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Casks of rum inside the Siesta Key Rum distillery.Casks of rum inside the Siesta Key Rum distillery.The handcrafted bar at the Siesta Key Rum tasting room, custom built by founder Troy Roberts father.Award-winning rum produced by Drum Circle Distilling.Bottled rum ready for national distribution.Bottled Siesta Key Spiced Rum.
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Join us with chef John Horne, of the Sarasota-Manatee Originals, as we take a field trip to the locally owned and operated Siesta Key Rum distillery. Then head back in the kitchen at the
USF Sarasota-Manatee Culinary Innovation Lab as chef Horne prepares a spiced rum cake with rum syrup. Drum Circle Distilling produces and bottles small batch craft Siesta Key Rum at their local Sarasota distillery. The company was founded by local Troy Roberts in 2007, and now distributes rum to retailers across the country.
Siesta Key Rum in hand-crafted with high-quality ingredients that are locally sourced in Florida.
Molasses made from Florida grown sugarcane is poured into the mash tanks for clarification. The purified molasses is then moved to the fermentation tanks. Water and a specialty yeast are added to the fermentation tanks, which transforms the sugars of the molasses. The rum is then separated from the mixture by the copper pot still. In the still, the fermented molasses is heated at high temperatures to allow the alcohol to evaporate into the still system. The system releases the finished rum into barrels to age before it is bottled by hand on-site at the distillery.
The reaction of the copper still and natural ingredients produce the smooth, chemical-free taste that has won numerous international awards.
The Siesta Key Rum product line includes a Gold, Silver and Spiced rum, and a limited edition Distiller's Reserve. A toasted coconut spiced rum is scheduled for release later this year.
In collaboration with local craft beer brewers, Siesta Key Rum also produces a Beer Barrel Finish spiced rum. This rum is aged in barrels previously used to produce craft brews to give the rum a unique flavor.
The Drum Circle Distilling tasting room and gift shop are open to the public for sampling and tours.
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Siesta Key Rum founder talks about how he'll get around Florida alcohol regulations - Bradenton.com
Troy Roberts, the founder and CEO of Drum Circle Distilling, which produces Siesta Key Rum, talks about how he's going to use different artist labels to get around state regulations that don't allow distilleries to sell many bottles directly to consumers. Video by Kate Irby.
Siesta Key Rum
Siesta Key, sunset and the Drum Circle became key ingredients for a business idea. So much so that Troy Roberts named his company after them. And like that, Siesta Key Rum was born.