Find Brands, Explore Maps, and Support Local Rum
Whether you are a rum bar, hotel, or restaurant planning matchday rum flights, a spirit’s store organising a tasting, or a distillery room hosting a watch along, the World Cup is the perfect time to explore your rum collection. Rum enthusiasts with a bulging home bar have the ultimate excuse to unleash their varied selection upon friends during a backyard barbecue watch-along.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup features 48 competing nations, and 32 of them are rum-producing countries. This guide allows you to run your own rum World Cup right from your bar top or kitchen counter, curate a custom flight representing the teams on the pitch and host a high-stakes tasting battle alongside the live fixtures.
How to Run Your Rum World Cup Tasting
Step 1. Check the Match Schedule:
Look at the daily World Cup fixtures. For the opening match, Mexico plays South Africa, giving you two incredible rum-producing nations facing off on the pitch.
Step 2. Select Your Brands:
Scroll down to our regional lists below. Click the link for Mexico to browse their specific producers, then do the same for South Africa, picking one bottle from each nation to represent the squads.
Step 3. Pour the Face-Off:
Pour a neat sample or prepare a signature cocktail representing each country for your guests right as the match kicks off.
Step 4. Vote the Winner:
Score the rums alongside the live game. If your home country is playing, you can use our interactive database map to locate and support your local domestic distillers during the match.
The Rum Contenders by Region
The Americas & Caribbean
Argentina: La Albiceleste are an iconic football team with a modest craft distilling scene producing artisanal molasses based rum in around Buenos Aires. Explore the Argentina Rum Map
Brazil: A powerhouse of fresh cane juice spirits, home to thousands of vibrant cachaça producers, of which 10 or so make quality aged rum. Explore the Brazil Rum Map
Canada: Host nation has 50 rum brands, 39 are distilleries, 29 are visitable, plus 60 bars carry rum on our Bars Map. Rum producers specialising in maturation and barrel ageing with rich dark profiles from Vancouver in the West to Newfoundland in East. Explore the Canadian Rum Map
Colombia: Renowned for football and traditional, aged solera aged rum with smooth, oak-forward finishes in14 rum brands. Explore the Colombia Rum Map
Curaçao: A small island with historic blending traditions intertwined with classic Caribbean maritime history. Explore the Curaçao Rum Map
Ecuador: High-altitude cane cultivation creating exceptionally bright, terroir-driven white and aged rums. Explore the Ecuador Rum Map
Haiti: A rich cane juice rum distilling history with rustic clairins that has authentic complexity in unaged clear rums. Explore the Haiti Rum Map
Mexico: This host nation has incredible, diverse landscape ranging from traditional agricultural rum to molasses blends across 23 producers, 22 are distilleries, 7 are visitable, plus 10 bars carry rum on our Bars Map. Explore the Mexican Rum Map
Panama: The home of classic, column-distilled rums aged Cuba influenced rum. There are 16 producers but 100s of bottlings of Panama rum to choose from. Explore the Panama Rum Map
Paraguay: A major hub for organic sugarcane production, yielding pure, earth-forward rum profiles. Explore the Paraguay Rum Map
United States: Host nation and massive craft distilling scene featuring 542 rum brands, 411 are distilleries, 369 are visitable, plus 667 bars carry rum on our Bars Map. Many neighbourhood distilleries will have watch parties. Explore the United States Rum Map
Europe
Austria: There are 7 rum producers in Austria with Inländer rum, navy-inspired rum, or botanical rum, and spiced rums. Explore Austria Rum Brands
Belgium: There are 20 rum brands, from indpeendant bottlers to craft distilleries and tropical rum bars to watch the matches. Explore Belgium Rum Brands
Croatia: A small but mighty footballing nation. It’s modest rum scene has domestic room or rum.
