Rum Knowledge
Deep dives, guides, and references – everything you need to understand and enjoy rum, powered by the RumX community.
The Perfect Rum Glass
Nosing glass, Glencairn, 1920s Blenders & co. – what 53 participants figured out over five years of discussion.
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Diplomático Deconstructed
What’s behind the most popular rum on RumX? Data from 1,400+ reviews, three distillation methods, and community voices.
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What is Rum?
Definition, production, styles, and history – the complete guide to understanding rum.
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Rum Glossary
All key rum terms explained – from ABV to Wash, from Agricole to Column Still.
Read more →Regions & distilleries
Long-form guides written from our own catalogue data: what a mark on the label really tells you, which distilleries closed decades before the vintage in your hand, and which bottles are worth it.
Demerara rum and the wooden stills
Guyana is the last home of the wooden still, and the only rum country where the place on the label is almost never the place the rum was made. Its rum, called Demerara after the …
The last wooden Coffey still in the world
Enmore gave the world the last wooden Coffey still, built here around 1880 and still running at Diamond. It is also one of only two Guyanese estates where you can actually buy rum …
1732, and what the records actually say
Port Mourant is the most famous mark in Demerara rum and one of the most misdated. The distillery closed in 1955, yet its double wooden vat still runs to this day at Diamond, so …
The estate where the stills gathered
Uitvlugt is a ghost with the best reviews in Guyana. The distillery closed in December 1999 and its stills were hauled to Diamond, leaving the stillhouse in ruins, yet aged …
The address where Guyana's stills ended up
Diamond is the address, not the company. It is the plant south of Georgetown where every still worth keeping in Guyana finally ended up, and where the last wooden stills on Earth …
The last distillery in Guyana
Demerara Distillers is the company that ended up holding everything. As Guyana's only surviving rum maker, its Diamond plant runs the world's last wooden pot stills and the last …