Boyd & Blair Silver Rum

Boyd & Blair Silver is a potato-vodka distillery's rum, and it's made with the same obsessiveness. Barry Young — a pharmacist by training who founded Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries in 2008 in a former glassworks in Glenshaw, outside Pittsburgh — built his reputation on a potato vodka Wine Enthusiast said drinks almost like a white rum, so a real rum was a natural step. Silver is distilled from molasses in small batches on the distillery's 1,200-liter copper hybrid still, the same pot that makes the vodka, with only the heart of each run kept, and bottled clear at 40% ABV. Expect a clean nose of fresh sugarcane and light molasses with a faint grassy note, opening into a smooth, rounded palate with gentle cane sweetness, a touch of vanilla, and the plush texture the Boyd & Blair stills are known for, finishing crisp and clean with no burn. Honest note: this is a clean, American craft white rum built for mixing — not a funky Jamaican pot still or a grassy agricole — and it comes from a distillery whose reputation rests on doing simple things very well. For a Daiquiri that lets the lime speak, a Mojito, a Piña Colada, or a rum and soda, it's Pennsylvania's contribution to the craft rum shelf, from the makers of one of America's best-rated potato vodkas. Gluten-free, small-batch, and proudly local.

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