In 1838, the Danish Government officially granted A.H. Riise an exclusive right to produce alcohol on the island of St. Thomas in the former Danish – West Indies, (now U.S. Virgin Island)
In June, 1838, the Danish Government officially appointed Albert Heinrich Riise as the exclusive pharmacist for the island and granted him monopoly status to produce alcohol.
Riise began the manufacture of rum on the island of St. Thomas in the former Danish – West Indies, (now U.S. Virgin Island) and he invented the first Distilled Bay Rum