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Boutique rum brand opens distillery and bar under the railway lines in Salford
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDown a backstreet in Salford, just under the railway lines, is not the first place you’d expect to discover a rum distillery.
But the founders of the Dirty Old Town Distillery have just set up shop here in a railway arch near Blackfriars which will double as both their HQ, rum laboratory and, in time, a bar too.
Tommy Gaughan and James Harrison met at school in Leigh, and after seeing a gap in the market, launched their first product in 2018, a spiced rum under the brand The Salford Rum Company.
And despite a pandemic in the middle, the pair had their best year yet last year, selling a staggering 30,000 bottles in the UK, while their rum is now stocked in both Co-op and Morrisons stores too. “It was a kind of drunken idea one Christmas,” Tommy told the Manchester Evening News. “We saw the gin market and what was going on there, lots of innovation, and we just noticed, as spiced rum drinkers, that there was kind of no innovation in rum, and we wondered why, so we decided to launch our own brand.” The making of the rum is also informed by where they make it, and the history of the area, harking back to the days when the docks of Salford were a vital point on the route spices took from the Caribbean to the rest of the world. “Salford Rum was born because we’re based in Salford, but also because of the history and heritage of Salford,” Gaughan, who has a background and food and drink product development, went on. “Back in the early 1900s, you would have rum coming in through the docks from around the world and from the Caribbean, spices as well, and we use them to inspire our spiced rums.
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