Tag: Rum

Delay in publishing the January 2024 US Rum Releases report

~ Robbie ~ Leave a comment

Apologies – I’ve been delayed in completing the January report (covering December 2023). I meant to finish it today, but I’m now dealing with an Internet outage at home (#$*&@# Spectrum..).

I should have it finished tomorrow (11 January).

One bit of good news is that starting this month I’ll be collecting much more information about *all* releases, even in categories like spiced rum that are excluded from the monthly report. I plan to use this to put together a year-in-review post at the end of the year. Thanks to Will and John from the Rumcast podcast for giving me that idea when they mentioned how difficult it is to get statistics on the rum market. I’ll also start slowly working backwards through 2023 as well, and if things work out I hope to be able to provide trends and comparisons over time.

Updates: Foursquare and Renaissance releases

~ Robbie ~ 2 Comments

I’ve updated the release history for Foursquare rums. It can be found on the References page. The highlights:

  • I’ve hidden the tabs for brands that I really don’t put effort into updating (nor do I want to) — RL Seale, Real McCoy, Doorlys, etc. There’s no point in me keeping those visible when they’re not complete or kept up to date and I don’t know anyone who’s really interested in tracking those.
  • The Private Releases tab has been reformatted. A section for Clifton Hall releases has been added, as well as one for what I’m calling “Limited Private Releases”, usually 1-3 bottle outturns that are intentionally very rare and designed to support a charitable cause. These have hand-drawn calligraphy labels.
  • The Velier tab has been reformatted and updated. Missing information (like casks) has been added, and a few releases that were missing age info have been updated. I also clarified that release quantities don’t include VSGB bottles, only the main release.

I’ve also updated the tracker for Renaissance Rums and added/updated labels that were published since the last update in early November. There’s also a very minor update to the SMWS bottle code sheet, I updated the distillery name for 158 (Yuza Distillery).

All of these are linked from the references page. If there are any updates or corrections I should make, please let me know!

Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — December 2023

~ Robbie ~ 2 Comments

Here’s a new list of upcoming rum releases for the US market compiled from TTB label certifications approved in November. These are only label approvals recorded at the US TTB, so none of these are likely to be available yet and it’s anyone’s guess when they might appear in stores.

This doesn’t include every rum label approval, I’ve tried to triage the approvals to the brands that people would recognize, while also including other labels that might be interesting and excluding spiced/flavored products and most cachacas.

The TTB approved 94 rum labels in total this month, 33 are covered here.

Continue reading “Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — December 2023” →

Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — November 2023

~ Robbie ~ 1 Comment

Here’s a new list of upcoming rum releases for the US market compiled from TTB label certifications approved in October. These are only label approvals recorded at the US TTB, so none of these are likely to be available yet and it’s anyone’s guess when they might appear in stores.

This doesn’t include every rum label approval, I’ve tried to triage the approvals to the brands that people would recognize, while also including other labels that might be interesting and excluding spiced/flavored products and most cachacas.

The TTB approved 105 rum labels in total this month, 66 are covered here.

Continue reading “Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — November 2023” →

Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — October 2023

~ Robbie ~ 2 Comments

Here’s a new list of upcoming rum releases for the US market compiled from TTB label certifications approved in September. These are only label approvals recorded at the US TTB, so none of these are likely to be available yet and it’s anyone’s guess when they might appear in stores.

This doesn’t include every rum label approval, I’ve tried to triage the approvals to the brands that people would recognize, while also including other labels that might be interesting and excluding spiced/flavored products and most cachacas.

The TTB approved 84 rum labels in total this month, 47 are covered here.

Continue reading “Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — October 2023” →

Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — September 2023

~ Robbie ~ 1 Comment

Here’s a new list of upcoming rum releases for the US market compiled from TTB label certifications approved in August. These are only label approvals recorded at the US TTB, so none of these are likely to be available yet and it’s anyone’s guess when they might appear in stores.

This doesn’t include every rum label approval, I’ve tried to triage the approvals to the brands that people would recognize, while also including other labels that might be interesting. Last month I included several cachacas, but this month I’m excluding them because there were quite a few. The list also doesn’t include flavored/spiced rums.

This month’s highlights include more Mexican rums from Alambique Serrano, rhum agricoles from Damoiseau, a new Providence release from Haiti, Raising Glasses and Rolling Fork have a partnership bottling, Worthy Park is either rebranding Rum-Bar or adding line extensions, and Samaroli’s next batch of rums have approved labels.

Interesting things: A new rum from Uganda as well as one distilled at Missouri State University. And a rum for real, actual spies.

Continue reading “Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — September 2023” →

Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — August 2023

~ Robbie ~ 2 Comments

Here are some upcoming rum releases for the US market approved in July 2023. These are only label approvals recorded at the US TTB, there’s no news on when these will actually hit stores (though a few are already available for pre-sale online). Anything else filed in July that’s approved in August will be included in next month’s report.

This post covers rum label approvals from July 2023. I don’t include flavored/spiced rums. This month we have releases from Rolling Fork, Barbancourt, Hampden Estate, Dillon, Goslings, Monymusk, Privateer, Raising Glasses, Bayou, Grander, Virago, and Royal Cane as well as several new brands from Mauritius and Indonesia and a new rum and clairin from Haiti as well as new Panama rum releases from Kirkland (Costco).

You can find last month’s edition of this report here.

Continue reading “Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — August 2023” →