We spent quite a lot of time at the distillery, including our first time when taking the tour. When we first looked around at the products, I saw this one called "Gingeroo", which was said to be a spicy beverage. So the entire time of the tour, I could not wait to get back to the tasting area and try it out. From the very first sip, I fell in love with this stuff, bought 2 bottles to go back to MD. It didn't take long to finish those, so I actually ordered 3 more to be shipped to me. Since they wouldn't ship alcohol to MD, I scheduled them to be delivered near our WV cabin, so what do they do?? They shipped them, but I still actually had to go to CUMBERLAND, MD to pick up the box!!! Anyway, every year on our trips to New Orleans, we'd stop by the distillery and buy at least 3 cases of Gingeroo, and I still have a few botles left, but it'll really be a sad day when that last bottle is opened. Most of my friends do not see what's to like about Gingeroo and they can't understand just why I love this stuff - I get teased a lot about it, but, hey, not everyone likes the same things. Due to their fire and closing of distillery, I will always be upset at myself for not buying more cases. The owner is an artist, and a very good one at that, so I guess he's just wanting to concentrate on that. But, I will always be so sad that the distillery is no longer open. read more

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Like most other reviewers we had a great experience. This place is 8 minutes from our house and we had zero clue. The tour was informative and engaging without being boring. I liked that the head distiller was on site and was a New Orleans native. Tastings were plenty and I probably never would have tried these different types of rum otherwise. All in all super happy with the experience for the price and even managed to discover the Gingeroo and grabbed a bottle to take home. read more

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Made a point to stop here just because it's the Oldest Us Rum Distillery. You gotta go !! Small place that is set up just perfectly for them. We took the tour ..... with a lot of people in another group. Enjoyed it and it was very Informative but "Bob" added just a tad bit too much with the game playing. Each rum stands on it's own merit... regardless of which flavor you like. They also have the high water mark from Hurricane Katrina on the wall. He also discussed their rum losses along with lessons learned. Definitely a good stop when exploring New Orleans. read more

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We purchased a Groupon on a whim because we love rum. The tour offers a free shuttle not far from the French Quarter. Our tour guide/driver Bob was fun, provided lots of history on the rum making process, and afterwards we sampled about 6 rums. I'm glad they bounced back post Katrina. They use activated charcoal to remove impurities from the rum...which was the first major lesson I learned here. Bob was very informative and We left with a lot of knowledge. We bought the gingeroo, which was quite spicy and the Cajun spiced Rum. Quality rum at good prices. read more

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3.5 Stars While I did like this place, I think because of its current ratings I expected it to be awesome, and it was really just okay. I highly recommend going when the temperature is cooler outside, because otherwise you will sweat non-stop. If you purchase a ticket and pay extra, they will pick you up at the the French Market in their shuttle. Definitely do this, because the place would be extremely hard to find on your own. The semi-surly (and late) bus driver surprisingly turned out to be our host for the event. You walk into the tiny main office, with only a wall unit to cool it off, and he gets busy making your first drink - either a punch or tea with their rum. Then he makes assorted drinks and starts giving you the history of rum and how it got to NOLA. When he asks questions, shout out the correct answer, and an extra drink will be yours! Then we did the tour, which was going into their non-air conditioned warehouse, and following him around for 15 minutes as he showed all the processing steps. Interesting, but hot. Back in for the tastings, finally! He was really, really, really pushing the Cajun Spice rum; however, I only liked the Gingeroo because it was both sweet and fizzy. My favorite part was actually the original art displayed on the walls by the one of the owners - his name is James Michalopoulos, and he is incredibly talented. read more

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Everywhere I go I'm always looking for a good rum tour. I mean rum is life. I was excited to find Old New Orleans Rum. Booked the tour online before I arrived to the city. There an option to also book a complementary shuttle, $15. If you're staying in the French Quarters I recommend it. The bus picks up behind the Organic Banana in the French Market. Our shuttle bus driver was also the tour guide. As we walked in we were greeted with cocktails. This is the kind of welcome I like! We got a history of the company, liquor in the US, and New Orleans. Then toured of the facilities. At the end we got to taste all the rums. Of course you can buy and the rums of souvenirs. There's also the option to ship the bottles home. read more

