Two Drifters Rum (climate neutral in zero waste packaging)

Two Drifters Rum is a unique brand of your favourite Caribbean tipple, made in Devon with green energy, and sold in bottles with compostable seals, and sugarcane fibre labels.

Created by a couple who spent their honeymoon on St Lucia (home to rum!), they decided (with a joint background in marketing and chemistry) to get together to found a sustainable rum company in England.

One of the first rums with a carbon-negative footprint, it has high hopes to capture 1% of the UK rum market by 2028, and 1% of the global market by 2035. All without harming the earth.

Sold in a light, British-made glass bottle with FSC-certified corks, any carbon from importing rum ingredients is offset via Climeworks.

Corks are too dense to compost (and are choking hazards if left lying around). So recycle them at off licenses, or send off in bulk to Recorked.

Rum is a pretty strong boozy tipple (easy to get smashed on, so don’t drink too much!) These rums ferment 100% molasses, and blend with purified Devon water (for white rum) or spices and waste cacao husks (for spiced rum). Waste molasses are given to local farms.

The Two Drifters Rum Range

You can also buy taster sets, to try before you buy full bottles!

1. Signature Rum is for the purists, with flavours of orange peel and muscovado sugar, matured in ex-Madeira casks for a year, which gives an orange aroma.
2. Pure White Rum has fresh notes of vanilla, apple, white pepper and lime zest. Crisp and fresh.
3. Lightly Spiced Rum is made with cacao husks (a waste product of making chocolate), and has notes of vanilla, chai, toffee apple and cacao.
4. Overproof Spiced Pineapple Rum has notes of ripe fruits, salted caramel and crème brûlée, again enhanced with waste cacao husks for a chocolate flavour.

Serve the old-fashioned way by stirring with cubed ice, sugar syrup and orange bitters, and garnish with orange zest. Or just serve ‘on the rocks’ and garnish with orange slice.