Rivers Rum Distillery

When you drive into Rivers Rum distillery you see  it is on a large piece of land. There is a sugar cane field on one side of the road  and old stone buildings on the other. You can see an old water wheel, that was imported from London, powering the sugar cane press. The wheel is at least two stories high. As you progress you can smell the scent of molasses and fermenting rum. The scent really hits you when you get out of your car.

When you start the tour you walk a small part of the property and arrive at the water wheel and sugar press. The water wheel lets off a spray of water, into the air- sometimes you can see a rainbow.

There is a huge pile of the squeezed sugar cane that they later burn, laying off to the side of the water wheel. In the next area of the tour, we go into a room they burn the sugar cane remains to evaporate the water to get a higher sugar concentration. Then the rum sits in large concrete tanks to ferment.

The next part of the tour explains how the evaporation and condensation makes the rum stronger to about 75-85% alcohol (for local consumption) and 69% alcohol to take home. When the tour is over you can taste all there rum -- it its very strong and feels like fire in your neck (so I have been told).

I really like Rivers Rum Distillery an if you find yourself in Grenada you should go. But if you are on a cruise ship don't go. You won't  have time to get there an back and won't have time to visit me

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