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Our One Brick Builds group had an amazing time on this tour! Many thanks to the One Brick NOLA members who set it up for us -- it was truly a memorable experience! Upon arriving for our 4 PM tour on Friday, we were welcomed with a Cajun Spice Ice Tea and then the trivia began! If you answer the question correctly first, you get another cocktail (another Cajun Spice Ice Tea or Gingeroo). I'm happy to say I got 3 of them right. Once we're all feeling good, we leave the tasting room to see the barrels & machinery. Bob was an awesome guide who expertly kept everyone focused, even those on the tour who had already had a bit too much to drink. He explained the history of the distillery, including showing us the Katrina water line and explaining that 15% of their stock was lost due to flooding. We learned so much about the distilling process and gained a new appreciation for rum and the Old New Orleans method. All of this learning makes you thirsty! So we reentered the tasting room to find samples lined up for us. Bob went through each one to explain a bit about the rum we were about to sample. We got to try a divine platinum-awarded rum as well as the amber, cajun spice, 1818, and Gingeroo. These guys really make a great product! And their model is effective: get everyone tipsy & happy and then sell them things! I ordered a bottle of the Amber to be shipped to my dad, the rum lover in our family. I also got a cool magnet, which is made out of a barrel stopper! Another cool offering is that if you buy a flask, they'll fill it up for you for free. All of the staff was so cool and really knows their stuff. Bob even dropped us off at our desired location on Frenchmen St. afterward. This is a tour and an experience that no rum (or fun) lover should miss! read more

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5 stars for the best rum tasting tour I've ever been on! We decided to try this place out and made it to the last tour of the day at 4 pm. The tour cost $15 per person. We started the tour with a trivia game where anytime we answered a question correctly we were rewarded with a drink. A lot of it was history related and let's just say the boyfriend was winning by a long shot (he's such a nerd and I love it). I've done many others tours before and it was a fun interactive way to start out. The location itself is on the small side. Our tour guide Bob was very knowlegable and answered all of our questions. He was open to hearing our opinions on other rums or liquiors. We walked through the back area of see how the rums are barreled, how the alcohol is made and the bottling process. I can't believe all the different labels created on these bottles. I liked how the label is more similar now so that it's easily recognizable in the store but adding a little different art on the back label. I really enjoyed the spiced rum, much better than Captian Morgan. My close second would be the Gingeroo, even better if you mix them together! All around one of my favorite tours I've been on, I definitely recommend a visit! read more

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Heads, tails and plenty of hearts! Great rum tour located on the outskirts of downtown NOLA. The tour included all parts of the distillation process and all about the barreling process. Our tour guide was great and he was very knowledgeable about the process. We also tasted about 6 different rums at the end of the tour! We also bought 2 bottles-which they packed well for our flight home! Shuttle service also provided to and from with pickup in the French Quarter. read more

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Solid tour and service. Coordinated a bachelor party here and it was good. Staff were friendly.

The tour guide was very knowledgeable and gave us details about the making of the rum and it's history...he also gave us plenty of liquor to drink which made the experience that much better. read more

