Dropworks barrel drop rum is the first barrel-matured product to join the core line up of british-made rums made from scratch at the dropworks distillery. Barrel drop is worth the wait using only the finest raw ingredients, including fermentations using the world-first wild trinity yeast that you wonâ t find anywhere else, other than dropworks rums, the liquid is batch-distilled before being matured in a variety of casks, including a world-first rum hybrid american and portuguese oak barrel to give complex flavours and delicious notes of rum & raisin ice cream, jammy dates and warm winter spices. Yum â one of the first deliveries, once the distillery was built of course, was a whole variety of barrels that weâ d chosenâ explains dropworks founder, lewis hayes. Â all of the casks used to produce barrel drop were selected and paired with our liquid, including a small portion crafted from fresh, virgin american oak, which gives the product its sweet vanilla notes. One idea that really excited us was a world-first rum barrel hybrid which combined american oak str shaved, toasted, recharred and portuguese oak str to create the rum & raisin ice cream notesâ it just made sense to us as we knew this would deliver an incredible taste â fermentation used the wild trinity yeast that is a world-first and exclusive to all dropworks rums. The spirits are distilled through either or column, double pot and double retort distillation methods using extremely narrow cuts before maturation. ...
