Woods Old Navy Rum, 70 cl

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Wood's is the only Demerara navy rum still bottled at 57% ABV, the original strength served on British Navy ships. Strong too, you might expect the high alcohol to add harshness but instead it smooths all the flavours into one delicious hit. The original strength of rum served on board British naval ships was 57% and today Wood's is the only Demerara rum bottled at this strength. Lovely stuff. You can really taste the demerara, just a hint of smokey bitterness from the barrels. Wood's Navy Rum is a traditional British naval style rum, still bottled at 57% and made to the original navy recipe from 1887. The spirit is made from Demerara molasses and contains three different rums, all distilled at the Diamond Distillery in Guyana, South America, before being shipped to the UK. One of these rums is distilled in the 250-year old Versailles still; the only single wooden pot still in the world. The spirits are then aged in Scotland in American refilled oak barrels for an average of 3 years, before being blended and made into Wood's Navy Rum.

Ingredients: 50ml Wood's Navy Rum, 20ml ruby grapefruit juice, 20ml lime juice, 20ml honey, ginger beer.

If at home, add all ingredients, other than ginger beer, to a blender with ice and blend. Pour into a glass and top with ginger beer. Garnish with a mint sprig. Made from sugar cane grown along the banks of the Demerara River, it is still made in traditional pot stills to produce a dark rum of uncommon strength.