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Rum-A-Rama-Thon! SITREP Coming to this historic site made me feel a bit like an old Conquistador on a quest with the famous Spaniard, Ponce de Leon, searching for the "Fountain of Youth" in the New World. And in a way, we succeeded, for we found what we searched for: an original well-spring for RUM @ The Old New Orleans Rum Distillery itself! THE SETUP If coming from the French Quarter, I would make sure to drive the distance, or at least take the bus, but it's a long walk other. The Rum Distillery is in a hood surrounded by some dilapidated buildings that really took a pounding from Hurricane Katrina, and it shows. During the Rum Distillery tour, our guide pointed out on a few different occasions at different locations throughout the building where the watermarks were for where the flooding had completely immersed everything beyond eight (8) feet above ground-level here, which is pretty high ground as it were here in NOLA period. THE RUM VARIETALS I sampled all their rums, all delicious with their own character. I went from the silver to the Cajun Spiced, to the super smooth aged blue label, all before the tour even started: * Their Silver Blend - knows as "Crystal" - she is the youngest & cleanest with no Oak Barrel aging - and interestingly enough, my favorite - and the one I purchased at $17 for the bottle. * The 3 Year, which is a delicious blend and very very smooth, with a deeper taste. * The 10 Year, which had a delicious oaky and smokey taste to it and probably still worth it at $55, but a bit beyond what I was willing to spend for a bottle of rum - and to be honest, at this price I'd rather spend it on a bottle of Cognac Brandy. THE TOUR ON RUM MAKING The 70-80 minute tour was a lot of fun and it allowed me to get answers about the art of rum-making: (1) From it's fermentation process with the hops, (2) The cleaning process and getting rid of acetone, (3) The very colorful bottles that package the rum for sale; and, (4) The interesting history of this particular distillery's successes AND failures since they were all out for us to see. It was interesting to note one prototype bottle that was sitting out there for all to see labeled "Jalapeno / Anaheim" - one could only wonder what kind of Frankenstein'esque concoction this was intended as! All in all, it was a grand time and I got quite a few pictures to show along with the very interesting dialogue about this exciting history of rummery. THE LOWDOWN This distillery is a fun stop for any trip to NOLA and it provides a delightful rum tour showing the process from beginning to end. read more

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I have never been to a rum distillery before, so when I saw that there was a rum distillery in New Orleans, I had to check it out. My significant other and I took a Lyft from downtown New Orleans to get here. Yes, they offer a shuttle if you want to go that route as well from the French Market and you can book it online or call in if you want to. We just wanted to do a tasting since the majority of alcohol is produced in a similar fashion and opted not to do a tour. We went on a Tuesday afternoon so it was pretty relaxing inside. We started off with a cocktail then had sample of all of their different rums and of course, their Gingeroo. I thought all of them were very unique and potent, in a good way, especially the newly released Gris Gris. My favorite was the Amber though. Overall, if you want to travel to the oldest rum distillery in the United States then this is it. The tastings were great and were $7.50 each. Our guide through our tasting was very knowledgeable and entertaining throughout. read more

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There was a hidden agenda we had for visiting this place. See, I lived down the block of this place 30 years ago and low and behold there's a distillery. It's meant to be! We booked a tour on line for $15 p/p and it was certainly worth it. On a hot summer day at 2:15pm we were greeted with black tea spiked with spice rum. So refreshing I had two cups and the tour hadn't started (don't judge, after all look at where we are at!) Bob, the tour guide was phenomenal. He opened up the tour with trivia questions mainly about rum and about how Old New Orleans came to be. The person answering the question correctly got a shot of one of their rums. So if you're good at trivia you'll be buzzed 10 minutes after it starting :) Bob took us through the processing of the different kinds of rum, how the location withstood Katrina and how it continues today with various samplings of their batches. It was a very nice experience I would recommend to anyone visiting New Orleans. After all, it's a part of history! BTW, their rum tastes fantastic and VERY reasonably priced. Take a look at few photos I took, you'll enjoy it :) read more

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I have done many distillery tours and they all vary so I have learned one thing, do not have any expectations. We paid about $12 for the tour. Make sure you go online and book, they sell out on weekends. The main setback to this company and I hope they work on this is that we bought our tickets online with a shuttle from the French Quarter but never got an email, phone call or text as to where or what time the shuttle would pick us up. We called for 2 days in a row before our tour and never got a live person to answer our question. At least leave it on the machine guys. Needless to say, we paid extra and Ubered here. FYI our driver said it was in a very bad part of town (aren't all distilleries though?) so don't wander off. I can't be mad that when we arrived they had a sweet tea rum concoction waiting for us. We drank as much as we wanted and as we waited patiently for all the people on the tour to arrive. Bob was our tour guide. What sweet man. He clearly enjoys the tour and teaching everyone about the rum process. We got to see the distillery process, bottling and even learned how they survived Katrina. It was very informative and fun. I enjoyed tasting all of the different rums at the end of the tour. read more

