30A Spiced Rum

30A Spiced Rum is a Florida-made spiced rum distilled at Timber Creek Distillery in Crestview, about an hour north of Seaside. It is a sunset spirit: unfiltered molasses rum with a natural spice infusion, built for the porch hour after the beach chairs come in, when the drink is something short over one big cube rather than a tall tropical mixer.

Quick Facts

• Style: Spiced rum, 80 proof (40% ABV), 750 ml
• Base: Florida Rum, distilled from food-grade Gulf Coast molasses
• Still: Copper pot still, double-distilled
• Spice: Natural spice infusion, no artificial flavoring
• Filtration: Unfiltered
• Made in: Crestview, Florida, on a 240-acre family farm
• Distance from 30A: About an hour from Seaside

A spiced rum for the 30A porch hour

The towns along Scenic Highway 30A, from Seaside and WaterColor to Grayton Beach and Rosemary Beach, are built around porches, and the porch hour is the one part of the day that is not about the beach. It is a slow drink, watched sunset, and conversation. Most spiced rums are made for cola and nothing else: an industrial column-still base sweetened and dosed with artificial spice so it can survive being buried in soda. 30A Spiced Rum starts from an actual rum. The base is Timber Creek’s Florida Rum, double-distilled from food-grade molasses in a copper pot still, and the spice is infused naturally and bottled unfiltered. That gives it enough character to drink neat or over ice, which is where a porch drink lives.

What does 30A Spiced Rum taste like?

30A Spiced Rum is warm, layered, and moderately sweet, with real molasses character under the spice.

Nose

Warm spice aromatics lead, layered rather than single-note, over the rum’s natural molasses sweetness and a subtle vanilla warmth from the base.

Palate

Smooth entry with the molasses base as a sweet foundation. Spice builds through the mid-palate without turning aggressive. Because the rum is unfiltered and made from food-grade molasses rather than blackstrap, it carries more character than industrial spiced rums at the same proof.

Finish

Warm and moderately long. Spice and light oak warmth linger, and the finish stays clean rather than sugary.

Short pours for the end of the day

Spiced Rum Old Fashioned: 2 oz 30A Spiced Rum, a bar spoon of demerara syrup, two dashes of Angostura bitters, stirred over one large cube with an orange peel. The spice infusion does the work an aromatic bitters usually has to do alone.

Rum and tonic, orange peel: 2 oz spiced rum, tonic, expressed orange peel. Lighter than a rum and cola and better with the sun still up.

Neat or on one cube: The unfiltered base and natural spice are both perceptible without dilution. Give it five minutes on the ice.

Painkiller, if the porch turns into a party: Pineapple, orange, and coconut cream over crushed ice, nutmeg on top.

What makes this different from an imported spiced rum

Most spiced rum sold on the Panhandle is distilled thousands of miles away, sweetened, flavored, and relabeled for the American market. 30A Spiced Rum is made about an hour from the coast where it sells, from a base rum you can taste unspiced at the same distillery. The spice character and the production are both transparent. For the full picture of how the base is made, read how rum is made.

Where to buy 30A Spiced Rum

30A Spiced Rum is available at select retailers along the 30A corridor and at the distillery in Crestview. Our guide to 30A activities covers the drive and the rest of the day.

Taste the whole rum lineup

The Crestview tasting room pours the clear Florida Rum, the Apple Pie Rum, the Coffee Rum, and the Barrel Aged Rum beside the spiced expressions. Book a Distillery Tour and Tasting for a half day off the beach.