Cruzan Black Strap Rum

Black Strap is the tiki bartender's secret weapon — the rum that makes a Jungle Bird a Jungle Bird. The Nelthropp family has distilled on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands for 250 years, eight generations, and Cruzan Black Strap is their aged dark rum — five times distilled, aged in charred oak — with blackstrap molasses added back for flavor, in the tradition of the classic navy rums of the Virgin Islands. Bottled at 40% ABV, it pours nearly black. The Rum Howler scored it 82.5 and called it an aromatic bombshell: rich molasses with black coffee and dark licorice on opening, then maple syrup building like flapjacks with butter, vanilla and cinnamon in the breeze — the maple note unlike anything he'd found in a rum, with the honest caveat that all that richness would cloy if not restrained. Best Tasting Spirits: vanilla, molasses, and coffee, a dark-chocolate entry building to sweet citrus, a long bittersweet mocha finish. Cruzan's notes: warm molasses and bakery-fresh gingersnaps, licorice, full-bodied and slightly sweet. Honest note: it's a molasses-flavored rum by design, sweet and heavy, and not a sipper for purists — but at its price it's indispensable behind a bar. For a Jungle Bird, a float on a Mai Tai or Zombie, a Dark 'n' Stormy with real depth, a Corn 'n' Oil, or a splash in a coconut cake, it's the darkest, cheapest, most useful bottle on the tiki shelf.

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