Mount Gay Rum | Black Barrel

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK
• MOUNT GAY MASTER BLENR COLLECTN POT STILL RUM
• THE ESSENTIALS OF MOUNT GAY BARBADOS RUM
• MOUNT GAY
• RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL
• A WHISKEY DRKER’S TASTG OF FOUR AGED MOUNT GAY RUMS

MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK

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.

MOUNT GAY MASTER BLENR COLLECTN POT STILL RUM

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.

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.

THE ESSENTIALS OF MOUNT GAY BARBADOS RUM

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. 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. 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.

MOUNT GAY

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. 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.

RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL

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. 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.

A WHISKEY DRKER’S TASTG OF FOUR AGED MOUNT GAY RUMS

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.

Here are 10 of the bt m—and rhum agrile—brands, all styl, to drk this GayBarbados’s Mount Gay has been around one form or another for about 300 years, but master blenr Tdiann Branker has only held her tle at the distillery for a ltle more than a year. Last year, Branker ntributed her first Master Blenr Collectn exprsn lled Mount Gay Pot Still Rum, which was only distilled pot stills, stead of the ual batn of pot and lumn stills. We ought to see more special releas like this the g Mount Gay From $26, Real McCoyFoursquare is another Barbados distillery known for makg great m, some of which is sold unr other brand nam.