The Washington, DC-area distillery is working with event partners and donating 10% of the sales of this banana-flavored, single-barrel rum to Whitman-Walker Health, a clinic that has long served the gay and transgender community. Cotton & Reed Banana Hammock Rum / Photo courtesy Cotton & Reed Cotton & Reed Banana Hammock Rum community, which includes a pair-up with the Pride Center of the Capital Region to raise money and awareness year round. Instead, it’s part of the craft distillery’s ongoing efforts to support the L.G.B.T. This special-edition bottle isn’t designed to benefit one specific charity. Albany Distilling Company Pride ALB Vodka / Photo courtesy Albany Distilling Company Albany Distilling Company Pride ALB Vodka Bottle “It’s important to us that it is not just ‘put a rainbow on it,’ but that it is genuine and contributes to the community,” says Privateer President and Head Distiller Maggie Campbell. Privateer Rum, based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, announced the debut of its sixth-annual Pride Label, which benefits local organizations year-round.
Some of these are first-time, limited-edition labels, while other producers have offered Pride bottles for years.
To celebrate Pride Month, here’s a shortlist of spirits bottles that honor and support the extended lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, and benefit related organizations.
