Richland Rum founders Erik and Karin Vonk are helping lead Georgia's craft spirits movement with a farm-to-glass distillery.

Expression to Try: Zacapa XO ABV: 40% Average Price: $110 The Rum: Diageo’s Ron Zacapa makes one of the best rums to ever come out of Guatemala. This rum is made with only sugar cane honey.

Most rum produced in the U.S. - and worldwide - is not made from sugar cane, but rather processed molasses, a refined sugar byproduct that can be made from cane or beet sugar.

This is the 2018 harvest, which was large enough to weigh in at 1,695 tons of sugar cane, which became 136 tons of molasses, which became 5,418 bottles of rum at the end of the day.

Owney’s Rum is a sugar-forward spirit that combines molasses, yeasts, and NYC water into a truly unique and delicious rum that feels new and classic at the same time. Buy it here for $29.74 ...

Copalli White RumABV: 42% (84 proof). As mentioned above, this is a fresh sugar cane juice-based rum, and it’s a blend of pot and column distillate that was rested in stainless steel tanks.

Spotlight on Business: Sugar cane and rum in Hawaii — Back to the future. Monday, January 07, 2019 12:05 am. 1/9 ... Most rum on the market today is produced from molasses, ...

Both molasses and molasses/sugar cane juice blends are used as a base. The rums are aged in various casks, including ex-bourbon, Sherry, and wine, to create complex and layered flavor profiles.

Kō Hana Distillery prides itself in owning the largest sugar cane farm in Hawai‘i and creating rum directly from the plant, says farm manager Jakob Dewald. “What makes us truly unique is we’re making ...