Welcome to
Stockholm Rum Fest 2024
To reduce our carbon footprint we have designed a digital guide with everything you need to know with times and happenings. Remember to drink responsibly and have a great time! Here is a fastlink to our festival map.
But first, have you heard of our gin festival? Every year on the second saturday of June we celebrate World Gin Day with dozens of distilleries from the nordics and the rest of the world. Expect a large hall filled with amazing gins of all styles, dry, oaked, pink, herbal, spicy, you name it! Well over 70 varieties will be on show along with dozens of tonics.
This years festival will be at K-märkt Garnisonen, right where you are standing now. Enjoy the gin garden, our masterclasses and the fantastic food and dj's. Follow this link and enjoy a 20% discount on all-day tickets! Just use the code RUMLOVESGIN when booking.
Our Rum Fest Awards are back! You have the chance to vote for your favourite rum in the PEOPLE'S CHOICE Awards. Voting this year is made digitally. There are 5 other rum categories with prizes to be awarded, decided by our professional jury as well as our Best In Dress and Best in Show. Read more here.
All-day ticket holders are permitted to stay in the courtyard during the break between 17.00 - 17.30. There will be plenty to do during the 30 minutes. There is a speed tasting inside the main hall with The Wine Hub. Make sure you book this tastings in advance before it sells out.
There will be a salsa masterclass in the park closest to the spiral staircase so you can slip of your shoes and dance your socks off.
During the break there will also be delicious food served up by Cane Rum Society.
For the full schedule with activities use this fast link and see what's going on!
Masterclasses
We have 10 masterclasses with plenty of variety at different times during the festival.
If you have not yet booked a masterclass then don't worry, yet. There might still be places left. Sign up with the exhibitors at their stands and grab one of the last seats. Remember to be at the meeting point 10 minutes before the tasting starts. Please see our festival map for the meeting points.
Time: 12:00 - 12:50
Top secret rum tasting by Rum interest and RomRobban (SOLD OUT)
Place: Bee urban. Meeting point is the spiral staircase in the courtyard outside.
This tasting will be in English. You will need a 1st session or all-day ticket.
Time: 13:30 - 14:20
Angostura with Global Ambassador Daniyel Jones
Place: Bee urban. Meeting point is the spiral staircase in the courtyard outside.
This tasting is in English. You will need a 1st session or all-day ticket.
Time: 14:30 - 15:20
Rhum Around the World: Island Hopping in a Glass (SOLD OUT)
Place: Chambre Séparée. Meeting point is just outside the room in the main hall by the glass hotel.
This tasting will be in Swedish. You will need a 1st session or all-day ticket.
Times: 15.00-15.50
Chocolate and Rum Pairing with Duane Dove
Place: Bee Urban. Meeting point is the spiral staircase in the courtyard outside.
This tasting is in Swedish. You will need a 1st session or all-day ticket for the first time and a 2nd session or all-day ticket for the second time.
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Time: 16:00 - 16:50
Manx Rum Unleashed: A Tasting with Outlier Distilling
Place: Chambre Séparée. Meeting point is just outside the room in the main hall by the glass hotel.
This tasting will be in English. You will need a 1st session or all-day ticket.
Time: 16:30 - 17:20 & 19:30 - 20.20
Brugal: A Journey Of Excellence
Place: Bee Urban. Meeting point is the spiral staircase in the courtyard outside.
This tasting is in English. You will need a first session or all-day ticket to participate in the 16:30 -17:20 tasting and a second session or all-day ticket to participate in the 19:30 - 20:20 tasting.
Time: 17:30 - 18:20 & 19:00 - 19:50
Rum & Cocoa: A Caribbean Affair
Place: Chambre Séparée. Meeting point is just outside the room in the main hall by the glass hotel.
This tasting will be in Swedish. You will need a 2nd session or all-day ticket.
Time: 19:00 - 18:00
Experience the World of Rum and Its Differences with Plantation Rum
Place: Bee Urban. Meeting point is the spiral staircase in the courtyard outside.
This tasting will be in Swedish. You will need a 2nd session or all-day ticket.​​​
Hungry? Cane Rum Society has got you covered!
You will find the menu from our partners Cane Rum Society below serving up traditional Caribbean dishes.
Need water?
Thirsty, ''every other'' or just need to wash out your glass and get it nice and clean to use again? Look out for our water station found in the middle of the venue, you will see it on our festvial map too. Here you can discard and rinse your glass and help yourself to a glass of refreshing swedish water.
Extra glasses? A bag?
Our glasses are cool right? If you would like to purchase a glass with your first or second session ticket, or more glasses to take home with you then make your way over to the main entrance. Ask for our glasses and have swish ready to use, no card payments or cash here!
If you would like a paper bag to take your glass home in, then you can find these by the main entrance. Please ask the staff. We take swish only and they cost 35 kr each.
Rum Fest Awards 2025
Introducing the First-Ever Rum Fest Awards at Stockholm Rum Fest 2025!
For the very first time, we’re raising the bar—literally. The Rum Fest Awards are here to celebrate excellence in rum, and 2025 marks the thrilling launch of this new tradition. With 51 exceptional rums competing across 5 distinct categories, each entry was blind-tasted and meticulously judged by a panel of true experts: Duane Sheppard and his bar manager Dominic from Cane Rum Society, Rom Robban of Rum Profile, and renowned rum and chocolate connoisseur Duane Dove.
Who will take home the glory? Join us and find out!
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The Categories are:
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Sugar Cane Rum
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Un-aged Rum, White & Light
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Aged Rum, The Younger Ones
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Aged Rum, The Older ones
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Flavoured and Spiced
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The rums were tested on Tuesday 8th April. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals were announced on Thursday 15th May, two days before the festival.
Try the rums themselves today at Stockholm Rum Fest!
Voting for the PEOPLE'S CHOICE will be done digitally this year and all votes must be made before 20.00.
The winner of the people's choice award will be presented after the festival.
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Scan the QR code or click this link.
We have also created a jury of rum experts to award prizes in the following categories:
* Best In Show
* Best Dressed
The winners will be presented at the same time as the People's Choice Award.
Festival Schedule
There is a lot going on at Stockholm Rum Fest as well as our list of exhibitors you will find other happenings going on here with music, live interviews with rum profiles together with Rum Radio (Rom Radion) and Salsa!
13.00 Doors open for the 1st session
13.30 - 13.50 Intro with Rum Radio and Rum Fest Awards Ceremony
14.30 - 14.45 Cuban band (TrÃo Ciclón)
14.45 - 15.00 Interview with Ian (Outlier Distilling Company)
16.15 - 16.30 Interview with Rum Interest
16.30 - 16.45 Last order for drinks
17.00 - 17.30 Half-time break
17.00 - 17.30 Heisenberg Hustle Cocktail Challenge with Rom Robban & Rum Interest
17.30 Doors open for the 2nd session
18.15 - 18.30 Interview with Daniyel Jones (House of Angostura)
18.30 - 18.45 Cuban Band (TrÃo Ciclón)
20.00 - 20.15 Interview with Clementina (Rhum Damoiseau)
20.15 - 20.30 Presentation for Best Dressed & Best In Show
21.00 - 21.15 Last order for drinks
21.30 Doors close
The Festival Map
