Last Light Cask Strength 100% Pot Still Rum

700ML. 56% ALC/VOL. | Auckland
Contains approximately 31 Standard Drinks.

Our rum maker Jonathon, honed his distilling skills at home on a still made from a 50 litre beer keg. Yes you read that right. At home. Fun booze pub quiz knowledge. How many countries legally allow you to distil at home? That’s right. One. Little old New Zealand.

Soon enough the beer keg still was too small for the volume of rum production that Jonathon had in mind so he set about building a bigger still out of a 1000 litre stainless steel IBC. IBCs are used for the storage of bulk liquid. They are handy because they are square which means they can be stacked and moved about easily. However where others saw storage, Jon saw a still. With a built in drain and manhole cover and easy to manage welding geometry Jon had soon assembled a pot still in which to manage our stripping runs.

A stripping run is the first distillation and is called so as it strips out water, yeast and other sediments from the mash as well as capturing as much of the spirit as possible before moving to the final spirit run which at Last Light takes place on our column still and creates a more refined and clean spirit.

Our 100% Pot Still Rum doesn’t make it to the column still. Instead it undergoes a second distillation in the pot, which in itself is quite an inefficient distillation process, allowing for more of the heavier alcohols that would normally not survive column distillation to remain in the new make rum. These heavier alcohols create a more full bodied and flavourful Last Light rum drinking experience.

Awards

• 2024 Spirits Awards - Silver Medal
• 2023 Rumbles - Silver Medal 

Tasting Notes

An enticing nose rich with the smells of Mum's baking. Carrot cake, maple syrup, orange spice bound with walnut and pecan. The nose carries a dusty mahogany depth that brings to mind a wood paneled reading room with shelves of leather bound books. On the palate the rum is thick and viscous where lashings of sweet brown sugar wrestle with pencil shavings before the oak bursts through. The oak then settles and leaves lingering wisps of ginger, raisin and Xmas spices.

Our Cask Strength 100% Pot Still Rum