Loveday Cornish Rum (with organic molasses)

Loveday Distilling (Cornwall) offers a nice organic rum made with smoked figs, orange peel and ginger. This is produced in small batches using slow-fermented organic molasses, ageing in oak ex-bourbon casks.

Sold in bottles sealed with home-compostable tamper-proof seals made from seaweed. Sent in flexi-hex cardboard packaging.

Gold Rum uses slow-ferment organic molasses distilled in oak for at least 2 years, with flavours of bergamot, vanilla, honeycomb, gingerbread, toasted pecan & smoke. Spiced Rum features notes of orange, clove, fig, muscovado, sweet spice & smoke.

This company was founded by two friends who used to work on the island of St Agnes in the Scilly Isles.

It offers a refill scheme for wholesale stockists and single bottles returned by customers, and feeds leftover ‘dunder’ (from distilling the organic molasses to some very happy local pigs!

Why Switch to Artisan Rum?

Rum is one of the world’s most popular spirits, enjoyed by ‘old dog’ sailors and pirates! Created in the Caribbean in the 17th century, rum is made from sugarcane that is crushed to extract the molasses (if you like gingerbread, you’ll like rum).

The sugar converts to alcohol to produce a high-alcohol spirit, so keep measures low. It’s easy to get smashed on rum! Soldiers were so fond of it, they were often paid in rum.

Corks are too dense to compost, so recycle at off license or send in bulk to Recorked.

White rum is not aged as long as dark rum (which takes years to mature) and some brands age in oak barrels for deeper flavour. A few rums offer blends with honey, but apart from that, most rums are vegan.

You can’t really have a ‘local rum’, because most rum contains Caribbean ingredients (we have too much rain and cold, to grow sugar!) But you can support artisans who blend the rum, and bring money into local communities.