Guide
Old Fashioned with Rum
Recipe, history, and four builds from a bar professional: why the ur-cocktail gets bigger with rum, with a video to mix along.
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Deep dives, guides, and references – everything you need to understand and enjoy rum, powered by the RumX community.
Guide
The Perfect Rum Glass
Nosing glass, Glencairn, 1920s Blenders & co. – what 53 participants figured out over five years of discussion.
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Deep Dive
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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Guide
What is Rum?
Definition, production, ageing and history: the complete guide to understanding rum.
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Reference
Rum Glossary
All key rum terms explained – from ABV to Wash, from Agricole to Column Still.
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Rum brands that changed their name
Plantation is now Planteray, A.H. Riise is now Old St. Croix: which brands were renamed and where to find their bottles now.
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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.
Guyana
What is Demerara rum?
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 closed estates live on as marks, …
Enmore
Is the Enmore distillery still open?
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 …
Port Mourant
What does Port Mourant rum taste like?
Port Mourant is the most famous mark in Demerara rum and one of the most misdated. Its double wooden vat still outlived the distillery and runs to this day at Diamond, so you can …
Uitvlugt
Is the Uitvlugt distillery still open?
Uitvlugt is a ghost distillery whose name lives on in some of Guyana's most coveted aged rum. For decades it was the transfer point where the country's wooden stills waited before …
Diamond
What is the Diamond distillery?
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 …
Demerara Distillers Ltd
What rum does Demerara Distillers (DDL) make?
Demerara Distillers is the company that ended up holding everything. As Guyana's only surviving rum maker, it runs the world's last wooden stills alongside modern columns at its …