The Rumelier was back in Florida for a quick visit to the central area of the State. After he made a stopover in Coral Gables he and the small group of Rum XP's travelled up by car for the long drive up and across the State of Florida. This is an area The Rumelier had not spent much time in, so the drive up was interesting even though the terrain was very flat.

After a quick pit-stop for lunch the small group rendezvoused at the Drum Circle Distillery in Sarasota, on Florida's beautiful west coast.

The small group of Rum XP's found themselves in a small industrial estate on the outskirts of town, not usually where you would find a rum distillery. This was not your normal sprawling distillery like those located all over the Caribbean Islands, this was a recently built small artisan distillery, with all modern equipment.

Once inside the unassuming building the group was greeted by partners in the distillery Troy Roberts and Tom Clarke. While waiting for everyone to arrive the group began snapping away with their cameras which were mainly pointed at the brand new, shiny customized Christian Carl copper pot still.

The open warehouse is 6400 square feet in size, where a single room functions as the storage, fermentation, distillation and aging areas, with a seperate area for the bottling and offices.

While one side of the room functions as the production area the opposite side functions as the ever expanding barrel aging area, where numerous barrels of different sizes are seen slowing aging their rum.