Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum

Our recipe is based on the tradition of sailors improving the flavor of their on-board rum rations. (The first nation to abolish issuing sailors daily rum was the U.S. which did so in 1862. New Zealand upheld the practice until 1990). Generally there were two ways to take the edge off rum. One was to age the liquid in wooden casks which sailors rarely bothered with. The other way was to blend in spices. This is what most sailors did and it’s what we do. Sailor Jerry was an exacting craftsman. His tattoos were precise bold and flawless. Even the riggings on his clipper ship tattoos were nautically accurate. We craft our rum to a similar standard. Every year a team of William Grant & Sons blending specialists travel to the Caribbean to inspect distilleries and identify the finest rums. The ones that make the cut are blended together to create the ideal base for our unmatched recipe of natural spices. Spiced rum is a blender’s game and it’s one we’re very good at. As a family dis