I just wanted to take the time to say that I find your scholarly work very informative and elucidating. I have a much better appreciation for British Navy style rum and its rich history. Thank you for the well cited and researched articles.
I had the pleasure of tasting the individual rums used in this blend, as well as the blend itself in SF several months back. We were apparently the first to try it stateside, which was an exciting thing to know!
It's a delicious blend! I loved the first one as well, and still have a couple bottles at home. I haven't seen the new bottle for sale yet.
If 55.7 was the correct ABV of navy rum, why is Last Consignment bottled at 54.something? Isn’t Last Consignment literally just actual navy rum poured into bottles, or have they tweaked it somehow? Or is their ABV statement wrong (trusting the old hydrometer statement rather than a modern method)? Or did navy rum ABV vary?
That is an excellent question! Thus far, we don't know if the RN stopped adding caramel at some point, and if so, when.
Mitch Wilson (Black Tot) did an interesting video testing rum from the flagons with an Anton Parr Snap 41, which *is* influenced by obscuration, if any. His measurements (on average) were fairly close to 54.5 ABV. But without a lab analysis of those spirits, we don't know what else, if anything, is in those rums.
I just wanted to take the time to say that I find your scholarly work very informative and elucidating. I have a much better appreciation for British Navy style rum and its rich history. Thank you for the well cited and researched articles.
Many thanks for the kind words! I try to write the type of content I wish were available when I got into rum.
I had the pleasure of tasting the individual rums used in this blend, as well as the blend itself in SF several months back. We were apparently the first to try it stateside, which was an exciting thing to know!
It's a delicious blend! I loved the first one as well, and still have a couple bottles at home. I haven't seen the new bottle for sale yet.
If 55.7 was the correct ABV of navy rum, why is Last Consignment bottled at 54.something? Isn’t Last Consignment literally just actual navy rum poured into bottles, or have they tweaked it somehow? Or is their ABV statement wrong (trusting the old hydrometer statement rather than a modern method)? Or did navy rum ABV vary?
That is an excellent question! Thus far, we don't know if the RN stopped adding caramel at some point, and if so, when.
Mitch Wilson (Black Tot) did an interesting video testing rum from the flagons with an Anton Parr Snap 41, which *is* influenced by obscuration, if any. His measurements (on average) were fairly close to 54.5 ABV. But without a lab analysis of those spirits, we don't know what else, if anything, is in those rums.
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Thanks for the article. I thought I saw somewhere (Instagram or FB) that your Foggroni spec was 2/0.75/0.5? Did you change the spec at some point?
I have enjoyed the #1 in a Rum Old Fashioned.