This is Key West's first legal rum distillery since Prohibition.
Chef Paul Menta's award winning Key West rums are aged in Salt Cured Barrels using locally and naturally-sourced authentic food flavours – Key Lime, Coconut, Madagascar Vanilla crème brûlée – and Florida demerara sugar (never molasses) to produce a rum with flavour depths and aromatic heights worthy of the distinction: Chef Distilled.
Aged in brand new American Oak Barrels with a number 3 char inside the barrel. We take the new barrel down the street to the ocean and fill it with fresh sea water.
After the barrel swells over night, we drain out the ocean water and let it cure. This removes all the fresh water and leaves a salt residual that opens the pores of the wood letting it age better and release the good flavours from the wood into the rum.
A Ph change after 1 year appears that smooths the rum out even more.
It’s a one of a kind rum that represents the Key West Style that has now become famous worldwide. Never filtered you will see why Raw and Unfiltered is truly unique!
A flavourful aged rum with notes of fig, plum, vanilla and finishes with a pepper like taste in the mouth from the magnesium in the salt.