HANDMADE TEXAS RUM_™

Railean (ray-lēn) Distillers was founded by local Houstonian Kelly Railean.  The Eagle Point Distillery is 100% family owned and operated.  Kelly, is a First Level Sommelier with more than 15 years of wine & spirits experience and the first woman to become a Master Distiller in the State of Texas.  Kelly has created the first 100% Handmade Texas Rum and one of the first 100% domestically produced rums on the market today.

With that being said, there are several factors that truly make RAILEAN Rum, "best-in-class".  First, RAILEAN Rum is made with pure, unsulfured, Grade A cane molasses from Louisiana and Florida.  Many rum distillers use low grades of molasses because it is more readily available and less expensive, however, quality can suffer because the high sulfur associated with inexpensive molasses can create a bitter unpleasant taste and/or smell if not properly removed.  Second, RAILEAN Rum is produced in small batches in order to precisely separate and discard the heads and tails and capture the “heart of the spirit”.  This is extremely time consuming and labor intensive process for the Master Distiller, much too time consuming for a large distillery.  Lastly, RAILEAN Rum is aged at proof in new small charred American Oak barrels, a method most often used in producing single barrel scotches and premium brandies.  The majority of mass produced Caribbean rum is aged in used whiskey barrels, that is why some rum has a whiskey flavor to it.  Well, we want our rum to taste like rum, so we only purchase new charred American Oak barrels.  We are proud to say that we do not utilize used whiskey barrels at our distillery, only rum barrels.

Our goal is to produce small batches of handcrafted domestic rum spirit of superior quality and we think we have accomplished that goal.  But don't take our word for it, check out what our customers are saying about RAILEAN Rum.