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Ron Colón | German Rum Festival 2023

The Ron Colón story begins in 2018 with two fellow friends, Thurman Wise and Pepijn Janssens. With a combined 20 years of experience in the spirits industry, Janssens and Wise spent a lot of time traveling the world and exploring new markets for emerging brands.

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Takamaka | German Rum Festival 2023

We are the spirit of the Seychelles. We fill each bottle with the character of our 100 islands, our craft and our people. The result – a glimpse into our remote paradise. Born on these islands, made from these islands, and welcoming everything and everyone on the horizon to be a part of our journey. Including what we have yet to discover.

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Flor de Cana | German Rum Festival 2023

This rum from Nicaragua is definitely a premium spirit. The sugar cane for the Flor de Caña is cultivated in own cultivation – and that for over 100 years. The constant climate and mineral-rich soil ensure optimal growth. After careful distillation, the rum matures in American oak barrels in traditional, non-air-conditioned warehouses.

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Ron Carúpano | German Rum Festival 2023

In the Venezuelan distillery Carúpano, incidentally the oldest distillery in Venezuela, the water used to produce the rums comes either from a spring or a deep well, ensuring greater purity and guaranteeing that no undesirable odors or flavors are created.

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Schotman Peated Rum | German Rum Festival 2023

Schotman holds the patent for making Peated Rum. What a journey it is! Started with a small 10 liter kettle to see if the taste of the smoke could be captured. When this was successful, this experimental Peated Rum was allowed to rest on a small barrel to see how the taste developed.

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CARGO CULT | German Rum Festival 2023

In the 1960s, founder Jonny Croft’s father worked as a doctor in Papua New Guinea. While creating his Spiced Rum, Jonny was looking for a pure, tropically aged rum from the South Pacific and was fascinated by his father’s stories of the cargo cults he had encountered.

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Don Papa Rum| German Rum Festival 2023

Don Papa was inspired by Sugarlandia, a mystical and seductive world where not everything is as it seems and where time somehow passes more slowly. In the heart of this land, on the island of Negros, is the active volcano Mount Kanlaon. There you can find sugar cane, which grows wonderfully on fertile soil at the foot of the mountain.

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The Real McCoy Rum | German Rum Festival 2023

The Real McCoy Rum is based on the story of Captain Bill McCoy, a so-called rum runner from the days of Prohibition. Around 1920, when alcohol was strictly banned in the U.S., McCoy began transporting rum from the Caribbean to off the coast of New York.

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Rum Artesanal | German Rum Festival 2023

Rum Artesanal is an exclusive line of exotic rums of “handcrafted rums” that reflects all the diversity of the rum-producing Caribbean in high quality: a selection of special rum varieties of traditional producing countries such as Jamaica, Panama, Central America, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. We are looking forward to two new arrivals from Guyana and Trinidad

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Black Tot | German Rum Festival 2023

As a sailor in the Royal Navy, one had a choice: either rum or its equivalent in cash. Most opted for pay in liquid form, the “tot”. Rum and seafaring, after all, belonged together. In 1731, official rum rations were introduced in the British fleet. On the long crossings, the blend from various parts of the Caribbean simply lasted longer than wine, beer or water, which spoiled particularly quickly.

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Penny Blue | German Rum Festival 2023

1,600 kilometers off the coast of Madagascar lies Mauritius. The tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean is home to the Medine Distillery – and a stamp legend. The island distillery’s single estate rum is named after it, the Penny Blue.

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