Echo Spirits Queen’s Share Rum Returns As A Celebration Of What’s Important

Echo Spirits Distilling rum fans, get ready—your favorite spirit has made its annual return. This Friday, Nov. 22, is Queen's Share Rum Release Day!

At the distillery, we take great pride in the Queen's Share and believe it deserves its own spot on the calendar. We release it the week before Thanksgiving to celebrate friends, family, and gatherings during this time of year.

If you don’t know about it, our Queen’s Share Rum is a unique offering in our diverse lineup of award-winning rums, whiskeys, and other expressions. Each year, we delve deep into this, creating a special release that includes the most flavorful parts of our regular rum, which we’ve redistilled and barrel-aged in used bourbon barrels. This yields an even richer, more flavor-forward version of our white rum packed with the best aromas, and offers a decadent tasting experience. Normally, this is a once-a-year thing, although we’ve also done barrel finishes in the past.

Our focus on craft and dedication in this limited-edition offering is reflected not only in devotion to this rum here in Ohio but also well outside the boundaries of our state. There’s an annual spirits competition known as the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and we have a track record of bringing home medals like Platinum and Double Gold for it.

"Winning a Double Gold at San Francisco is like winning an Oscar,” said Joe Bidinger, Founder & CEO of Echo Spirits Distilling Co. “It's the highest honor at the most prestigious competition. It means that all ten judges grading your bottle scored it a gold. Out of the 4000 entries at the 2022 competition, less than ten percent won a Double Gold. Less than one percent went on to win a second Double Gold in 2023. And then we won it again in 2024.

“We think our Queen's Share Rum is some of the best rum in the world, and the judges in San Francisco think so too. Queen's Share Release Day is one of our favorite days of the year. After years of waiting, we get to share a special barrel with the people of Columbus.”

For 2024, we’ve gone even further than before, offering a 124.6-proof, single-barrel bottling that is our first non-barrel-finished Queen’s Share to be released at barrel proof. It is three years and four months old, aged in a used bourbon barrel that we sourced from nearby Watershed Distillery. Pricing is set at $54.99 per 750-ml bottle, only being available at Echo Spirits.

We know our Queen’s Share Rum release will once again be something worth celebrating. This Friday, Nov. 22, we are kicking things off at our Queen's Share Rum 2024 Launch Party, held at our home (985 West 6th Ave, Columbus, Ohio, 43212) starting at 4 pm (more details on our Facebook page). Our award-winning craft cocktail bar, The Bar at Echo Spirits, will have a Queen's Share Rum flight so you can taste the 2021-2024 releases all in a row.

Join us as we gather to share in this gorgeous rum to celebrate the bounty of life we come together for each Thanksgiving.