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Dead Reckoning ‘The Black Pit’ – September 2024

Welcome back to the Caribbean! Not just any Caribbean rum - a single origin rum from the Diamond Distillery in Guyana, blended from spirit out of 3 different working museum piece wooden stills (the only wooden stills still existing) - and then…

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Red Mill Rum Gold Rum – August 2024

A famous 1930’s rum Brand resurrected and reimagined by no less than the great-grandson of the original distiller and EXCLUSIVE to the Tribe – The Red Mill Rum Gold Rum! Now what do you get if you take a 6th generation spirit wholesaler…

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Lord Byron Birthday Special – July 2024

Well from our 4th birthday (Happy Birthday to us!) to the 50th birthday of one of Australia’s favourite producers of some seriously fantastic rum – Brian Retsall of Lord Byron. Yep, Brian turns 50 this month and to celebrate such a milestone,…

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Rhum J.M Terroir Volcanique – June 2024

From the home of Rhum Agricole and for the first time in Australia especially for the Rum Tribe! A brand new Caribbean rum from legendary Martinique producer Rhum J.M – The Terroir Volcanique. Whilst we’ve jumped into sugar-cane juice…

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Karu Distilling Specialty Cask #1 ‘Rumbledore’ – May 2024

To say we’ve been looking forward to May’s ‘Rum of the Month’ for over a year now is a bit of an understatement! Our incredible Karu/Rum Tribe collaboration, code named ‘RUMBLEDORE!’ has finally been bottled and is ready for the…

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Dead Reckoning Three Continent Blend (TCB)

Is this new Dead Reckoning Rum a 3 continent indy rum bottling or a science project? Well both! Follow along with us for the Dead Reckoning Three Continent Blend! Rum sourced from 3 countries (Guyana, Vietnam, South Africa) The Guyanese…

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Mad Monkey Barossa Cask – March 2024

Well it’s been a long time in the making, but we’ve finally done it! A RUM TRIBE EXCLUSIVE collaboration with those South Aussie soulsters of sublimation, the Adelaide angels of extraction, prehensile purveyors of PURE SINGLE RUM…has…

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Hellfire Rum – February 2024

This month it is all about the Hellfire! Hellfire Bluff Distillery is a Tasmanian family-run farm-to-bottle producer recognised internationally for their own-grown potato vodka. In the last few years, they have been branching out and we’re…

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Dead Reckoning South Pacific – January 2024

Well welcome to 2024! Happy New Year Tribe and we are off and racing with a huge EXCLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN RELEASE to bring in the new year! The Dead Reckoning South Pacific A ten-year-old, muscat cask, 100% tropically aged, single blended rum…

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Firkin Rum First Edition Single Cask – December 2023

The World First Release of the very FIRST Firkin RUM! Now Firkin are absolute LEGENDS in the spirits industry with their Head Honcho, Mike Collings having over 50 years of high-end spirit credentials up his proverbial (he’s the guy that…

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Requiem SS Admella – November 2023

Four words to excite any rum lover – ‘Tin Shed Distilling Requiem’! If you like your rums to have character and flavour, without what is often referred to as a high ester flavour profile, then the Requiem SS Admella from Tin Shed Distilling…

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Killik Virgin American Oak – October 2023

With October being an ‘ode to funk’…our favourite Australian (actually Victorian) hogo heads have delivered an EXCLUSIVE KILLIK/ RUM TRIBE collaboration – The Killik Virgin American Oak! This is the very first Virgin Oak maturation…

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Hotel Lobby Rum ‘Pearl White’ + Ube Cream Liqueur – September 2026August 25, 2026 - 3:43 pm
Rum Tribe… this month we’re doing something we’ve never done before — and it’s all thanks to the Philippines absolutely blowing the doors off Rumolution 2026. Two bottles. Two completely different personalities. One shared origin story. And together, they were the runaway smash hits of both Sydney and Brisbane — selling out before some festival‑goers […]
Mad Monkey Botrytis – August 2026July 23, 2026 - 9:28 pm
MAD MONKEY BOTRYTIS – WILD, RARE & ABSOLUTELY UNMISSABLE Tribe… this month we’re unleashing something truly special. Something wild. Something decadent. Something that captures Adelaide’s soul in a bottle. Introducing Mad Monkey Botrytis – a Rum Tribe exclusive, and a strictly limited release crafted with nothing but wild yeast, patience, and pure Mad Monkey chaos. […]
Dead Reckoning Antigua 7 Year Old – July 2026June 25, 2026 - 9:29 am
Back to Antigua – back to the place where Dead Reckoning truly began. Picture Justin Boseley stepping off a superyacht after fourteen long days at sea, sunburnt, salt‑stung, exhausted… and then seeing it: a bar stacked high with the Caribbean’s finest rum. That first pour wasn’t just a drink. It was a moment. A spark. […]
Lord Byron Double Wood Blonde Cask + Beer – June 2026May 26, 2026 - 2:15 pm
Get ready for EXCLUSIVE two-way barrel magic – A rum shaped by a beer, then beer shaped the rum! This is a true flavour feedback loop and perfect flavour symmetry with both products sharing the same DNA: vanilla, oak, spice, tropical fruit, and warming alcohols echo across the pairing in seamless harmony. Our old friends […]
Calibre Spirit Australian Rum – May 2026April 24, 2026 - 4:26 pm
There is nothing more special than watching passion and commitment manifest into a sensational product from people you know. In this case, a Single Cask, Single Origin rum made to the ‘Rhum Batterie’ tradition – The Calibre Spirit Australian Rum! It was award winning at 4 years old, and EXCLUSIVE to the Tribe we have […]

Dead Reckoning ‘The Black Pit’ – September 2024

Red Mill Rum Gold Rum – August 2024

Lord Byron Birthday Special – July 2024

Rhum J.M Terroir Volcanique – June 2024

Karu Distilling Specialty Cask #1 ‘Rumbledore’ – May 2024

Dead Reckoning Three Continent Blend (TCB)

Mad Monkey Barossa Cask – March 2024

Hellfire Rum – February 2024

Dead Reckoning South Pacific – January 2024

Firkin Rum First Edition Single Cask – December 2023

Requiem SS Admella – November 2023

Killik Virgin American Oak – October 2023

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