"As the interest in mixology continues to grow one of the holes in the bartender’s arsenal is a flavorful black Jamaican rum, with flavor. Since 2005 several of the popular Jamaican black rums lost much of their character as corporate acquisitions demanded more profit from existing brands and staples of the bar lost much of their appeal to the mixology community.  To meet the demand for a black Jamaican rum with character, I sourced a blend of light, very light and heavy Jamaican pot still rum from the Worthy Park Estate in Jamaica. Worthy Park Estate has been growing sugar cane and making rum since 1670. Today, they are the most efficient sugar mill on Jamaica and from their molasses they make their own rum. Everything is done on the 9,000 acre estate from growing the cane to blending the pot still distillates.  This blend of rum is imported in 1,000 liter pallet tanks at 85% ABV then diluted with filtered (reverse osmosis) well water in Westfield, NY. After being reduced to 93 proof over five days, the rum is colored with double strength black caramel made from American sugar by Sethness Caramel. Everything in this product is GMO free and contains no high fructose corn syrup or sweetener.  Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Gold Rum is colored with gold tint caramel from Sethness. In both rums approximately one liter of caramel colors 450 nine-liter cases of rum, less than three drops of caramel per 750ml bottle of rum.  Tropical florals in the nose lead to baked, ripe bananas throughout the body with a grassy finish."

-Ed Hamilton