Surf City Surf Rider Rum

Surf Rider is the silver rum from Surf City Still Works, Huntington Beach's first craft distillery, founded around 2018 by husband-and-wife partners Josh and Elena Kornoff in a business park off Gothard Street a short drive from the pier. Josh spent fifteen years as a Hollywood special-effects supervisor before starting a drone company and then the distillery; Elena came from beer and wine sales and logistics, and the two built Surf City around the town's surf-and-oilfield identity, with a tasting room and restaurant added behind the stills in 2020. Surf Rider is distilled from Jamaican sugar cane and bottled unaged and clear at 42.5% ABV (85 proof) in a 750ml bottle, a touch above the standard 80 proof so it holds up in a mixed drink. The distillery describes its flavor as tropical fruit across the board: banana, pineapple, papaya, mango and coconut, the kind of ester-driven character you expect from a cane-based white rum rather than a neutral mixing rum. It launched at a suggested $30 in select markets. Use it where a white rum belongs, in a daiquiri, a mojito or a rum punch, where the fruit notes do real work.

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