An Exclusive Look Behind the Bottle
The Rumhuys Distillery Tour & Tasting gives you access that our regular bar guests don’t get — a guided walk through the production area where our rums are blended, bottled and prepared for release. This is not a staged visitor experience. It is the actual working space.
After the production area, you return to the blending bar for a guided tasting of all five house blends — each one explained in the context of what you’ve just seen.
The Production Area — Exclusive Access
Most visitors to Rumhuys see the bar. On this tour, you go further. The production area is where the actual work of blending happens — where base spirits are received, tested and measured, where flavour components are prepared and combined, and where finished batches are assessed before bottling.
- Spirit reception and storage — where our base agricultural rum arrives
- The flavouring lab — natural spices, dried fruits and Caribbean botanicals are prepared and macerated here
- The blending station — where the rum master works with precision scales and testing vessels
- Bottling and sealing — finished blends are bottled, corked, wax-sealed and labelled by hand
- Quality control — how each batch is tasted against a reference standard
The Five Blends — Guided Tasting
After the production tour, you take your seat at the blending bar. Five pours. Five stories from Sint Maarten.
The production area is not normally open to the public. Access is limited to tour groups of no more than 12 guests at a time to preserve the working environment and the integrity of open batches. This is a genuine behind-the-scenes experience — not a replica or a recreation.
Frequently Asked Questions
You get a guided walk through the working production area — the spirit storage, flavouring lab, blending station, bottling area, and quality control process. This area is not open during regular bar service. Access is limited to tour groups of 12 or fewer to preserve the working environment.
Yes. The tour runs daily when cruise ships are in port and fits comfortably within a 2–3 hour port stop. Rumhuys is a 5-minute walk from the cruise terminal in Philipsburg — no transport needed.
Yes — this is our most popular combination. The tour gives you the context; the workshop lets you apply it. Start with the production tour and tasting, then move straight into blending your own rum. Total time around 2 hours. Mention it when booking and we will schedule both back to back.
The production area tour is limited to 12 guests per session to preserve the working environment. For larger groups, we run consecutive sessions. Contact us when booking and we will arrange accordingly.
Advance booking is strongly recommended for the production tour due to the 12-person limit. Walk-ins are accommodated when space allows, but the tour fills quickly on busy port days. Book at least 24 hours ahead to guarantee your session.
Rhum agricole is rum made from fresh sugarcane juice rather than molasses. It produces a more aromatic, complex spirit that expresses the terroir of the cane it comes from. All Rumhuys base spirits are agricultural rum. The production tour explains exactly why this matters — and you taste the proof afterwards.