Tips on how to taste your own rum tasting at home—plus a link to rum tasting guide with a tasting notes template.

We’re thrilled to announce our most recent affiliation with Best for Colorado. Part of The Alliance Center, Best for Colorado provides an assessment tool for companies to measure their social responsibility practices.

What sets Montanya Rums apart in terms of their flavor profiles, plus tasting notes for each of our four rums.

Montanya Distillers makes its home at the end of the road in a mountain town, but the remote location doesn’t keep owner and CEO Karen Hoskin and her family from exploring the world. Her pursuit of quality spirits takes her from hidden gems in the Colorado Rockies to the busy streets of San Francisco and Miami. In this new blog series, we share some of Karen’s best finds. Next up: Hayes Valley, SF.

Jenny started out in the world of TV news. We’re grateful that her journey took her from producing the news to public relations because it brought her to our doorstep!

There’s a time-honored tradition of distilling rum in the mountains, including places like Guatemala, Colombia and Panama that predates even Caribbean rum. And now there’s Colorado.

Some nights are made for the ambience of a tasting room or to be out on the town. But sometimes, a drink at home is the best way to unwind at the end of the day or play host to your friends. So what should you stock in your home bar? Here are five essentials:

Montanya Distillers makes its home at the end of the road in a mountain town, but the remote location doesn’t keep owner and CEO Karen Hoskin and her family from exploring the world. Her pursuit of quality spirits takes her from hidden gems in the Colorado Rockies to the busy streets of San Francisco and Miami. In this new blog series, we share some of Karen’s best finds.

There’s nothing like warming up with a hot cocktail on a winter day. This two-volume set of cocktail recipe books includes plenty of cold-weather recipes, including a Montanya twist on Bulletproof Coffee. Click to learn more (and try out that coffee recipe).

When you are looking for gifts to give your adult friends that don’t cost an arm and a leg, but leave a lasting impression, consider making a batch of steamy cocktail mix with Montanya Rum! Decorate your own jar, bottle or container and give the gift of holiday spirit (literally!)

If you are skiing at Crested Butte Mountain Resort, you probably know The Avalanche Bar and Grill - one of CB’s iconic slope side bars and restaurants. The Avalanche has become known as the place to go for a Painkiller made with Montanya Oro Rum!

This cocktail is called The Super Chocolata because it is made from several superfoods: raw cashews and raw cacao.  Adding Himalayan salt and coconut milk also add highly nutritious elements.  Why not give yourself a healthful boost during cocktail hour too? 

We are now a certified B Corp! This honor comes in recognition of the work we’ve done to be good for our people, our community, and the planet.

Allysa has moved her way up the ranks at Montanya Distillers by bringing quality to every one of the many roles she plays at our company.

Gavin Hermann joined Montanya Distillers in January of 2017 and has been working full time with our crew ever since. His roles include merchandise shipping, booking the bands, serving, and most importantly, bartending. 

We knew we picked the right bottle supplier when we partnered with Owens Illinois. O-I was the first beverage packing company in the world to become certified under the Cradle to Cradle certification program.

In our July Bartender Feature, we talk with John Culbert of Flip Side in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Our collaboration with been such a blast. She is a highly trained chef and a true culinary artist with a flair for menu development.

We’ve partnered with terrapass® to offset carbon emissions from distilling, business travel, outgoing freight and inbound shipping.  Through the partnership, Montanya is offsetting about 52 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2018. The offset will help fund a Forest Management Project, which absorbs and stores about 2,500 more metrics tons of CO2each year than neighboring forests.

When Karen Hoskin, owner of Montanya Distillersand a founding member of Ladies of American Distilling (LOAD), took over as interim leader of the organization in February, one of the first things she did was change the name to The Women’s Distillery Guild (WGD).