Sustainability - Pekut and Carwick Independent Bottlers

Sustainability

A collection of 9 posts

Two men rolling a whiskey barrel up a ramp.

Why Independent Bottling?

We occupy a unique position in the distilled spirits industry. We co-brand. We import, blend, bottle, rectify, and distribute. We don't distill, but we work with farmers, fruit growers, and distillers. We even do private label bottling. We're testing the boundaries of making, marketing, and selling

Image of a sugar cane field with blue sky in the background.

Handbook of Rum

The most interesting US rum

We take delicious and ethically produced rum seriously. For us, that means finding rum producers who make and market interesting products that we can get behind, both as consumers and as importers/bottlers/distributors. Domestic rum is particularly interesting to us. Sorting through ALL the rum made in the US

Detailed closeup of dried barley grains.

About grain

A while back we mentioned that we’re working with Spirit Works Distillery in Sebastopol, California, to release some of their excellent wheat and rye whiskey. Those projects got us thinking about grain, and how this is our first foray into whiskeys not made from malt (remember malt? we'

A hiking trail tapers off into the distant hills.

2021 equity benchmarking

The end of the first quarter has passed (wow that flew by), so here are some updates on progress since the new year. If you haven't already perused our website, I posted some of my thoughts on being a white small business owner in an economy built on

Cutting the Sugar Cane, a print of an original 1823 drawing by William Clark of enslaved workers cutting cane in Antigua.

Rum is f*cked

I'd like to encourage you to check out Céline Bossart's article Decolonizing the Whitewashed World of Carribean Rum on Liquor.com. It's required reading if you consume sugar cane products (rum, refined sugar, molasses) or similar things like coffee and chocolate here in the

Shiny, fresh Seville oranges in a blue plastic crate.

Orange you glad we said Sevilles?

Winter is peak citrus season here in California. It's also the season of coming home late at night reeking of orange peels and vanilla beans after processing this year's batch of Citrus Aurantium California Vin D’Orange! If citrus x aurantium sounds unfamiliar, maybe you know

We Are Not Alone! A Rant

We Are Not Alone! A Rant

Last week we were flipping through a reputable craft spirits industry publication, keeping our eyes peeled for topics we are passionate about, like how the spirits industry can do better from a sustainability standpoint. We read a large spread about US-based craft rum distillers. Many companies were mentioned, and the

A container ship loaded with stacks of containers traverses grey waters.

Global value chain of rum

Ever heard of a GVC? According to Stefano Ponte, author of Business Power & Sustainability, a Global Value Chain is "the full range of activities that firms, farmers, and workers carry out to bring a product or service from its conception to its end use". Whether you'

Casks, kegs, and tanks in a room at Spirit Works Distillery.

Why independent bottling will save the world

I was standing in a Campbeltown warehouse when I decided I wanted to be an independent bottler. "Sure", you say. "And you were probably at least five drams in." It might have been six or seven. I was in Scotland and had driven 3 hours down