Czechia: Home to one of Europe’s oldest distilleries, it’s famous tuzemák style using molasses alcohol and aromatic infusions of vanilla and caramel. Explore Czechia Rum Brands
England: A long rum history with 113 rum brands from craft distilleries and home Caribbean and African blended rums. England produces a wide range of styles from high ester, aged, and spiced rums using traditional pot and column stills. Explore England Rum Brands
France: Famous for French Overseas Rhum, mainland France has 63 rum brands from craft distilled molasses and cane juice rums in the south. Cognac aged and blended rums with wine casks. Explore France Rum Brands
Germany: Historic German rum has evolved to 48 producers of molasses distilled craft rum and Caribbean blends ports like Flensburg produces traditional Rumverschnitt. Explore Germany Rum Brands
Netherlands: A long history of maritime trade, the Dutch excels in blending and craft distilling rums, there are 24 rum brands and several bottlings and botanical rums. Explore Netherlands Rum Brands
Portugal: Centred primarily on the island of Madeira, the Portuguese produce authentic rum made from fresh cane juice and aged in wine casks. There’s rum made on the mainland as well. Explore Portugal Rum Brands
Scotland: Beyond its famous whiskies, Scotland now has 37 rum brands, and distills bold craft rums that use local casks and inspires the UK rum scene. Explore Scotland Rum Brands
Spain: Spanish rum is world famous, but rum from Spain has 27 producers from honey rums of the Canary Islands and solera molasses-based rums from Jerez sherry triangle in Andalusia. Explore Spain Rum Brands
Sweden: The Swedes produce half a dozen rum brands in small-batch craft distilleries and bottlers. Explore Sweden Rum Brands
Switzerland: Swiss distillers harness pure mountain water to produce clean, precise rums ranging from unaged white rum to complex barrel-aged expressions. Explore Switzerland Rum Brands
Africa, Asia & Oceania
Australia: A historic powerhouse rum nation with a heavy pot still legacy producing bold, ester-forward rums. The Aussies have a whopping 93 rum brands from coastal craft distilleries stretching to Tassie. Explore Australia Rum Brands
Cabo Verde: This island nation is famous for grogue, a traditional unaged spirit crafted from pure sugar cane juice in rustic copper pot stills. Explore Cabo Verde Rum Brands
Congo DR: In the heart of Africa, using vast local sugar cane resources, this country produces an artisanal, small-batch rum with local M’Boma sugarcane. Explore Congo DR Rum Brands
Egypt: Home of the Egyptian king of football and rich sugarcane consuming nation. Egyptian distillers use regional molasses to create classic, light-bodied rums ideal for mixing. Explore Egypt Rum Brands
Ghana: A growing name in West African craft rum, focusing on community-sourced sugar cane juice to distill fresh, vibrant rums. Explore Ghana Rum Brands
Japan: Japan’s rum scene is artisanal distillers using local sugar cane varieties, from north of Tokyo to the subtropical Okinawa islands, there are 22 rum brands. Explore Japan Rum Brands
New Zealand: Small craft distillers along the coastline in north and south island harness the maritime climate to produce small-batch, molasses distilled rums aged near the ocean. Explore 17 New Zealand Rum Brands
South Africa: The rainbow nation is a year-round sugarcane producer, with craft distilleries from Cape Town to Mpumalanga produces both rich pot still and column still rums with fresh cane juice and molasses. Explore 30 South Africa Rum Brands
The Finale: Support Your Local Rum
Take the challenge to your friends, you don’t have to watch the matches alone on your couch.
And, why not do a blind tasting of the highest ranking teams rum pitted against the highest ranking rum countries.
For the ultimate vibe, head out to a rum filled venue. Use our interactive global Rum Bars Map to find a rum bar or cocktail bar where you are. These venues should feature rum backbars necessary to source the competing nations, allowing you to order a custom face-off flight while watching the games live on the big screens.
This is the perfect moment to crack open those unusual drams, and dusty bottles at the back of your shelf or ask your local bartender what craft rums they have waiting behind the bar. Discovering a new favourite producer from an unexpected corner of the globe is exactly what makes hosting a rum country tasting so unforgettable.
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