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Rum distillery tour at New Orleans Tour guide was very knowledgeable explaining process of how rum are made. He answered all the questions our group had. Learned that rum is made from molasses. We tasted three unaged rum and two aged rum. I liked gingeroo which is a carbonated ginger cocktail with rum. This product will be available at local costco. We liked amber rum which was aged 1-3years. It had a nice aroma and taste. We bought a bottle to take home. read more

We had a lot of fun simply because the tour guide, Bob, was charming, informative, and made learning about rum fun! The tasting was a bonus - each rum flavor we tasted had it's own unique flavor and kick. All of them were delicious! The only con would be that it was pretty hot during the tour, and I wish I would have seen the complimentary fans before we started. Rum + heat = sweat! However, our tour guide was mindful and the tour didn't take long enough to make us uncomfortably hot. I'd definitely still recommend this tour to friends! We purchased our tour on Groupon - such a great deal! read more

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If you are looking to taste rum, learn about it and tour the distillery then I'd definitely recommend stopping here. It's kinda off the beaten path and it wasn't crowded both times I've been in here. An Uber ride from the French Quarter area is definitely worth it and inexpensive. The tour was very educational and interesting. The tastings were smooth. One thing that stands out to me and makes this place unique is the gingeroo and other ready made cocktails they bottle and sell. All the ones I tasted were delicious! Our recent visit we picked up a bottle of special edition 1718 tricentennial blend and it was also smooth. read more

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You must go here when in New Orleans! You can call it a cultural, historical excursion...or another great place to drink! Two years later, we still order their anniversary rum as it is the best we have ever had. The place is the oldest rum distillary in the US (ok, it's only about 23 years old, but still historical). You get a short tour of the place, and lots of drink samples. They have a shuttle from downtown. The mood was like a fun grammar school field trip with strangers who just want to have fun. A definate go to! read more

A wonderful distillery that provided a tour and samples of their products. It is reasonable priced and offered free pick up from the French Market. read more

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We had a lot of fun here. The distillery is in an old warehouse and looks cool. The staff are very friendly. We were welcomed with a cocktail upon checking in. Our guide began the tour with a rum-based trivia contest. By correctly answering the questions, we got to sample Gris Gris, a new spicey rum that is about to hit the market. (Everyone who wanted to taste it go to.) We them toured the small facility and learned the history of distilling in New Orleans and this distillery. Then, back to the shop to sample all of the rums. The 20th Anniversary blend is awesome. The amber and white rums are also decent and will be good in cocktails. We could pretty much sample as much as we wanted and got to have more cocktails at the end, too. The only downside was that our tour group was huge. It was too many people. read more

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The Old New Orleans Rum distillery and tasting is exciting, historical and worth every penny. I randomly found this spot on Yelp and glad I did. My cousin and I have a blast. I will definitely be returning. 1. Meet-up: You meet at the French Quarter. A shuttle bus pick-up you up and take you on a 15 minute drive. Arrive 30 minutes before your ticket time. They are on a prompt schedule, but they do call if they don't see you on the bus. 2. Cost: It's only $15, but the cost includes: shuttle ride, tour of the distillery, tastings of all their rums and a complimentary welcome drink. 3. The Guide: Bob is the shuttle driver, tour guide, bartender, game show host and jokester. He's very knowledgeable about the distillery and keeps the tour entertaining. 4. Format: I'm not going to spoil it but it last at least 1.5 hours. At the end, you have the opportunity to purchase bottles and ship them if you would like. I purchased the Amber Rum for $20. Not bad. I plan to make their signature cocktail (Cranberry Lemonade Amber Rum). Did i say how much fun i had?!? Oh, you can smell the liquor when you walk in. Brace yourself. read more

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Rum tour equals 5 stars. Okay joking it is always a great time, and great rum. A lot of great facts and history. Oh and the free rum tasting. We bring all of our guest to the rum tour and always have a bottle of ONOR in the cabinet or 3. Great tour off the tourist path and they pick you up at the French market. Schedule tour and plan an hour or so. Call to book your tour. read more

