Cotton & Reed Distillery

Cotton & Reed Distillery DC's rum distillery and cocktail bar. We distribute our rums in DC, MD, DE, MA, and CT. At the disti
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08/14/2024

What'll it be?

Up next on the Three-Day Weekend Three-Rum Release agenda:⁠⁠QUEEN'S SHARE RUMRum nerds, assemble!Normal people, a brief ...
05/23/2024

Up next on the Three-Day Weekend Three-Rum Release agenda:⁠
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QUEEN'S SHARE RUM

Rum nerds, assemble!

Normal people, a brief primer. What is Queen's Share? Batch distillation generally results in the collection of three different liquids:

1. Heads: The most volatile stuff. Contains a bunch of compounds that are much worse for you than ethanol. We don't let this into our products.

2. Hearts: The bulk of the distillate. Mostly ethanol. When you drink our rum, it's pretty much hearts that we proof down, age, flavor... whatever the case may be.

3. Tails: The heaviest stuff. Contains some ethanol, some nasty compounds, and some of the richest, rummiest, heaviest flavors and oiliest textures.

Queen's Share is the rum term for re-distilling the tails in order to capture the rich flavors and aromas in there, separating them from the undesirable elements of tails. It's kind of the rummiest rum.

After two years in a used bourbon barrel, this Queen's Share Rum is ready to rock at 54.5% Alc. / Vol. She's a sipper, she's a keeper, she's a queen.

Other than the Emu collab with Silver Lyan last year, this is our first ever Queen's Share release. Usually we use this precious juice as a blending ingredient across our other bottlings. If you all like this one, maybe we'll keep it going.

This drops on Sunday May 26, along with Mango and White Gold Rum. Preorder at link in bio.

Up next on the Three-Day Weekend Three-Rum Release agenda:WHITE GOLD RUM It's an amburana barrel-rested 47.5% Alc. / Vol...
05/22/2024

Up next on the Three-Day Weekend Three-Rum Release agenda:

WHITE GOLD RUM

It's an amburana barrel-rested 47.5% Alc. / Vol. stunner that lands halfway between our White Rum and our Gold Rum while somehow being all its own.

Our Gold Rum gets some of its character from about 1% of its blend spending 3+ years in barrels made from an overwhelmingly pleasant-tasting wood called amburana. It's a spicy, vanilla-y, floral hardwood from Brazil that gives spirits a ton of flavor in a brief resting period usually measured in weeks.

To produce White Gold, we rested our White Rum in an Amburana barrel for just two weeks, then bottled it at 47.5% Alc. / Vol. That's it. You will be amazed at how much the Amburana contributes in that brief time.

It retains the light-medium body of our White and its signature fruity-marshmallowy character, but layers on a ton of floral vanilla spice. We hate to keep saying "make it into a daiquiri" but honestly what you should do with this is... make it into a daiquiri. It's delicious.

Dropping this Sunday, May 26. Preorder at link in bio.

First up on our Three-Day Weekend, Three-Rum Release docket: 🥭 MANGO 🥭You know how our Coconut Rum is real good? And you...
05/21/2024

First up on our Three-Day Weekend, Three-Rum Release docket:

🥭 MANGO 🥭

You know how our Coconut Rum is real good? And you know how you wish there were more flavored spirits out there that tasted like real stuff? Well, while you arguably wasted a third of the the opportunity afforded by that genie you found, consider the wish fulfilled.

We make this in much the same way we make the Coconut. We macerate our unaged rum on a startling amount of the best dried mango we can get our hands on for a few days. We add a bit more rum, filter it, and add a touch of sugar. All the color and all the mango flavor come straight form the Mango.

Bottled at 40% Alc. / Vol. Just 240 bottles made.

It has mango's acidity, an undeniable mango flavor, and a pretty cute label. You'll crush it in daiquiris with enthusiasm.

Summer starts Memorial Day Weekend. We're helping it get off on the right foot by dropping three limited release rums:MA...
05/20/2024

Summer starts Memorial Day Weekend. We're helping it get off on the right foot by dropping three limited release rums:

MANGO
WHITE GOLD RUM
QUEEN'S SHARE RUM

The Three-Day Weekend Three-Rum Release Party is this Sunday May 26, with cocktail specials starting at 3 PM. The release party will also be a celebration of our White Rum's Platinum Medal from .

