NOT ALL RUMS ARE CREATED EQUAL.
Created on the banks of Demerara, our smooth and uniquely complex El Dorado aged rums represent over 300 years of Caribbean rum crafting. Faithfully continuing to use our original wooden heritage stills, we are masters in skilfully coaxing out rich & diverse characters from within the spirit. We are patient. Very patient.  Allowing both time and our unique Demerara climate to take their course, we lay down our oak barrels for decades at a time to imbue El Dorado with unsurpassed dimension and depth. Only when ripe with age are these precious rums then artfully blended, revealing their ‘Soul’ for you to savour and enjoy.

OUR HISTORY
The Demerara region of Guyana has been steeped in the history of sugar and rum production since the 17th century. A hundred years later over 300 sugar estates had their own distillery producing their own signature rums. Through the centuries these estates and distilleries have been amalgamated, but these important marques and the original stills were preserved.

Today, Demerara Distillers operates the last remaining distillery in Guyana at Plantation Diamond on the East bank of the Demerara River. Here they have consolidated all the old original stills, marques and traditional skills which make Demerara Rum so distinctive.

With its 9 different stills, no other rum distillery in the world offers such a variety and range of over twenty different styles of rum.

THE WOODEN COFFEY STILL
The Wooden Continuous Coffey or EHP Wooden Still is the last fully working example of its kind in the world today. It is similar, if not identical, to the very first continuous still constructed and patented by an Irish excise officer, Aeneas Coffey in 1832, after whom the Still was named.

This Still is the original and last surviving one from the Enmore Sugar Estate founded nearly 200 years ago by Edward Henry Porter. 

THE WOODEN POT STILLS
Demerara Distillers benefits from being able to operate the last two original Wooden Pot Stills (one Single and one Double) in the world. Over 250 years old, and originally used to produce the Demerara Navy Rums in the past, they are nowadays often referred to by their old names of Demerara Vat Stills.

The Double Wooden Pot Still originated from the Port Mourant Estate, founded in 1732, and was later moved first to Uitvlugt Estate and then, in 2000, to Diamond Estate. In the same way the original Single Wooden Pot Still was moved from its original home at Versailles on the west bank of the Demerara River, via Enmore and Uitvlugt to its present home at Diamond.

THE FRENCH SAVALLE STILL
Demerara Distillers continues to use the original four-column metal French Savalle Still inherited from the 18th century Uitvlugt Estate on the west coast of Demerara county.

The modern version of this still is versatile enough to produce nine completely different types (marks) of rum ranging from the very light through to heavy bodied rums.

Website: www.theeldoradorum.com