Post #720620 by freddiefreelance on Fri, Jun 20, 2014 1:35 PM

Sweet Sorghum is a grain/grass grown throughout the South & Midwest that is pressed & boiled into a sweet syrup often called Sorghum Molasses that was a staple of Southern cooking up until the 1950s. Several craft distillers have recently rediscovered this old American ingredient and begun using it to make small batch Sorghum "Rum" (There's some disagreement as to whether a distillate made from a non-Sugar Cane grass is still rum):

• Indiana's Colglazier & Hobson Distilling Company's Sorgrhum
• North Carolina's Petzold Distilleries LLC's Carolina Original Spiced Sorghum Rum
• Kentucky's Wilderness Trace Distillery's Harvest Rum
• Iowa's Mississippi River Distilling Company's Dry Dock Sorghrum
• Wisconsin's Old Sugar Distillery's Queen Jennie Sorghum Whiskey
• Massachusetts’ KyMar Farm Distillery's Schoharie Shine Sorghum Spirit
• Tennessee's Prichard's Distillery's Premium Molasses Tennessee Gold Rum (no longer for sale due to issues with being called a rum when made from Sorghum)

Some of these are aged in old Bourbon barrels, some in new wood, and some seem to be raw white spirits.

I was going to try to get some Cousins to pick me up either some Sorgrhum or Harvest Rum and was wondering if anyone had tasted any and could give an opinion before I sent distant relatives running.