Just Rum With It

Part 2 of our in depth conversation with Dave Marsland, creator of Drinks Enthusiast, Manchester Rum Festival, UK Brand Ambassador for Chairman's Reserve & all round nice guy.In this part we talk about Manchester Rum Festival, tasty treats coming out of Chairman's Reserve & touch on a few things we've been enjoying recently.

Part 1 of our in depth conversation with Dave Marsland, creator of Drinks Enthusiast, Manchester Rum Festival, UK Brand Ambassador for Chairman's Reserve & all round nice guy.In this part we talk about Dave's career to date.

On this Rumdamentals episode we discuss the role of barrel ageing in rum production.Topics include; the effect barrels have on rum, the role environment plays in the ageing process & how using different barrels can create different results.

Episode 3 of our rumdamentals series, today we look at the basics of distillation, focusing specifically on continuous or column distillation.We pick up the process again from episode 1, with our molasses wash. All the way through to just before the ageing process.

Episode 2 of our rumdamentals series, today we look at the basics of distillation, focusing specifically on batch or pot distillation.We pick up the process from episode 1, with our molasses wash. All the way through to just before the ageing process.

The first of our new series on rum fundamentals, or rumdamentals as we like to call them!This time we focus on the beginning of rum production; sugarcane & fermentation.We discuss the impact of sugarcane & yeast on flavour of the final product. As well as how these can be used to produce specific styles of rum.Please follow our Instagram: here

During this tough time we talk through some of our desert island rums.The full list includes:Velier 70th Anniversary Caroni 1996 21 YearWorthy Park Single Estate Reserve 57%Hampden Estate OverproofEl Dorado Rare Collection Enmore 1993Pussers Gunpowder ProofHabitation Velier Forsyths WP 502Clairin SajousSt Lucia Distillers 1931 5th Edition

On this week's episode, we discuss the most expensive rum we've tried, lots of Daiquiris & the best pound for pound rums out there at the moment.Some of our best pound for pound quarantine rums:Mount Gay EclipseAppleton Signature BlendSmith & CrossWray & NephewDoorly's XO.

Introducing the first of (hopefully) many, of our Just Rum With It podcasts.Today we briefly discuss rum history & some rum events that are coming up, as well as having a few drinks ourselves.