the smallest country in the Western Hemisphere. The Shipwreck name is in honor of a British troop ship than sunk off the St. Kitts coast in 1782. Brinley rum is made with molasses from Caribbean sugar cane. It is column distilled and aged for four years in oak barrels. Natural vanilla, nutmeg, clove, orange, and exotic island spices are infused before bottling at 72 proof. Read more
Review: Blackheart Premium Spiced Rum
Blackheart Premium Spiced Rum was introduced in 2010. It is made with Caribbean rum, with spice, caramel, and other natural flavors added. It is bottled in Bardstown Kentucky at 93 proof by the Heavan Hills Distillery. The rum is named for the sultry siren of the high seas pictured on the bottles label. Read more
Review: Cruzan 9 Spiced Rum
Cruzan 9 Spiced Rum was introduced September 9, 2010. They start with a rum base made with tropical rain water and high quality molasses shipped from their sugar plantations. An exclusive five column distillation process is used to remove the impurities. Once distilled the rum is aged in charred American oak barrels. Unlike most spiced rums that provide a vague description of the spices used in creating their rum, Cruzan lists on the bottles label the 9 spices used in crafting their rum. Those 9 spices include allspice, vanilla, cinnamon, pepper, ginger, nutmeg, clove, mace, and juniper berry. Read more
Review: Bacardi Oakheart Spiced Rum
Bacardi Oakheart Spiced Rum was introduced September 2011. For years Bacardi and Captain Morgan, the two best selling rum brands, each stayed on their side of the fence. Captain Morgan produced spiced rum, and Bacardi produced non spiced rum. Bacardi fired the first shot across the bow with Oakheart. Captain Morgan has since fired back with their Captain Morgan White rum. Oakheart Spiced rum is made with molassess, purified water, and a single strain of yeast, Le Levadura Bacardi. After fermenting and distilling the rum, it is aged in heavily charred American oak barrels for 1-3 years. Natural flavors and spice including maple, cinnamon, honey and vanilla are added before filtering and bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum may not have been the first spiced rum created, but they were the first to bottle their spiced rum at 92 proof. Several spiced rums launched after Sailor Jerry have followed their 92 proof lead, along with an ingredient list that includes spice, caramel, and natural flavors. It is named for Sailor Norman aka Jerry Collins, possibly the most famous tattoo artist of all time. After joining the Navy in 1930, Jerry ended up opening a tattoo shop in Hawaii where many a sailor left his shop, and the island wearing some of his original art on their skin. The Hawaiian Hula Girl picture on the bottles label is an actual picture of a tattoo he created. Sailor Jerry Spiced rum is made with Virgin Island rum, spice, caramel, and other natural flavors. Read more