Review: Cruzan Black Strap Rum
Posted by Arctic Wolf on October 24, 2010
The Cruzan Rum Company is located on the Island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. The Island of St. Croix is the largest of the US Virgin islands, being approximately 28 miles long and 7 miles wide. Along with the tourism industry and one of the largest oil refineries in the Caribbean, the St. Croix economy is dependent to a large extent upon the Rum Industry as a major engine of their economic growth.
All of the Cruzan Rums are produced using a modern five column distillation method which produces a light bodied rum, the quality of which can be tightly controlled by the five column distillation. The rum is then aged in once used American oak bourbon barrels. The Cruzan Black Strap Rum is a ‘navy style’ rum which is full of molasses flavour but which is perhaps a lighter bodied rum than one would find in a typical navy rum.
The sample bottle of Cruzan Blackstrap Rum for this review was given to me by Simon Mooney, the local Brand Ambassador for Beam Global and is pictured below and to the right. It is bottled at 40 per cent alcohol by volume and is, I believe, aged for two years in the aforementioned American Oak.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
“…Cruzan Black Strap Rum is an aromatic bombshell. When I opened my bottle for the very first time, my nostrils were immediately aware of the rich molasses filled aroma in the air which contained strong accents of black coffee and dark licorice….”
You may read the entire review here:
Review: Cruzan Black Strap Rum
And remember, my aim is to help you drink better spirits… not more spirits!
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Hemogoblin said
Love this rum. Extremely smooth. I buy two bottles at a time because I give it to people that don’t like rum. I get rave reviews. Mix with cola and you get a foam at the top that makes it look like you are drinking a Guinness. It ties with Kraken for my favorite bottle.
triple•sequitur said
Darker. Stormier….
Brace yourself for the Christiansted Thunderhead. Here’s to the Dark and Stormy – that cleverly conceived balance of grainy sugarcane sweetness set against the refreshing sting of lime juice, rounded off by that third kind of heat: the effervesce…
Arctic Wolf said
That’s a nice recipe on your blog!