Panama City Beach Spiced Rum

Panama City Beach Spiced Rum is a Florida-made spiced rum distilled at Timber Creek Distillery in Crestview, on the Florida Panhandle. It is the tiki rum: an unfiltered, copper pot-still molasses rum with natural spice that has enough body to anchor a Mai Tai, a Zombie, or a punch bowl for the whole condo.

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 Panama City Beach: Under two hours northwest

The rum that stands up to tiki

Panama City Beach is the Panhandle’s party beach, and its native drink is the tall, fruit-heavy, crushed-ice tiki cocktail. Tiki drinks punish weak rum. A Mai Tai has orgeat, curacao, and lime all pulling in different directions, and a Zombie has three kinds of juice, falernum, and grenadine on top of that. An industrial spiced rum, which is neutral spirit plus sugar plus artificial flavor, vanishes. Panama City Beach Spiced Rum starts from Timber Creek’s Florida Rum, double-distilled from food-grade molasses in a copper pot still, then takes a natural spice infusion and goes to the bottle unfiltered. That molasses body is what keeps the rum tasting like rum under a pile of pineapple.

What does Panama City Beach Spiced Rum taste like?

Panama City Beach 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. 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.

Tiki and punch bowl builds

Mai Tai: Spiced rum, lime, orgeat, and orange curacao, shaken and poured over crushed ice with a mint sprig. The spice infusion adds the warmth a Mai Tai usually borrows from an aged rum.

Zombie Punch: The big one. Two rums, lime, falernum, grenadine, bitters, and a whisper of absinthe over pebble ice in a tiki mug.

Condo punch bowl (serves 10): 15 oz Panama City Beach Spiced Rum, 20 oz pineapple juice, 10 oz orange juice, 5 oz fresh lime juice, 5 oz simple syrup, a few dashes of Angostura bitters. Stir over a block of ice and grate nutmeg on top.

Painkiller: Pineapple, orange, coconut cream, nutmeg. Built for a beach chair.

What makes this different from an imported spiced rum

The spiced rum in most PCB beach bars is distilled far away, sweetened, artificially flavored, and relabeled. Panama City Beach Spiced Rum is made under two hours away from a base rum you can taste unspiced at the same distillery, with no artificial flavoring and no sugar beyond what the molasses base contributes. See What Is Rum? for how the categories differ.

Where to buy Panama City Beach Spiced Rum

Panama City Beach Spiced Rum is available at select retailers in the Panama City Beach area and at the distillery in Crestview. Our Panama City Beach guide covers the beach side of a trip.

Bring the group to the farm

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, and the farm hosts groups for tours and tastings. Book a Distillery Tour and Tasting for the whole crew.