Plum Cake With Rum

Ingredients:
refined flour / all purpose flour
baking powder
vanilla extract
butter / oil
cinnamon powder
nutmeg powder
eggs
raisins
nuts
candid peel
sugar

Just follow the video as it is pretty straight forward.  If you do not want to make plum cake, just substitute the plums with another fruit.  We always recommend using Yorktown Silver Rum in your recipes.  Quality you can count on.

How To Customize Your Own Rum

How to customize your own rum.  Pictured above are several different infusions made from our Yorktown Silver Rum.  From left to right:  Coconut vanilla rum.  blackberry rum, blueberry rum and honeysuckle rum.  The bottles hold about 3 to 4 oz's and are just used and cleaned spice bottles.  I prefer glass but plastic can be used.  The blackberries were picked fresh and lightly bruised before adding the rum on top.  The blueberries came from the store and were not bruised prior to adding the rum which is why the rum is clear.  The coconut came from the store and cracked fresh the I added vanilla extract in with the rum.  Just a light amount as you do not want to overpower the rum or the coconut.  The honeysuckle was picked fresh and and rum poured over the top.

  You just need to let these sit for about 3 days.  Then they are ready for your entertainment.  One great idea is to add these over vanilla ice cream.  Pick out the berries or coconut and put some into a bowl along with the ice cream and also add about half an ounce of the rum to the ice cream.  Once you start experimenting with these types of infusions, you can't stop.  You will want to make more and more.  The other option is to make yourself a great sipping drink.  Our rum is already fantastic.  Customizing it is just lot's of fun.  Let us hear some of your ideas and maybe we can get them up here on the site for everyone to try.

  Question?  Is there a certain amount I should use when making my own infusions?
Answer:  No, it's up to you and what you think would be good.  What one person likes isn't necessarily going to be what another person likes.

Question:  Do the fruits need to be fresh picked?
Answer:  Again, it's a matter of personal taste.  Frozen fruit can be used as easily as fresh.

Question: How long will my infused fruit last in a jar?
Answer:  Rule of thumb is no longer than 6 months on the fruit left in a jar.  I would take the actual fruit out after a few weeks and use it, but the infused rum will last as long as years to come.  It won't get any better with age in any bottle.  But it is fun just knowing you always have a special treat around when you want it.

June 22nd, 2016 Learn Colonial Dance - Free Event - Last one of the year

On June 22nd, 2016 we are holding our last class of this year for learning Colonial Dance.  This class is taught by a Colonial Williamsburg professional instructor.  After this, you can learn Colonial Dance at Colonial Williamsburg for a fee.  But here you get to learn it for free at the Distillery.  This is our third and final class this year and we will not do this again until next year and that depends on availability of our instructor.  This class is a lot of fun and did I mention it was free?  If you have not had a chance to try either our Gin or our Gold Medal award winning Rum, then make sure you come to this event and you can sample either or both the Gin and the Rum for free at this class.

  We will be posting a video or two of our last class very soon so you can see what you have been missing.  This is also a great time to meet the owner, Dr D.  Pictured back right with the flags behind him.

We will do our best to try and get one of these great big smiles for you from Dr D when you come in too.  If not, maybe we can get him to tell you a bad joke.  That usually gets him smiling.

  So put this date on your calendar and plan on coming out to learn Colonial Dance.  (Did I mention it was free too)?  

Yorktown Rum Takes Gold Medal In Los Angeles, California Competition - 91 Points

Our Yorktown Rum has just finished with a Gold Medal winning in an International competition.  The rum came up 91 points in the Los Angeles, California International Spirits competition for 2016 beating out some very big names and we once again beat out Bacardi where they had multiple entries.

  What is even more impressive is we beat out most entries where the rum was aged.  There were only 3 rums that were above us in this competition.  Congratulations to Dictador 20 Year Old Solera System Rum that came in with a very impressive 96 points, Dos Maderas 5+3 Rum that came in with 93 points and Blue Water Ultra that came in with 92 points.  We share 91 points with Cruzan Single Barrel Rum, Cruzan Aged Dark Rum, Kirk and Sweeney Rum. Pelican Harbor Light Rum.

  What we are able to show by all of this is that aging is not a serious factor in the quality of any rum nor is spicing one's rum.  We beat out many of those by using quality ingredients.  Check out the results here at this link below.

http://www.laspiritscomp.com/wos/spirits_competition/documents/Gold%20Medal%20Awards.pdf

Adding flavors to rum did not help anyone in the competition.  Dark rum was not better than a white rum.  Dictador 20 Year Old Solera System Rum is very expensive to produce.  Who wants to age a rum for 20 years?  Sure, it got the company 96 points which is fantastic and they were named best of the best, but at what cost?  (I have to admit, I would be more than happy to try a bottle).  So as you will notice, Cruzan, who we share 91 points with, both of their entries were aged rums.  Again, at what cost?  We did not age our rum at all.  We did not color it nor did we add any additional flavors.  We just used quality ingredients and ran the still the way it's supposed to be run using an historical recipe.

  But that is what we are about.  Bringing to you historical interpretations of what the first rum would have tasted like and ensuring we give you the highest quality product we can produce.  Now it shows.  We are working on some plans to still improve our rum.  We want to take that 96 points next time and we will do it without aging.  We set out sights to the Gold and we easily made it.  Now we are setting our sights on best of the best.  You can rest assured we will make that too.  And best of all, it's all made right here in the Good old USA. Hey, better yet, It's Virginia made in the heart of America's most historical birth place.  Thank you for your support.