St. Kitts and Nevis were known as the “sugar islands,” with abundant fields of sugar cane, and alive with the milling of sugar cane, and the distillation and production of rum. Unfortunately over time, those distilleries disappeared and now the only rum produced locally is home brew or “hammond.”
There remains a brand of rum which is bottled and blended on St. Kitts by Demerara Distillers Limited of Guyana. CSR, Cane Spirit Ritchmont,“The Spirit of St. Kitts,” is a light spirit distilled from cane sugar syrup, rather than molasses, from which rum is generally made. It is perfect when combined with Ting, a grapefruit soda from Jamaica, for a “Ting with a Zing.”