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This was an unexpected hidden adventure. Rum isn't really my favorite spirit, but Old New Orleans Rum is a game changer. Heads up, when you go, it's probably better to Lyft or Uber because there's very little parking and the roads are horrible. (Well at least if you have a rental & love to keep your car) However, once you walk in, you are hit with a potent aroma of rum. After checking in, Bob the coolest host & tour guide. He greeted us with warm apple cider spiked with their cajun rum, which was surprisingly a delicious cocktail. Once all members of the party were in attendance, we started a trivia game about rums history, best part you get a shot for every question you get right!! We then took a tour of the distillery, learned the process of making rum, the process of aging, even the learn the lost taken when New Orleans was hit by hurricane Katrina. Once our tour came to an end, we were lead back inside, where we got the chance to try 5 out their award winning rums. read more

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We had a great time with our tour guide, Bob. He gave us a nice history lesson on rum and asked some trivia questions. Be quick to answer because if you are correct, you're rewarded with a rum cocktail. The tour and tasting lasted about an hour full of dry humor from bob and lots of interesting knowledge about making rum. The hour went quickly and you're rewarded with 5 tastes that were some of the best rums I've ever had. The highlights were the gingeroo and the 20 year anniversary rum. We couldn't leave without a bottle of each. read more

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I hope everyone has Bob the tour guide. He made this tour that could have been dull super entertaining. Brush up on your rum trivia and pay attention -- the rewards for answering are more drinks!! We did see some critters getting wasted in the angles share, but at least no one will be drinking that... read more

As far as distillery tours go, Old New Orleans is the mack daddy ya'll. -Very knowledgeable. Yes, you will actually learn cool stuff! About the rum making process, a little NOLA history, the background of the owner and how Old New Orleans Rum came to be. -the tasting portion of the tour will give you a rum for your money...see what I did there....eh?? ok, seriously though, you get to taste all of the different rums and if they pour extras they use scare tactics and tell you they will throw it away if you don't throw it down your gullet. There's no choice, really. -our tour guide made goodies at his house using rum and let us taste his homemade desserts AND had the recipes ready for us when we asked. This guy is a pro! -This is a great outing for 21 and up locals and tourists looking for something fun. -Oh and its only ten bucks! read more

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Like most brewery tours, distillery tours tend to not be very distinctive. For the most part, if you've seen one, you've seem 'em all. What set this distillery tour apart for me was the quality of our tour guide, a salty, entertaining older gentleman whose name I sadly do not recall. Sure, we toured all the barrels, pipes, and vats that are essential to the distillation and maturation processes, but what made this tour much more fun than most were all the colorful stories and little bits of history that our guide would pepper in among his explanations of the more prosaic aspects of a distillery. And then, of course, there was the sampling. Our welcome cocktail was a simple, but effective combination of their spiced rum, and sweet tea. I don't usually think of rum and tea as going together, but here the combo was addictively refreshing. I think this has more to do with the unique cayenne/cinnamon/ginger/clove spicing going on in Old New Orleans' very tasty spiced rum....dumping some Bacardi into a jug of sweet tea would not fare as well. After the tour, we tasted all the rums on offer, by themselves. They are obviously outstanding rums for cocktails, but they are also smooth enough as to be sipping rums, should one be so inclined. This distillery also makes a product called Gingeroo. This is a bottled rum cocktail with ginger juice, cayenne, and cane syrup - a definite must for anyone who loves a good ginger bite as much as I. Service is exceptional as well. I wanted to bring a few bottles home, but had no room in our luggage. No problem - I was able to purchase 2 bottles of the spiced rum, plus a bottle of the Gingeroo, and they shipped the bottles to my office in Miami. Shortly after returning home, I was enjoying Old New Orleans' spiced rum in my own cocktail creations. Highly recommended for visitors of the Crescent City and locals alike. read more

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Bob rules! You know why, because for only $10 Bob will pick you up at the Erin Rose or the other pick-up spot and take you through the town and show you some top secret stuff. Bob rules! He was so funny and engaging throughout the entire tour. All the samples were so delicious that they had me saying "WHO DAT!!!" by the end of the whole thing. I loved the Cajun Spiced Rum so much that we brought a bottle of it back to Texas. Bob friggin rules! read more

