Pussers Rum Gunpowder Black Label 54.5 Percent ABV

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So a navy rum would be a rum guided by the Man recipe, a blend constituting aged rums from two or more of the colonies of Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad.

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The ingredients of gunpowder must be combined in a way to produce the physical conditions to facilitate combustion i.Naturally flavoured, Pusser's is the original Navy Rum, still produced in accordance with Admiralty Regulations for Rum.

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Or perhaps the test was just a means to part young and impressionable powder monkeys from their rum ration, rather than something conducted routinely on the ship?People are unlikely to still be blowing up gunpowder to determine if something is overproof, but the term is still relatively common and overproof rum is great for cocktails. In fact great care was taken to protect the magazine from enemy fire, vermin and stray sparks or embers. It has an uncomfortable history fraught with slavery and conquest, but rum’s present and future is full of vibrancy and life. Documentation from Barbados dating back to 1651 notes that, “The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor. Around 50% of the blend is from the wooden pot, double distilled rums from the Port Mourant still, and the balance is from column stills at Demerara.

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This dated back to 1979 when American sailor, Vietnam vet (he was shot down but survived and escaped), filmmaker, and tech entrepreneur Charles Tobias came to an agreement with the navy to produce this rum.

One of the most famous overproof rums produced by Wray and Nephew is 63%, making it undoubtedly overproof. If you were a sailor being paid in rum, you would want to know your payment was to a certain standard and not watered down would you not? The OIML recommendation for ABV used by the EU states the alcohol by volume in a mixture containing alcohol as a percentage of the total volume of the mixture at a temperature of 293. On the palate, the rum is sweet, with distinct molasses and caramel flavors, followed by tropical fruit notes of melon and banana, along with flavors of raisin, a bit of prune and date and some dried orange peel. The split was the half pint of rum to a quart of water (1:4), although there are varying suggestions as to just how much it really was diluted.

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Officers did not receive rations, theirs having been withdrawn in 1881 (warrant officers lost theirs in 1918).When the mainbrace was cut, sailors would have to climb up the rigging and splice together the ends of the mainbrace that had been cut.