One of the oft-told, erroneous tales about Royal Navy rum is that Britain’s navy used the “gunpowder test” to test a rum’s strength before the invention of the Sikes Hydrometer in 1816.
The Myth of Royal Navy Rum and the Gunpowder…
One of the oft-told, erroneous tales about Royal Navy rum is that Britain’s navy used the “gunpowder test” to test a rum’s strength before the invention of the Sikes Hydrometer in 1816.