Rum and the Environment Awards 2020
Rum and the Environment
Protecting the environment is everyone’s responsibility. Rum producers, cane growers, sugarcane mills, distributors, retailers, mixologists, brand ambassadors and consumers all have the power to make or to influence change.
Earlier this year we called on our readers to nominate companies or individuals who are doing a great job running their businesses in an environmentally-friendly way. The response was overwhelming, we had a hard time narrowing down the nominees to the four winners showcased in the following pages.
Our goal is for this to be an on-going tradition, designed to recognize environmental excellence in the rum industry, so please continue to send in your nominations.
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Legado Distillery
Category :
DISTILLERY - Organic Certified
Country : Paraguay
Legado Distillery produces distilled spirits using sugarcane processed at the oldest certified-organic sugar mill in the world.The distillery is also 100% energy self-sufficient, using leftover bagasse as fuel for boilers and capturing/treating 100% of their waste water. The remaining co-products from processing, fermentation and distillation are then mixed and used as fertilizer for future sugarcane crops.
www.legadodistillery.com
Legado Distillery2
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Abelha Cachaça
Category :
DISTILLERY - Organic Certified
Country : U.S.A.
Abelha Cachaça is the first cachaça to earn this award, thanks to their dedication and commitment to quality. They source organic certified sugarcane and then ferment it and distill it using small 800 liter copper pot stills (“abelha” means “honey bee” in Portuguese). The distillery actively promotes a collective organization of organic agriculture, encouraging farmers to become individually-certified organic.
www.abelhacachaca.com
Abehlha Cachaca
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Bacardi
Category :
Packaging - Plastic-Free
(From Danimer Scientific)
Country : Global
Consumers are demanding stronger “green” attitudes from producers across the world. Bacardi is answering the call by planning to remove 80 million plastic bottles per year from their portfolio. The new bottles will be made using plant-based polymers developed by Danimer Scientific. A large market for environmentally-friendly, alternative bottles will invariably result in more research and additional/better offerings in the future.
www.bacardi.com
Bacardi rums
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Dr. Noa Kekuewa Lincoln
Category :
Education - Sugarcane Research
Sugarcane Preservation
Country : U.S.A.
It is hard to preserve our heritage if we do not fully understand our origin. Sugarcane is at the heart of our industry and few researchers have done as much to study and catalogue native cane varieties as Dr. Noa Kekuewa Lincoln. His book was featured in the September 2020 issue of “Got Rum?” and is a must read for anyone involved in growing and harvesting sugarcane.
www2.hawaii.edu/~nlincoln/bio.html
