Among aficionados of craft spirits, the obsessive quest for the “authentic,” “pure” and “rustic” intensifies with each passing year. Not too long ago, rhum agricole from Martinique or Guadeloupe — a ...

Kō Hana Distillery prides itself in owning the largest sugar cane farm in Hawai‘i and creating rum directly from the plant, says farm manager Jakob Dewald. “What makes us truly unique is we’re making ...

The vast majority of the world’s rum is distilled as a near neutral spirit—think vodka but made with low-grade molasses. These rums are meant to disappear into coke and poolside piña coladas and many ...

“It all started here,” said Bob Gunter, president and CEO of Kōloa Rum Company. “It” being Hawaiʻi’s sugarcane industry and “here” being Old Kōloa Town on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i. Kōloa Mill ...

Step inside the Noel Distillery in Donaldsonville and you’ll smell the sweet, funky scent of cane juice fermenting and see Natalie Noel, her father Frank, sister, and aunt hard at work checking ...

If there’s one thing that rum geeks can all be said to have in common, it’s a thirst for nitty-gritty details of how their favorite spirit is produced, matured and refined. People who are really into ...

For over a decade, Hawaii's Koloa has specialized in rum, rum and more rum. Craft distilling has exploded across the United States, but rum still takes a big back seat to whiskey, gin and vodka. Far ...