Are you a rum lover? New distiller starts up in Strathaven.

A local couple have come up with a great way of combatting redundancy with the launch

a new rum brand.

Old Mother Hunt rum is the brainchild of Becky and Matt Hunt and is made entirely from natural ingredients, with two signiature flavours that would make great Christmas gifts or additions to your festive drinks collection.

They have kept the batches deliberately small so that the flavour can be perfected and are adopting an ethical policy by sourcing recyclable materials where possible.

You can read more about Matt and Becky's story and their Old Mother Hunt rum, as well as buy a bottle, at oldmotherhunt.co.uk.

We’ve kept our batches deliberately small so that we can perfect and hone the flavour of each run. We anticipate that as our experience and skills evolve, the flavours will change subtly and develop, enhancing each aspect of the palate. As we only use natural, whole and homemade ingredients, we expect there to be a slight degree of variation between the batches as the natural flavours are affected by changes in the season, rainfall, climate etc. We see this as a direct reflection of the uncontaminated produce that we are using and we’re excited to see how the flavours can change and interact with each other on new levels. Each run is proofed down using filtered, local fresh water.