Navy Bay Rum

An intense, rum from Jamaica distilled in both pot & column stills; then aged in ex-Bourbon barrels. It has an intense birth with notes of alcohol, spices & wood; while a bold life adds notes of fruits, brown sugar, molasses & cinnamon; that led to a long & bold death. September 2019

Nose of molasses, vanilla, brown sugar, flowers. Sweet, roasted, burnt caramel, lightly fruity palate. Some heat. Obviously cheap.

Aromas are dark cherry and leather. But the cherry smells a little closer to cherry wax than cherry fruit. Pineapple in there. Flavors lost the fruit at first. Leather persists. Wood and vanilla are hinted at. Then the fruit comes back on the finish before the alcohol burns. The aftertaste is a little bit of that wax and plastic.

Good dark rum, not surprising in its flavor, good mixer

Nose - overripe banana, burnt caramel, molasses, stewed apple, cola, brown sugar, sweet vanilla, pineapple, cinnamon, tobacco, cherry, boozy chocolate, mild to moderate ethanol burn. Taste - overripe banana, creamy vanilla, molasses, burnt caramel, nutty nougat, tropical fruit, cinnamon, tobacco, nutmeg, ginger, cherry, apple, mild alcohol bite, finishing medium length with molasses, overripe fruit, and baking spice flavors. This is unmistakably a Jamaican rum. The hogo is very present, but it tastes young and a bit underdeveloped. This doesn’t stand up to the likes of AE 12, but it’s not a bad budget option more suitable to mixing than sipping neat.

Heavy on the butterscotch smell and taste.