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This was a surprisingly awesome getaway from the usual stuff. This place had an amazing story from its origin to Hurricaine Katrina to its ore sent endeavors and future vodka products. Annie is the hostess with the mostest!she gives a great tour! You get to taste all the flavors. I bought 6 bottles! The Gingeroo is great! I bought some Cajun spice and crystal run as well. Yay! Kinda tipsy! Good times! Cheers! Happy New Year! read more

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I am really enjoying this tour. It smells like molasses, sweet and sultry. The tour was very informative. I'm so shocked this small place produces so much rum!! I love all the art and history. Diana was great, she is smart and keeps your attention. It's time to taste so I gotta go! This is a must do tour when my friends visit. read more

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This was a great tour from beginning to end! We took the 2pm Saturday tour this past weekend on a scorching hot summer day! The group was rather large, probably about 15 of us in total. The gentleman that instructed the tour was great, very knowlegable and friendly. We had a choice of two drinks upon arrival and both were delicious. Rum is my favorite drink and it was amazing to see the process with my own eyes. The smells are amazing from the early molasses start to their ten year old aged rum. I was repreimanded for talking with a neighbor which was kinda funny lol I felt like I was back in high school. The bottles that house new orleans rum are works of art and I love the cork top. This tour is awesome and definately worth the $10. charge. Bring your wallet so you can take home some of the wonderful rum; I especially enjoyed the cajun spiced one. Can't wait for it to be sold in PA. read more

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Okay, I can't review Celebration Distillation based on the tour, but rather as an event venue, because they threw one hell of a party last night and I was lucky enough to go. This was apparently the second time they've had an event here, and are hoping to make it a quarterly thing. Last night was the Mardi Gras Open House RUMble, featuring Sick Like Sinatra (and another band whose name escapes me because Sick Like Sinatra pretty much overshadowed everything that had happened up to that point). It was $15 to get in, but totally worth it because you got free rum and beer all night, in addition to great music and food trucks. I heard there were food trucks, anyway. It's a super cool space for an event, and if you see that ONO Rum is having a party again, I highly recommend checking it out. read more

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I can't believe I haven't reviewed this yet. So much fun. You get to see the science behind one of my favorite beverages. Have some samples AND buy swag. What's not to love. Yes, take a cab. While it's on Frenchmen, it's not on the Frenchmen near the Quarter and I-10 is in the way. But it's well worth the trip. read more

PACKED TOUR WITH GREAT SAMPLES Tucked into the quieter side of Frenchman Street, this Distillery's focus is on its handful of Rum. Typical street parking is nearby however if you're in the French Quarter, a complimentary shuttle will bring you to the paid tour and back. YUM YUM AND RUM Your tour already begins with a sample of simple, Sweet Tea made with their Spiced Rum. Insanely smooth and not too sweet--I could picture myself serving this during picnics. Following the tour you taste their whole line up. While a couple were served as straight mini shots, the other half was enhanced by small additions of lime or juice. I loved it all. Very quality stuff. Their Gingeroo was most unique with strong Ginger spikes and strong fizzies. MILDLY WANDERING TOUR The Distillery itself isn't that big but the tour was packed with information and stops relating to where they source the Sugar, the heating vats, wooden keg storage, purity of alcohol and even the bottling area. Although the machines weren't noisy, our tour guide (older gentleman) sometimes couldn't project loud enough onto the group of about 30. A couple times he'd say "I don't think I mentioned this earlier..." then say something he said minutes ago. But he was still very informative and covered all grounds--just not very engaging. Meanwhile his partner who handled registration and selling (young, artsy lady) was normally texting in the background and looked like she was forced to work that day. read more

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What a great visit! We scheduled a pick-up from Huck Finn's in the french quarter. Bob arrived right on time and we chatted along our ride to the distillery which is only about a 15 minute ride. Once we arrived we checked in and Bob poured us a drink, ice tea and spiced rum? Yes please! Luckily no only else came for the noon tour so we had it all to our selves. Bob took us through the process of producing rum and showed us the equipment and all. It was very interesting. After the tour finished we were able to taste the different rums that they produced. After all was said and done, we got back in the van for the ride back. The whole thing took about an hour. I'm so glad we got to do this, it was such fun and the staff was amazing. Call them up, schedule a ride and go! read more

