About this episode

The episode features an interview with Seth Benhaim, founder of Mainland Rum, discussing the challenges and vision of sourcing American rums.

Note: As a reminder, Rumcast Reserve bottles are officially available in stores and shipping from our online retailer! You can grab your bottles here. You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. In this episode, we sat down with the founder of the only independent rum bottler exclusively focused on sourcing rums from the United States, Seth Benhaim of Mainland Rum. Since launching a little over a year ago, Mainland Rum has released some of the longest aged American rums to hit the market in recent years, including a 10-year-old Louisiana and a 9-year-old California to go along with releases sourced from Georgia and Florida. With their first unaged release from a Minnesota distillery set to hit the market soon, we figured it was a good time to catch up and learn more about Mainland's vision. We discussed: Arriving at the idea to focus solely on American rum The challenge of sourcing longer aged rums from craft distilleries Negative perceptions associated with the category The double-edged sword of releasing rums from closed distilleries First impressions of Mainland's unaged "S. Pombe" release sourced from Black Frost Distilling The future of the American rum…

People in this episode

Hosts: Will Hoekenga, John Gulla

Guest: Seth Benhaim

Topics covered

• American rum
• craft distilleries
• rum sourcing
• aged rums
• rum perceptions
• Mainland Rum

Keywords

• American rums
• Mainland Rum
• craft distilleries
• aged rums
• rum perceptions
• S. Pombe
• Black Frost Distilling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mainland Rum, Black Frost Distilling

Places: Louisiana, California, Georgia, Florida, Minnesota

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