Global Rum Festivals Guide

2025 AGENDA

Global Rum Festivals 2024 (Updated 09/21/2024)

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Global Rum Festivals 2023

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Tours / Mutiples / Other

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Not Yet Scheduled

The events below have not been updated for 2023 so far, but have a good expectation of being held. (Last checked for updates March 25, 2023)

• Finest Spirits Festival, (FB)(IG) Munich (last held September 2, 2022 – DELAYED to Feb 2024)
• Jamaica Rum Festival, Jamaica (FB) (last held June 25, 2022)
• Seattle Rum Festival, USA (FB) (last held September 2, 2022
• Sola Rum, Food & Wine Festival, USA (FB)(IG)(last held October 15, 2022)
• Think Rum Trade Day, London (FB)(IG) (last held November 8, 2022)
• Whisky Live Singapore (+ Rum)(FB)(Ticketing) (last held November 19-20, 2022)
• Singapore RumFest in July, awaiting confirmation.

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DORMANT / CANCELLED / NOT HELD IN 2023

(Included for completeness; all will be deleted from this list if no event is held in 2024)

• 2023 Rum ‘n’ More Festival Germany (postponed from 2023 with no updates)
• 2023 Brooklyn Rum Festival USA (now NY Rum Festival, in June, still in Brooklyn)
• 2022 Seattle Rum Festival, USA (FB) (last held September 2, 2022, Cancelled)
• 2022 Jamaica Rum Festival, Jamaica (FB) (last held June 25, 2022)
• 2022 Think Rum Trade Day, UK (FB)(IG) (last held November 8, 2022) 
• 2020 Cologne Spirits, Germany(last held November 8, 2020)
• 2020 Toronto Rum Festival Canada (interrupted by COVID and never launched)

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AS YET UNCONFIRMED AND UNDATED

The events listed below are brought forward from 2023, but not yet programmed. Indicated months are from 2023 but there is no guarantee they will be slated for the same month in 2024 so exercise caution when planning them. When dates are posted and locked, entries here will be deleted and moved to the main section above.

• Feb West Palm Beach Tropical Rum Fest (postponed from 2023)(FB)
• Feb Guyana Rum Festival (postponed from May and Nov 2023)(FB)(IG)

• Mar I Hart Rum Festival, Melbourne Australia (FB)
• Mar Prague Bar show, Czech Rep (trade)

• May Oslo Rum Festival, Norway (FB)
• May The Rum Day (Sugar Cane Experience), Milan, Italy (IG)
• May Stockholm Rum Festival, Sweden (FB)(IG)
• May Prague Rum Festival, Czech Rep. (FB)(IG)
• May Bar Show Budapest (Hungary) (FB)(IG)
• May Oxford Rum Show, UK (FB)(IG)
• May Singapore Cocktail Festival (FB)(IG)

• Jun Trnava Rumfest, Slovakia (FB)(IG)
• Jun Bonaire Rum Week, Bonaire (FB)(IG)
• Jun Birmingham Rum Festival, UK (FB)(IG)

• Jul Singapore Rum Festival, Singapore (FB)(IG)
• Jul Tales of the Cocktail, USA (FB)(IG)

• Aug Alabama Rum Festival, USA (FB)(IG)
• Aug Panama Rum Festival, Panama (FB)(IG)
• Aug Fukuoaka Rum Festival, Japan *no website or social media presence

• Sep Sugar Cane Days, Hamburg, Germany (alt site)
• Sep Scottish Rum Festival, Edinburgh, UK (FB)(IG)
• Sep Salon Dugas Club Expert Spirits Show, Paris, France (FB)(IG)(tickets)
• Sep Boston Rum Week (FB)(IG) *Event program, not a single-location festival
• Sep Singapore RumBellion (FB)(IG) *Held in Cambodia in 2023

• Oct WhiskyNet Rumshow, Budapest (Hungary)(FB)(IG)
• Oct The Big Glasgow Gin & Rum Tasting, UK (FB)(IG)
• Oct Taiwan Rum Festival, Taiwan (FB)(IG) (web link may be dead)
• Oct Whisky N Rum Show, Denmark (FB)
• Oct ShowRum, Italy (FB)(IG)
• Oct Zeewicjk Whisky Rum an Zee, Holland (FB)(IG)
• Oct Nantes Spirits Festival, France (FB)(IG)
• Oct Barbados Food & Rum Festival, Barbados (FB)(IG)
• Oct Caribbean Rum Awards/  St. Barth Rum Festival (FB)(IG)

• Nov Guyana Rum Festival (postponed from May and Nov 2023)(FB)(IG)
• Nov Brisbane Rum Revolution, Australia (FB)(IG)
• Nov Taipei International Wine & Spirits Festival, Taiwan (FB)(IG)

• Dec Milano Whisky Festival & Rum Show, Italy (FB)(IG)
• Dec Caribbean Food & Rum Festival Hollywood, FL, USA (FB)

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Global Rum Festivals 2022

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Tours / Mutiples

• Gin & Rum Festival (around the UK, various dates)
• WhiskyLive (around the world, various dates – not all have rums, but where this is known, an entry will be added above)

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Webpages and festival sites that have not been updated for 2022, or are delayed to 2023

(Last checked for updates August 2nd 2022)

• Milan Rum Festival, Italy
• Cologne Spirits, Germany
• Toronto Rum Fest, Canada (postponed to 2023)
• Salons des Rhums & Terroires, Toulouse, France
• Rum Love Festival, Poland (also FB) (postponed to 2023)
• Glasgow Rum Festival, UK
• London Rum Week, UK

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Notes

1. Guyana Rum Festival (Sep 10-11) is limited; a bit of an expo, some cocktails, BBQ, music, and DDL and Banks products.  Not a true festival.
2. Craft show Edinburgh (Sep 10-11) reported to be majority gins, and rums made by those companies.

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