The Best American Rums

Turbinado sugars and dark molasses are fermented and then distilled at Breckenridge. With that distillate, it ages in the brand's own bourbon casks and it is finished by infusing roots, spices and dried fruits to make a truly excellent, honest, 100% natural spiced rum.

Berkshire Mountain Distillers Ragged Mountain Rum is made in Great Barrington, Massachusetts at the Berkshire’s first legal distillery since Prohibition. Ragged Mountain Rum is a traditional pot-still style of rum, hand-crafted in small batches and aged in used bourbon barrels.

Wicked Dolphin’s Florida Spiced Rum is spiced using honey, oranges, and undisclosed spices. Some of their aged rum is mixed with the spiced rum to create this bottling.

The small-batch pot-still rum is sourced from the Caribbean and blended and bottled at the A. Smith Bowman Distillery located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It comes in at 40% ABV.

Siesta Key Toasted Coconut Rum is produced in small batches and flavored with real shredded coconut. It is bottled at 35% ABV.

The San Francisco Bay Area’s St. George Spirits dates back to 1982 when they opened one of the first craft distilleries in the U.S. Their vast product line spans nearly every category of spirits, traditional or otherwise. St. George Spirits California Agricole Rum uses sugarcane sourced from California’s Imperial Valley, which is immediately shipped to the distillery for pressing. Distillation is done in a 500-liter copper pot-still, which differs from real column-distilled rhum agricole made in Martinique. It’s bottled unaged at 43%. The distillery also has a four-year, French oak aged version of this rum.

Twenty Boat Cape Cod Amber is handcrafted at the site of Truro Vineyards and is produced at the first legal distillery on Cape Cod since Prohibition. It consists of American organic sugarcane and a blend of spiced sourced from a local Cape Cod spice supplier. Among others, it includes cardamom, vanilla bean, cinnamon, rosehip, anise, lemon and orange peels, allspice, nutmeg, and chai.

Made from regional sugarcane syrup and molasses, St. Augustine is fermented, aged and pot-distilled on site in the eponymous city. It is bottled at 45% ABV. The resulting color is pale straw.

Wicked Dolphin uses 100% Florida sugar for their rum. Their distillery is located in Cape Coral, Florida and they use an American copper pot still, "the largest in South Florida." The rum is then aged for an undisclosed amount of time in used, Kentucky bourbon barrels.

Produced at the first legal distillery on Cape Cod since prohibition, Twenty Boat Cape Cod Amber is handcrafted at the site of Truro Vineyards. It consists of American organic sugarcane and is aged in chardonnay barrels. The name Twenty Boat refers to a 1930 event in which the twenty boats kept watch in Provincetown in an effort to capture a rum runner.