Roulaison Distilling Co.
Roulaison Distilling Co.
"Roulaison strives to create a superior product by exploring the dark recesses of rum history and pairing those with modern techniques in order to create unique and deliciously obscure libations"
Our Story
Roulaison comes from the Creole French word for sugarcane harvest. And Roulaison Distilling Co. does a lot with that harvest. Their award-winning line of rums includes their Traditional Pot Distilled Rum, Overproof Rum, Barrel Aged Reserve Rum and Amer Rum Liqueur. Each of their craft rums will make you dream of The Big Easy.
New Orleans is famously a place for exceptional spirits. Louisiana is also famously a place where a good chunk of the economy is tied to sugarcane production. Marry these two attributes together and you get Roulaison Distilling Co., a craft distillery determined to make NOLA known for its rum.
In 2013, college friends Andew Lohfeld and Patrick Hernandez were catching up over cocktails. Andrew had been working at an award-winning craft distillery, and had long been thinking about hanging his own shingle. So, he pitched Patrick the idea of opening a distillery in New Orleans. A Louisiana native, Patrick knew that Andrew was onto something. In 2016, they founded Roulaison Distilling Co.