While its consumption is an Atlantic Canadian tradition, rum actually traces its roots back to the Caribbean of the 16th. Today, rum has grown in popularity to become much more than a sailor's delight. The quintessential Canadian blended white rum and the number one spirit in Nova Scotia. Don't expect to give your taste buds too much of a work out, the Captain charts a mainstream course without taking any chances when it comes to its established flavour profile. If reggae music gives Jamaica its voice, then Appleton Estates rum gives the island its flavour.
Distillation occurs in old copper stills, while small oak barrels are used for aging the spirit.
Rum from different years is then married and aged further in large vats. Of course, but this is really a spirit to sip, savour and discuss - neat or on the rocks. Rum and the Navy, especially the British Navy, have had a cozy relationship for centuries. He ordered that all rum rations were to be cut with water, and his men struck back by calling the new diluted mixture after Vernon's already established nickname - Old Grogram. Lamb's Dark is a modern return to a pre-Vernon style.