Day Drinker

This is the first Rum that I did not create. This one was created by my youngest daughter during a company meeting. At the company meeting well before we had a facility, while discussing wording for labels, posts, and this webpage, my youngest daughter (9 years old at the time) came up to us and said she had an idea. She told us about another gnome who she named Gnetta, she has to be Gnorm's wife, and she has to be just getting out of bed. She is holding her coffee with messy hear, her pajamas on, and it has to be coffee flavored.

Well with that much information we had everything we needed except a rum recipe that tasted good. We were off to the races within 15 minutes of her first words. The artwork fell into place without question. It was one fo the easiest to put together because she had such a clear vision and knew what she was looking for. in the end she even named it while we all sat and discussed this one.

As discussed above, my daughter had this whole plan in her head and just laid it all out for us. The last piece of her puzzle was a coffee rum that tastes good. That's where I had to step in and take over. We played with several options and methods, some were pretty good but most were not. Finally during a family game night we hit the jackpot. I took some beans and added them to a gin basket and distilled the rum through them. WOW, did that pop. The aroma was perfect, the flavor was excellent, the choice of bean was even on point.

We completed that run and started letting people try it. We very quickly learned that a clear, water like, liquid that then tastes like coffee, is not what people like. We found that most people, unfamiliar with the distillery, didn't like it at all. The big complaint was that it was clear. I threw some beans in the finished product just to try and give it some color and that was the key. Once it takes on a slightly brown color people knew it wasn't water and did a full 180. The same people who didn't like it clear, loved it brown.