How It's Made

Made from scratch in Devon: fermented, distilled, aged and bottled under one roof.

Most rum sold in Britain is made somewhere else, shipped in ready made and bottled here. Ours is not. Every bottle of Two Drifters begins as molasses at our distillery just outside Exeter, and everything that happens between molasses and cork happens under this roof.

We start with 100% molasses and a seven day fermentation, seeded with a portion of dunder from previous batches to build depth of flavour. From there, multiple distillations through our pot and column stills, run entirely on renewable electricity.

Each rum is finished its own way:

• Pure White Rum is triple distilled, blended and brought to strength with purified Devon water.
• Lightly Spiced Rum and Overproof Spiced Pineapple Rum are spiced here at the distillery, with natural colour from 100% waste cacao husks, never caramel colouring.
• Signature Rum matures on site in French oak ex Madeira casks.

Nothing is wasted along the way. Spent molasses goes to local farms, the cacao husks that colour our spiced rums are themselves a waste product given a second life, and every gram of CO2 in the process is measured. That story is on our carbon negative page.

The whole thing happens in one building, and you can come and stand in the middle of it.