Distill a Bottle of Rum on mini copper stills

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Earliest Date Available: November 4, 2026This experience is in high demand. Book now to lock in the next available date.

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Location

Edinburgh

Duration

3 hours

Group size

Max 3 guests

Language

English

Location

Edinburgh

Duration

3 hours

Group size

Max 3 guests

Language

English

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US$127.97 per guest

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Earliest Date Available: November 4, 2026This experience is in high demand. Book now to lock in the next available date.

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Food for HappinessFor every guest in your booking, we donate 10 meals to children around the world

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This rum distilling experience is a very hands on, bespoke, personal and very knowledgeable workshop like no other in the country. Upon entry to the building you will be warmly greeted by your host upstairs at the main entrance. You shall then be guided to our bespoke micro distillery and once settled you are given a welcome rum and mixer followed by a brief outline of the running of the experience and history of the distillery. Next comes a short history of rums from around the world and a rum tasting section to help you come up with a rum recipe to distill your bottle of rum. Guests then pick a total of 6-10 ingredients from our botanical library to help them create and distill their own rum bottle. While distillation takes place, guests enjoy a rum cocktail. When distillation finishes, guest bottle their rum, add a label with their chosen rum name and finally wax seal their bottle to take away with them.

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Welcome rum and mixer, Rum Samples, Rum Cocktail then Distill your own 500ml(50cl) bottle of rum to take home

You will be welcomed to a bespoke micro distillery room where you will receive a rum and mixer on arrival. Guests will be allowed to settle in with a run through of the outline of the class. Each guest will then try three different rum tasting samples and then design their own bespoke rum recipe from the available ingredients. Guests will then use an individual mini copper still to distill their chosen ingredients to produce a 500ml (50cl) bottle of rum to take home with them. While their rum is distilling they will enjoy a cocktail and once their rum has been distilled, they will taste their newly made rum before bottling, labelling, naming and wax sealing their end product to take away with them.

Meeting Point

The Cumberland Bar, Cumberland Street, Edinburgh Scotland, United Kingdom, GB, EH3 6RT

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The Rum School is situated in a private basement room downstairs at the 'Cumberland Bar' in Edinburgh. Please enter the bar through the front door entrance where your host will welcome for your rum experience.

End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

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roymeikleOctober 2026 • TripAdvisor

Moonshiners...

We went during Storm Boelo and arrived a bit on the wet side. Greeted by Gary and given a warm welcome and a bit of chat. Gary immediately took down to his lab (no white lab coats though !!). The whole experience was tremendous and our group really enjoyed the experience. Gary combined his extensive knowledge with some fun chat and we all quickly joined in to make a great atmosphere. The actual distillation process was relatively simple (with our head distiller) and you are given a massive selec...read more

Trip68908October 2026 • TripAdvisor

Great experience

Great experience, fab hosting. We both thoroughly enjoyed.

Response from ViatorOctober 15, 2026

Many thanks for the review, great meeting you both. Enjoy the rum once opened:)

douglaslO6074QZSeptember 2026 • TripAdvisor

Copper Sill To Bottle

Received the Rum Experience as a birthday gift from my daughter and attended it with my son. It was a brilliant rum making experience from copper still to bottle. The host and owner Gary was really good and informative. It was a very nice and casual atmosphere. I would fully recommend this experience especially to anyone interested in making your own bottle of rum. The bonus was it tasted great. Book and enjoy. Thank you Gary.

nmealeySeptember 2026 • TripAdvisor

Fantastic day, great experience.

Fantastic visit to Sip Antics. Gary was funnan knowledgeable. Second time we've done this experience, and I'll definitely be back.

Sightseer823967August 2026 • TripAdvisor

Great rum making experience

Absolutely brilliant experience, Gary was an amazing host, very knowledgeable but also with a great sense of humour! Booked as surprise for husbands birthday and had to change original date due to illness and Gary was great with rearranging this. Everything on the day was just perfect, loved tasting the wee samples, but the icing on the cake was coming home with our very own rum that we made ourselves ( with Gary’s help!!) Would definitely return.