Lazydog Artisan Spiced Rum (from Leicestershire)

Lazydog Rum (Leicestershire) is an award-winning brand of rum, made in the heart of England. All bar the honey version is vegan-friendly.

• Signature Silver Rum has just 4 ingredients (molasses, water, yeast and time!) with a  buttery caramel aroma (serve from the freezer over ice, or with fresh-squeezed pineapple juice.
• Spiced rum features cloves, cinnamon, orange peel and vanilla, aged on oak for a rich taste. Serve neat over ice or with your favourite mixer.
• Pumpkin-spiced rum is infused with raw panela sugar, for a spicy autumn drink.
• Sloe Rum is made with hand-picked sloe berries from within 2 miles, ideal over ice for winter days (or serve from a hip flask).

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.