Everythg you need to know about Mount Gay Rum.

Contents:

• 9 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MOUNT GAY RUM
• THE ESSENTIALS OF MOUNT GAY BARBADOS RUM
• MT. GAY, THE WORLD'S OLST RUM DISTILLERY LEADS A RUM RENAISSANCE
• 9 MOUNT GAY RUM COCKTAILS TO MAKE AT HOME
• CREATIVY WH A CONSC: ENTER THE 2023 MOUNT GAY RUM ‘A TASTE OF HOME’ COCKTAIL COMPETN
• MOUNT GAY VISOR CENTRE
• ICELAND GAY TRAVEL

9 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MOUNT GAY RUM

Mount Gay Rum. MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK. How to craftMount Gay cktails.

While perfectly enjoyed neat, the plex flavours of Mount Gay ms blend exquisely to cktails. Rum Makg at Mount Gay. The birthplace of Mount Gay.

If you’ve ever spent time around a mara, chanc are you’re faiar wh Mount Gay, a m that striv to mata a ep relatnship wh the sailg muny.

THE ESSENTIALS OF MOUNT GAY BARBADOS RUM

Whether you’re faiar wh Mount Gay or not, here’s everythg you need to know about a brand that’s been distillg m for more than three centuri. The spirs world lov s superlativ, and Mount Gay n claim one of the most veted. 20, 1703, Mount Gay is the olst ntuoly operatg mercial m producer the world.

The team at Mount Gay strongly spects productn was gog on even earlier, and has recently unvered a ed om 1654 that might seal the se. Today, Mount Gay produc the majory of Barbadian m that is exported globally.

MT. GAY, THE WORLD'S OLST RUM DISTILLERY LEADS A RUM RENAISSANCE

Back 1747, John Sober purchased the plantatn and distillery that would e to be known as Mount Gay. That name me om Sober’s iend, Sir John Gay Alleyne, who would eventually manage the m bs.

9 MOUNT GAY RUM COCKTAILS TO MAKE AT HOME

That means the island has lots of unrground water, a key element what mak Mount Gay unique and why the Brish cid to foc sugarne and m productn here the 17th century.

Hundreds of years ago, Mount Gay uld rely on the molass om lol sugar ne for all of s needs, but that’s no longer the se as there simply isn’t enough available land anymore. Mount Gay -ferments lol and imported molass. The proprietary yeast stra is based off a ptured wild yeast, which Mount Gay’s team then bred for nsistency.

CREATIVY WH A CONSC: ENTER THE 2023 MOUNT GAY RUM ‘A TASTE OF HOME’ COCKTAIL COMPETN

You’ll know a Mount Gay fan when you see them. Mount Gay has been closely lked to the world of sailg for s, as symbolized by s red (often worn-out pk) logo-bearg hat.

You n’t buy one — at least not directly om Mount Gay. Mount Gay’s current master distiller, Tdiann Branker, is the first woman to n thgs the distillery’s history. Followg a five-year apprentichip unr Mount Gay’s prev master distiller, she took on her current role.

MOUNT GAY VISOR CENTRE

Clean and clear Mount Gay Silver is the brand’s entry-level m, but grab while you n, bee ’s beg removed om the Amerin market. Like all tropilly produced spirs, Mount Gay ag nearly three tim as quickly as spirs barrel-aged oler climat.

And there’s a whole lot of m agg Mount Gay’s four wareho. Spirs also mature faster a tropil settg than lr northern clim, so nature set Barbados up for m excellence, and is no cince that the island’s most famo producer, Mount Gay, is the olst operatg m distiller the world, sce 1703. In this ve, the Mount Gay Visors Center is a standout, wh not jt the ual ee tastg and souvenirs, but a full slate of experienc, om a eper signature m tastg ($20) to a hands-on cktail craftg workshop ($70) to a tradnal Bajan lunch featurg the lol culary specialti and bottomls m punch - pl signature m tastg ($75).

There are a few other ep dive optns, many of which, like the cktail class and Bajan lunch, clu ee transportatn om hotels (the Mount Gay Visor Experience is an easily accsed mm-like settg the heart of Bridgetown, the island’s largt cy, not at the ral distillery self). I vised, and I tasted, and I loved , but you do not have to travel to the islands to experience the bt of what Mount Gay has to offer, cludg s newt special edns.

ICELAND GAY TRAVEL

Mount Gay’s signature, what the brand is famo for, is refully blendg aged ms, and s flagship label, Eclipse, claims to be the world’s very first such blend. But Mount Gay tak this ncept a step further, and for more than century, all of s products have been blends of spicier ms produced tradnal small batch pot stills and the on produced tall lumn stills, for a nuanced roundns distctive to the brand, a bt of both worlds approach.