Pusser’s Night Watch Black Strap Rum 40%

Description

Pusser’s Night Watch Black Strap Rum is a limited edition Pusser’s Rum release. It follows on from other recent limited editions such as the Deptford Dockyard and Pussers Coronation Rums.

Pusser’s Night Watch is a blend of Guyanese and American Rums and is therefore a slight departure from the classic Pusser’s Rum style, which is 100% Guyanese rum, like the Blue Label or Gunpowder Proof.

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Pusser’s Rum: A Naval Legacy

Pussers Rum is named after the Royal Navy Slang for a purser, a ship’s supply officer. For more than 300 years, Royal Navy sailors were issued a daily rum ration or “tot”, a highly welcome daily comfort when one was away from home for many months. The Rum Ration was abolished on the 31st of July 1970 (“The Black Day”), and the Pusser’s Rum name quietly lay dormant until 1979 when entrepreneur Charles Tobias sought to resurrect the Pusser’s Rum tradition.

Tobias managed to obtain the rights and the blending information from the Admiralty, set up Pusser’s Rum Ltd on Tortola and, in 1980, began selling Pusser’s Rum, giving civilians the chance to taste an authentic naval rum for the first time.

Pusser’s Night Watch Black Strap Rum

What do we know so far?

• Night Watch Rum is a blend of rums from Guyana and the USA.
• As the label states, it is a dark rum made with blackstrap molasses.
• The blackstrap rum is distilled at South Carolina’s Hilton Head Distillery using Louisiana blackstrap molasses, considered to be the finest molasses in the world.
• The rum is distilled in a vintage wooden pot still and column stills.
• A blend of rums aged up to one year.
• It is bottled at 40% ABV. No artificial colour is added.

Pusser’s Night Watch Black Strap Rum Flavour Profile

Nose: MOLASSES | CARAMEL | DRIED FRUITS | ISLAND SPICES | DEMERARA SUGAR

Palate: RICH | SWEET | SPICED | LAYERED

Pusser’s Rum Charitable Donations, “The Tot Fund”

In return for the Admiralty Recipe, The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity (RNRMC) receives a donation from the sale of each bottle of British Navy Pusser’s Rum. Before this, the money went to The Royal Navy Sailors’ Fund, more commonly called the “Tot Fund”, until it was taken over by the RNRMC.