I really enjoyed this tour, I highly recommend you check it out if your in the area! We were picked up at the organic banana in the French market. We went over to the distillery and checked in. We started with a cocktail of rum and sweet tea (I got 2nds for the ride back!) After everyone was checked in and had their drinks we began the tour. The tour guide is so genuine and very knowledgable about the distillery and process. We went through the distillery, even tried some sort of moonshine, and learned the history of the company. Once the tour concluded we went back to the front room and had samples of all the different rum. The gingeroo mixed drink is actually delicious! They can ship bottles back home for you as well ( I did 2 bottles of rum and 2 gingeroo and it was $80 with shipping to CA). I loved this and would do it again if I'm ever back in NOLA. read more

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My friends & I toured ONOR in April & I needed to come and write a review almost a full year later (I swear I've been meaning to do this sooner). My entire group unanimously decided this was one of the best things we did in New Orleans. The tour guide was intelligent & entertaining. We learned a lot about the process of distilling. We got to try (I'm pretty sure, my memory is not the best) all the liquors they create. Another thing that sets this place apart is we came probably 45 minutes before they closed and they didn't say a word to us about it. I would have kicked us out as the tour lasts quite some time. By the time we left, it was closing time. They were totally cool. Incredible staff & company. I loved all their liquors & have a new respect for rum after this visit. Being minutes from the French Quarter, it's definitely a must-see if you enjoy learning while drinking. read more

First off, don't get confused when you arrive at the distillery if you drive yourself. It is in a remote area with construction and away from the tourism, so don't think you are lost, just look for their sign at the end of the street. You must schedule your tour and don't be late. They also provide pick up if you do not have your own vehicle at a designated area, and they will tell you when you need to be there, DON'T BE LATE! The tour is $10 per person for 45 minutes; now the tour isn't like touring a huge operation like Barcardi or Napa Valley Wineries, it's a privately owned distillery by a NOLA local with less than 20 employees. But with the amount of his employees, they produce quite a lot from an operation side. Being on the beverage supplier side, who has worked with a start up beverage company to now a well know beverage supplier company, I was very impress with the dedication of the staff and the friendliness of everyone! Now without giving away the entire tour, you walk away educated from the barrels that host the rum, to operation, and how they are continuous improving, to expansion...they cover the history of rum and how they make theirs. Like I mentioned earlier, I work for a beverage supplier that our portfolio includes rum and it was interesting and fun learning how Old New Orleans Rum Distillery runs their operation. I would definite encourage everyone to take some time out of their vacation to take this inexpensive, educational, intoxicating tour! read more

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Book online ahead of time ($10 + $2 online booking fee = $12 per ticket) so that you can take the free shuttle they provide. I believe the shuttle only runs Monday through Thursday. You can choose to meet up at the Organic Banana (in the French Market) or Felipe's (not really sure where that one is). The tour runs about 70 minutes. Once you get there, they give you a sample of one of their cocktails. We had the Cajun tea (though kind of questionable - I'll explain later), which has a spicy kick to it. And trust me, that kick will deffo wake you up. Next, your guide will lead you through the distillery and give you a brief history, as well as their process from start to finish. Very informative, especially if you're into rum. Or even if you're not, like me! At the end of the tour, they give you four samples - the non-aged crystal rum, 3 year rum, 10 year rum and the Cajun spiced rum. I think I remembered that correctly. Hard to say since I was a tad buzzed. They also let you try their ready-made cocktail, Gingeroo. I LOVE drinks with ginger so of course I bought a bottle to bring home. There doesn't seem to be that much alcohol in there so it's good for all you lightweights. It's also not overly sweet either, like most ready-mades tend to be. If you add more rum on top, it becomes a 'dark and stormy'. Now for the questionable part. When we were trying the rums, our tour guide made a joke that we need to finish all of our samples and that they never waste rum there. Makes you wonder....where all the alcohol comes from that they put in the Cajun tea they give you at the beginning of the tour. Something to think about! read more