Today on In Depth With... we have the seemingly tireless & very good friend of the show Arron Smallman.Today we talk about Arron's career to date & his latest project called "Let's Push Things Forward" which is going to tackle some of the trickier issues surrounding hospitality post-COVID.

Today we are joined by the magnificent Peter Thornton who currently looks after Black Tears Cuban Spiced Rum on behalf of The Island Rum Company.In this part we talk some more about spiced rum & how COVID is going to impact the industry going forward.

Today we are joined by the magnificent Peter Thornton who currently looks after Black Tears Cuban Spiced Rum on behalf of The Island Rum Company.In this part we talk about Peter's career to date & all things spiced rum.

We have a great chat with Tom Bartram. One of the most intelligent people we know when it comes to rum & agave spirits.Today we discuss all things COVID related & how the industry will look once it reopens.

We have a great chat with Tom Bartram. One of the most intelligent people we know when it comes to rum & agave spirits.Today we discuss Tom's background within the industry, geographical indications & some similarities between agave spirits & rum.

Today we talk about all things to do with Geographical Indications or G.I's as they are referred to, including discussing the recent debate surrounding the Barbados G.I.We also discuss Martinique's A.O.C & Jamaica's G.I.

Part 2 of our in depth conversation with Cleo Farman, creator of Diablesse Rum & possibly the most enthusiastic person we've ever met.In this part we talk about all things rum, COVID, Smugglers Cove & bars in general.

Part 1 of our in depth conversation with Cleo Farman, creator of Diablesse Rum & possibly the most enthusiastic person we've ever met.In this part we talk about how Cleo went about creating her rum & a little bit of her history within the industry.

On this Rumdamentals episode we talk about all things post distillation including; filtration, additives & spicing.We discuss how all these things can be used by rum producers to mask poorly made products & can get away with not disclosing additions on bottles.

Part 3 of our in depth conversation with Dave Marsland, creator of Drinks Enthusiast, Manchester Rum Festival, UK Brand Ambassador for Chairman's Reserve & all round nice guy.In this part we talk about rum as a category, including some of the positives & negatives as well as what Smugglers Cove will have to offer once reopen.

Part 2 of our in depth conversation with Dave Marsland, creator of Drinks Enthusiast, Manchester Rum Festival, UK Brand Ambassador for Chairman's Reserve & all round nice guy.In this part we talk about Manchester Rum Festival, tasty treats coming out of Chairman's Reserve & touch on a few things we've been enjoying recently.

Part 1 of our in depth conversation with Dave Marsland, creator of Drinks Enthusiast, Manchester Rum Festival, UK Brand Ambassador for Chairman's Reserve & all round nice guy.In this part we talk about Dave's career to date.

On this Rumdamentals episode we discuss the role of barrel ageing in rum production.Topics include; the effect barrels have on rum, the role environment plays in the ageing process & how using different barrels can create different results.

Episode 3 of our rumdamentals series, today we look at the basics of distillation, focusing specifically on continuous or column distillation.We pick up the process again from episode 1, with our molasses wash. All the way through to just before the ageing process.

Episode 2 of our rumdamentals series, today we look at the basics of distillation, focusing specifically on batch or pot distillation.We pick up the process from episode 1, with our molasses wash. All the way through to just before the ageing process.

The first of our new series on rum fundamentals, or rumdamentals as we like to call them!This time we focus on the beginning of rum production; sugarcane & fermentation.We discuss the impact of sugarcane & yeast on flavour of the final product. As well as how these can be used to produce specific styles of rum.Please follow our Instagram: here

During this tough time we talk through some of our desert island rums.The full list includes:Velier 70th Anniversary Caroni 1996 21 YearWorthy Park Single Estate Reserve 57%Hampden Estate OverproofEl Dorado Rare Collection Enmore 1993Pussers Gunpowder ProofHabitation Velier Forsyths WP 502Clairin SajousSt Lucia Distillers 1931 5th Edition

On this week's episode, we discuss the most expensive rum we've tried, lots of Daiquiris & the best pound for pound rums out there at the moment.Some of our best pound for pound quarantine rums:Mount Gay EclipseAppleton Signature BlendSmith & CrossWray & NephewDoorly's XO.

Introducing the first of (hopefully) many, of our Just Rum With It podcasts.Today we briefly discuss rum history & some rum events that are coming up, as well as having a few drinks ourselves.