Description
Eastside Distilling has been producing high-quality, master-crafted Small-Batch Bourbon, American Whiskey, Flavored Whiskeys, A Potato – Gluten-Free Vodka, American Rum, Spiced Rums, and Holiday Drinks in Southeast Portland’s Distillery Row since 2008. We believe that locally-produced spirits simply taste better, so all of our unique products are made right here in Portland, Oregon from natural ingredients in small batches for unparalleled quality and taste. Eastside Distilling introduced Below Deck Rums, the first in a series fine and flavored rums in 2009, and has since launched several more award-winning spirits, including Burnside Bourbon and Portland Potato Vodka, and our new Cherry Bomb Whiskey. Eastside also produces small batch and seasonal products like our Holiday Spiced Liqueur and new Peppermint Bark and Egg Nog Liqueurs.
Below Deck Ginger Rum
Eastside Distilling Tasting Note
Below Deck Ginger Rum is is a bold and zesty rum, handcrafted and flavored using natural ingredients. We don’t sugar, so it mixes well without making your drink overly sweet. It is easy enough to make it sweeter by adding simple syrup or sweetened soda such as cola or 7-up. Our friends think Ginger Rum and cola (or root beer) is a wonderful drink.
Proof66 Tasting Note
Eastside Distilling (formerly Deco Distilling) was founded in 2009 by Lenny Gotter and Bill Adams–long-time friends who shared “a passion for distilled spirits.” They strive to produce spirits made from ingredients found in the localities of Portland, Oregon where the distillery makes its home. Below Deck Ginger rum (formerly known as Deco Distilling) is a flavored rum craft-distilled in Portland, Oregon.
It is flavored with all-natural ingredients and no added sugar with the intention of preventing overly sweet drinks. We’re told that it is highly recommended with lemonade. They also suggest trying Below Deck Ginger with pumpkin pie.
The Pourfool Tasting Note
Eastside Distilling “Below Deck” Ginger Rum is instantly and radically different from almost every other Ginger Rum on the market and, I might add, aggressively so. This is NOT sweet. Not even by intimation. One of my biggest pet peeves is having to hunt around in a beverage to try to find the flavor of whatever infusion is named on the label. This Ginger tastes, by God, like GINGER. Fresh, hot, uncut ginger root and plenty of it. Under the ginger lurks that molasses, so the total impression is not wimpy and indistinct, like most flavored rums I taste, but powerful and assertive and intense. What this does is make this Rum a flat-out killer mixer, as in the tiny cocktail we made of this and New Amsterdam Pineapple Vodka. I am, at best, ambivalent about flavored spirits but the sweetness of the Vodka and the fresh punch of the Ginger Rum added up to a genuinely bewitching combination. As a sipper, neat, this may be tough going for newer drinkers but, for an old dog like me, this was Ginger Rum like I always dreamed it could be. 93 Points
