Smitty’s Apple Pie Rum

Smitty’s Apple Pie Rum: Dessert, Distilled

Smitty’s Apple Pie Rum starts the way every great Florida rum should: with 100% natural Florida limestone spring water and Gulf Coast-grown sugarcane. That smooth Florida rum is the foundation, and on top of it the distiller builds flavor with an award-winning apple pie recipe — rich notes of Madagascar vanilla and bold Saigon cinnamon blended with crisp apple essence. It smells like a slice fresh out of the oven and drinks like one too.

Here’s the twist that sets it apart from the syrupy “apple pie” bottles crowding the shelf: no sugar is added. As the label says, that keeps the rum pure, clean, and true to its roots — all the warmth of the pie, none of the cloying sweetness. The flavor comes from real spice and fruit character layered over genuine Gulf Coast sugarcane rum, not from a sugar dump. Created by Smitty’s and distilled and bottled by Timber Creek Distilling in Crestview, Florida, it’s a small-batch craft take on an American classic.

How to Pour a Slice

The label’s serving suggestions are the right ones. Sip it over ice and let the cinnamon bloom as the cube melts. Mix it into your favorite iced tea for a front-porch cooler with a kick. Or go full dessert and pour it over vanilla ice cream — the Madagascar vanilla in the rum meets the vanilla in the scoop, and suddenly you’ve made the easiest boozy sundae in Florida. Like the whole Smitty’s line, this bottle was commissioned by Chris Smith and Desorae Giles-Smith as a tribute to the heart and soul of Sistrunk Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale — a sweet finish from a neighborhood that knows how to feed people right.