Stay tuned this week for more details on each rum.

Pre-order here: https://www.giftrocker.com/secure/Order/?hash=17cba33d

Want to join our team?? We’re hiring full- and part-time bartenders. The pay is weirdly good, there’s a health plan, the...
05/03/2024

Want to join our team?? We’re hiring full- and part-time bartenders.

The pay is weirdly good, there’s a health plan, there’s a 401(k), we’re doing all that stuff the industry should probably already have been doing for a long time.

Get your resume to [email protected].
Or tag your pal who should get their resume to [email protected].

🎤 Tap tap... 🎤 ahem...Our White Rum just won an unprecedented 🏅PLATINUM MEDAL🏅 at the San Francisco World Spirits Comp...
04/30/2024

🎤 Tap tap... 🎤 ahem...

Our White Rum just won an unprecedented 🏅PLATINUM MEDAL🏅 at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. We've won great accolades in recent years, but this one is genuinely staggering.

SFWSC is called “the Oscars of Booze” for good reason. Its judges are renowned, its medals carry some weight in the trade. When the dozens of judges tally up their blind tasting scores, spirits with average scores above a certain threshold earn Gold, scores in a lower range earn Silver, and so on. Double Gold winners receive not just a Gold-level average, but a Gold-level score from every single taster.

Platinum medal winners are those rare spirits that earn Double Gold for THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS. This means that for three consecutive years, our little DC-made domestic rum has received exceptional ratings from every single judge that tasted it.

This is a testament to the hard work, dedication, and talent of our incredible team. Thank you to every single person who contributed to this!

SFWSC's website is not cooperating with our search for precedents, but we're confident that no Platinum Medal has ever before been awarded to a White Rum category. Cotton & Reed could not find an announcement of any rum previously winning a Platinum medal at SFWSC, but Worthy Park’s Single Estate Reserve at least should have earned the award in the “Extra Aged Rum” category in 2020.

CLOSED SUNDAY 4.28.24Due to a cool private party. You can rent us out too, you know. We host events both large and small...
04/28/2024

CLOSED SUNDAY 4.28.24

Due to a cool private party. You can rent us out too, you know. We host events both large and small. We've even been known to do medium ones on occasion.

runs our bar program, and appears to be thinking about offering truly large-format cocktails. Anybody order 275 gallons...
04/27/2024

runs our bar program, and appears to be thinking about offering truly large-format cocktails. Anybody order 275 gallons of rum punch?

Wondering what's shaking this weekend? The answer, as always, is Daiquiris.
04/26/2024

Wondering what's shaking this weekend? The answer, as always, is Daiquiris.

Last minute gift shoppers, meet last minute product release. Today we drop our Buko Pandan Rum collab with our friends !...
12/22/2023

Last minute gift shoppers, meet last minute product release. Today we drop our Buko Pandan Rum collab with our friends !

Buko = coconut. Pandan = pandan. It’s a classic flavor combo in the Philippines, where our Head Distiller has roots. Pandan’s soft vanilla cake character resonates beautifully with coconut. Its vegetal character drives home the natural, whole-ingredient quality of this rum. Whole pandan leaves, dried organic Philippine coconut flakes, rum, and a touch of sugar are our only ingredients.

We made our first small batch of Buko Pandan Rum in the spring. It sold out in a heartbeat. The Hiraya team got a hold of a few bottles and became the most compelling soloist in the chorus of “How can we get more?” inquirers. We’ve been tweaking our process and working on this release ever since.

Bottles are available at Hiraya, at our place, and through our website for shipping to 40+ states.

Address

1330 5th Street NE
Washington D.C., DC
20002

Opening Hours

Monday 4pm - 12am
Tuesday 4pm - 12am
Wednesday 4pm - 12am
Thursday 4pm - 12am
Friday 4pm - 2am
Saturday 12pm - 2am
Sunday 12pm - 10pm

Telephone

+12025442805

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