A Whiskey Drker's Tastg of Four Aged Mount Gay Rums - Paste Magaze

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE RUM
• MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK
• MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE RUM
• MOUNT GAY – A VIS TO THE WORLD’S OLST RUM DISTILLERY
• A WHISKEY DRKER’S TASTG OF FOUR AGED MOUNT GAY RUMS
• MOUNT GAY
• MOUNT GAY RUM NAM NEW MANAGER
• MOUNT GAY RUM – LATT PRIC AND BUYG GUI
• MOUNT GAY RUM
• THE ESSENTIALS OF MOUNT GAY BARBADOS RUM

MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE RUM

MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE 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.

MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK

The birthplace of Mount Gay. Mount Gay Rum Distilleri is a m producer on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

Home › Dtatns › Mount Gay – A Vis to the World’s Olst Rum Distillery. Believe or not the guy who started the world’s olst m distillery, Mount Gay was named John Sober.

MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE RUM

It all began 1703 when Sober hired a guy lled Gay to make a product that was actually drkable. Gay did such a great job that they named the distillery where he did on a hill northern Barbados Mount Gay, after him, prumably bee Mount Sober jt didn’t have the right rg to .

This morng, spe jt overg the effects of yterday’s Superbowl aftershock shall we say, Alison and I are off to the Mount Gay visor centre Bridgetown for a tour and tradnal Bajan bnch.

MOUNT GAY – A VIS TO THE WORLD’S OLST RUM DISTILLERY

Twice a week Mount Gay offers a Bajan Buffet Tour for $62. After purchasg a ticket you enter a room where all the Mount Gay products are offered for sale along wh a great variety of Mount Gay related souvenirs, except for the greatly prized Mount Gay Red Hat which n only be won by participatg a Mount Gay sponsored yacht race. Also no Mount Gay idge mags.

Mount Gay Offergs.

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

The Bar at Mount Gay. Rumal leads the way to a semi-circular room where everyone gets a m punch and he proceeds to scribe the history of m makg at Mount Gay which by now I have figured out is not here, but somewhere the northern hills of Barbados. There are five basic Mount Gay products of which we get to sample three.

The Five Mount Gay products. The first is the Mount Gay Eclipse which is the standard offerg sold around the world wh the map of Barbados on the label.

Next up is Mount Gay Black Barrel which Rumal, towg the pany le, scrib as havg a warm medium body wh a long fish – translatn, a b ls like gasole than Eclipse, but mak up for that by spendg more time burng your throat. The bnch is acpanied by more m punch and I n’t get the thought of Mount Gay 1703 out of my head.

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Thanks to the folks om Mount Gay Rum, who generoly forward some sampl our way, I was able to nduct an illumatg, four-bottle horizontal tastg om the world’s olst mercial m distillery, wh bottle pric rangg om the affordable ($20) to the nt ($150). Mount Gay Eclipse (Gold).

MOUNT GAY RUM NAM NEW MANAGER

Note that this tastg we’ve chewed the venerable Mount Gay Silver, which is an unaged m, and skipped straight to the first entry the distillery’s aged seri, Eclipse.

Although I’m often happy to drk bottom-shelf whiskey neat, the thner body and rougher edg of Eclipse ( parison wh the olr bottl om Mount Gay) means I see this stuff as more appropriate for mixg. Mount Gay Black Barrel. No product the Mount Gay lp mak the brand’s marketg and mographic tentns so clear as Black Barrel, which all but screams “I am a m for whiskey drkers.

” This one is fished ed bourbon barrels, and is bottled at a slightly higher strength than the Eclipse, 43% ABV (86 proof)—which is also the proof of Mount Gay XO Rerve and Mount Gay 1703 Master Select. Mount Gay Extra Old (XO) Rerve.

MOUNT GAY RUM – LATT PRIC AND BUYG GUI

This is where the Mount Gay le starts gettg ser, a blend of ms aged between 8 and 15 years. Mount Gay 1703 Master Select. Mount Gay.

Mount Gay Black Barrel: the new spearhead.

The story of Mount Gay begs Barbados. Fermentatn really begs when molass and filtered water om Barbados are bed wh yeast (selected exclively for Mount Gay).

MOUNT GAY RUM

For over three hundred years, the distct and pure character of Mount Gay ms has e om distillatn tradnal lumn and pper pot stills.

A ground-breakg distillatn technique 1703, this procs has been ntuo e by Mount Gay ever sce. The ageg procs is particularly unpredictable the tropil Caribbean climate, and at Mount Gay, we prefer to talk about maturg. Today, Mount Gay ms are matured lightly charred Amerin oak barrels that have prevly been ed to age Amerin whiskey.

Allen Smh is the master of this craft of blendg at Mount Gay. Master Blenr2019 - todayFirst female Master Blenr at Mount Gay and Barbados, Tdiann Branker, graduate of the Siebel Instute and the Instute of Brewg and Distillg, posss a strong amic background, to which she adds over 11 years workg the spirs dtry. She joed the Mount Gay team 2014 as the Qualy Assurance Manager and followed the same path as Allen Smh wh the distillery—and she ntu to be spired by his legacy at Mount Gay.

THE ESSENTIALS OF MOUNT GAY BARBADOS RUM

Tdiann now shar the expertise and secrets of Mount Gay’s ms. Her natural cursy and great profsnalism guarantee a prospero future for Mount Gay.

Tdiann posss the sire to create, explore new ias and tablish a productive dialogue that is le wh Mount Gay’s ambn. It is wh great pri that I bee Mount Gay’s Master Blenr … to create new treasur, expand our ms and vent new blends.