Fine rums and best cocktails under one roof at Heart of Darkness
Rum Bellion, Singapore’s first and largest rum festival (the “Event” or “Festival”), is back with fine rums and street revelry.
After 2 years hiatus due to COVID-19 restrictions, the main Festival and finale will take place on 5th June 2022, Sunday along Keong Saik Road outside Heart of Darkness (the “Restaurant”) and within the Restaurant.
Date: 5th June 2022, Sunday
Time: 1pm – Late
Address: Heart of Darkness, 1 Keong Saik Road, Singapore 089109
Tickets: SGD 12 per drink docket
Available only at Heart of Darkness
Fringe festivities will be happening on 3rd and 4th June 2022 at participating bars by overseas guest bartenders, leading up to the main Event.
The much-anticipated street Festival will feature the following highlights:
- Asia Pacific’s launch of the limited-edition Plantation Single Cask 2021 Jamaica 1998 CRV,
- Over 30 brands and 60 different expressions of rum
- Finest cocktails by Asia’s 50 Best Bars and more – Lime House Caribbean, Low Tide, Origin, Sago
House, Sugarhall, The Bar at 15 Stamford and The Kongsee from Singapore, and guest bartenders
from World’s 50 Best bars such as Dirty Dick (Paris), A/A (Jakarta), Buccaneers Rum & Kitchen (Manila) and Jungle Bird (Kuala Lumpur), and - Special edition Heart of Darkness beers inspired by popular rum cocktails like Daiquiri, Pina colada
and Mojito.
HIGHLIGHT 1: Launch of Limited-edition Plantation Single Cask 2021 Jamaica 1998
Highlight of the Event is the launch of the 22-year-old limited-edition Plantation Single Cask 2021 Jamaica 1998.
Singapore is the first to launch Limited-edition Plantation Single Cask 2021 Jamaica 1998 in Asia Pacific. The rum is distilled at Long Pond Distillery in 1998, then aged 20 years in Bourbon casks. It is then matured for another 2 years in Ferrand casks, and finally finished 10 months in Bardstown Fusion Series Bourbon casks. There are only 126 bottles for the Asia Pacific market.
HIGHLIGHT 2: Over 30 brands and 60 different expressions of rum
The biggest and newest rum brands will be pitting for the attention of the discerning and adventurous rum lovers. Some of the participating brands include:
| Abuelo Panama | Appleton Estate Jamaica | Bacardi Puerto Rico | Chairman’s Reserve St Lucia |
| Chalong Bay Thailand | Doorly’s Barbados | El Dorado Demerara | Equiano Barbados & Mauritius |
| Flor de Caña Nicaragua | Goslings Bermuda | Foursquare Barbados | Hampden Estate Jamaica |
| Issan Thailand | Monymusk Jamaica | Mount Gay Barbados | Nusa Caña Indonesia |
| Phraya Thailand | Plantation Caribbean | Renegade Greneda | Rhum Clément Martinique |
| Rhum J.M Martinique | Rum & Cane N.A. | Ron Colón El Salvador | Samai Cambodia |
| Saint James Martinique | The Kraken Trinidad & Tobago | Tanduay The Philippines | Tiki Lovers Caribbean |
| 6 Saints Grenada |
HIGHLIGHT 3: Finest cocktails by the Best Bars
Bartenders from Asia’s 50 Best such as Jay Gray from Sago House and Joseph Haywood from Low Tide will beshaking up finest cocktails for brands like Chalong Bay, Doorly’s, Equiano, Foursquare, Phraya, Renegade and Samai.
Other noteworthy participating local bars including Lime House Caribbean, Origin, Sugarhall, and The Bar at 15 Stamford. Visiting bars such as A/A Bar (Jakarta, Indonesia), Buccaneers Rum & Kitchen (Manila, the
Philippines), Dirty Dick (Paris, France), House of Sathorn (Bangkok, Thailand), Jungle Bird (Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia), and Teens of Thailand (Bangkok, Thailand) will also be at the Event. This is Dirty Dick’s first visit to Singapore.
HIGHLIGHT 4: Special edition Heart of Darkness beer inspired by rum cocktails
At this Festival, Heart of Darkness will be rolling out special beers inspired by popular rum cocktails like
daiquiri, pina colada and mojito.
FRINGE & OTHER ACTIVITIES
The Festival will also have entertainment by live DJ, tattoo artist and face painters. Fringe festivities will take place 3rd and 4th June, leading up to the main event on 5th June 2022. Overseas bartenders will be holding guest shifts at participating establishments:
3rd June 2022, Friday
4th June 2022, Saturday
| Guest Bartender | Host Bar | Guest Bartender | Host Bar |
| Scotty Schuder from Dirty Dick (Paris) | The Kongsee 10 Gemmill Lane, Singapore 069251 | Marek from A/A Bar (Jakarta) | Origin Bar Shangrila Hotel, 22 Orange Grove Rd, Singapore 258350 |
| Ulysse from Buccaneers Rum & Kitchen (Manila) | Sugarhall 19 Cecil St, Level 2, Singapore 049704 | ||
| Josh and Loli from Jungle Bird (Kuala Lumpur) | The Kongsee 10 Gemmill Lane, Singapore 069251 | ||
| Francesco from House of Sathorn (Bangkok) | Lime House Carribean 2 Jiak Chuan Rd, Singapore 089260 | ||
| Tamaryn from Teens of Thailand (Bangkok) | Low Tide 98 Club St, Singapore 069467 |
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