St. Thomas Distillery Tour (and The History of Rum)
Duration: 2.5 hours Difficulty: Boozy
St. Thomas Distillery Tour Overview
Walk the streets of this old island town while your guide shares the history of rum and how it shaped St. Thomas and the entire Caribbean.
After visiting several historical locations in Charlotte Amalie you’ll enter the walls of a 200-year-old building. The building is ordinary and nondescript but inside is a craft distillery where rum and other spirits are made.
Visit a craft rum distillery located in a 200-year-old building almost lost to history.
Learn about the process of rum-making from start to finish. A master distiller will share not only the steps involved but also provide samples of rum in its early stages of fermentation.You’ll also get to sample aged rum directly from a barrel! And for the true rum aficionado you’ll bottle your own rum to take home with you! (maybe?)
This is the southernmost craft rum distillery in the United States. This craft distiller is tucked away in a beautifully restored building dating back generation. Now owned by a native St. Thomian, 3 Queens is a love letter to rum and the history of St. Thomas. And after your tour, you’ll get to relax with a rum cocktail in the private gardens at the distillery. This will be the highlight of your trip to St. Thomas.
From $59 per Person
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What’s Included
Admission to Fort Christian
A walking tour of historic Charlotte Amalie
A behind the scene’s tour of the island’s only rum distillery
Taste rum at various stages of the distilling and aging process
Water and light snacks
An experienced guide and distiller to share ever aspect of the rum world
Hotel/cruise ship pick up
What to Expect on the distillery tour
Enjoy a wonderfully casual exploration of the history of rum. We’ll begin the tour at Fort Christian and so will begin your introduction to the island rum experience. We’ll start by sampling a small bit of “kill devil”, aka rum. After the rum and a brief chat about the fort you’ll get to explore the walls and dungeons of this massive fortification.
We will weave the beguiling history of St. Thomas with the rise and domination of rum on this and many of the surrounding Caribbean islands.
The guided tour will take you to stops at several iconic spots on our way to the longest running craft distillery in the Virgin Islands.
At the distillery you’ll learn the process for taking sugarcane and turning this sweet little grass into rum. And you’ll you get to help in the process by tasting and sharing your thoughts on the progress of the spirit.
After several samplings you’ll get to bottle your own rum from aged barrels! Take this bottle with you as the ultimate souvenir.
After the tour you’ll be free to relax in the tropical gardens as long as you like. And rest assured there is plenty of rum for enjoying another cocktail or two.
Meeting & Pick Up
Fort Christian Steps
The tour will start where all St. Thomas stories start – at Fort Christian. A structure dating back to 1672. From there we’ll tour the alleys where the rum trade started and thrived for two hundred years.
Fort Christian Steps
We’ll make our way to our final destination – 3 Queens Rum Distillery, the only distillery in St. Thomas.
Additional Tour Info
- Blackbeard’s Castle (spoiler alert – not really Blackbeard’s or a Castle, but still awesome)
- 99 Steps
- One of the oldest Jewish Synagogues in the Western Hemisphere
- The Estate of General Santa Anna
- A incredibly preserved former Slave Quarters
- Churches dating back hundreds of years
- Blackbeard’s Castle (spoiler alert – not really Blackbeard’s or a Castle, but still awesome)
- 99 Steps
- One of the oldest Jewish Synagogues in the Western Hemisphere
- The Estate of General Santa Anna
- A incredibly preserved former Slave Quarters
- Churches dating back hundreds of years
