While the locals of Caribbean islands such as Jamaica squeezed the sweet sugar cane juices to produce, ferment, disture, and aging to a dark rum, they kept their fluid in Cuba and Puerto Rico during a very short aging period after distillation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The above noted alcohol content may differ from the alcohol content displayed on the bottle label due to the timing of changes in vintage dates or production lot codes. The downside of this is that beyond the candy of these spices, it takes a real expert to taste anything else: try as I might, I could not discern more than butterscotch, vanilla and caramel and some very faint traces of what may have been orange.

This being said I completely agree with most of what was said and found this a great and honest review. The brothers, who ran a local pharmacy, had been purchasing raw rum from the distillery and adding their own medicinal herbs and spices before distributing it as their own product. uk accepts no liability for inaccuracies or misstatements about products by manufacturers or other third parties.Having bored you to tears with all of this tedious history and trivia, the question remains, is it any good? Please always read the labels, warnings, and directions provided with the product before using or consuming a product.

Captain Morgan starts this same way, and once the initial slurry is ready for distillation it is fed into a continuous distillation still (or column still) to produce the raw rum. I tried mixing the rum with cola, but I ended up with what tasted kind of like Vanilla Coke, which has always been my least favourite of the flavoured colas. The Captain Morgan brand actually originated in Jamaica, where Seagrams bought the Long Pond distillery in the 1944. Text, graphics, and HTML code are protected by US and International Copyright Laws, and may not be copied, reprinted, published, translated, hosted, or otherwise distributed by any means without explicit permission.The Vanilla became more noticeable each time I sipped the rum, its flavour grew in leaps and bounds until that was all could taste whenever I tried to steal a sip.