Spice Up Your Festive Drinks with This Trio of Rum Tipples

Long nights getting your weary winter spirits down? Forget herbal infusions and hot soaks – come January only the hard stuff can stiffen our emotional spines. Enter Wester Spirits Co., a new Glasgow-based player on the mixology scene. When the fire is crackling and the cosy socks are calling, there’s something about the deep, mahogany hue and uplifting, zesty kick of this rum that feels just right.

Wester – the passion project of two Scottish school friends – is defiantly bucking the 2017 trend for craft gins and whiskies with its spiced rum. Distilled in small batches in Perthshire using large copper pot stills for optimum full body, this rum is Scottish born-and-bred, and takes its name from Glasgow’s Wester Sugar House Company to honour the city’s long-standing penchant for sugar-cane spirits.

Impressed by both Wester’s strong artisanal values and richness in flavour, we asked Zander Macgregor and Allan Nairn to come up with three recipes to show off the rum’s signature balance of warm Caribbean spices, citrus zest and vanilla, and revamp our festive drinks list. And boy, have they delivered. In a season dogged by over-sweet punches and sour mulled wines, these three cocktails will help make your party the suavest in town.