Smith and Cross Traditional Jamaica Navy Strength

Excellent. Just the right amount of funk. I get fresh cut wood, light fruit/sweet, some alcohol, "BBQ", and something else I can't quite identify on the nose (that is also present on the palate - pleasant, I just can't place it...). Quite smooth for the proof. Hints of cherry and definite molasses on the finish. Just a great rum for sipping and mixing, a decent value too. Recommend it.

This smells like jet fuel. This tastes like someone force-fed you caramel and cherries, then threw a pineapple at your face. And the finish is just funkier than Uptown. For no discernible reason, I love it...

This probably has a love it or hate it type of thing going on with the funky hogo, but I am definitely a fan. Leathery banana nose and spicy tobacco in the finish, what isn't to love? Surely a myriad of ways to mix and elevate the experience of drinking it (tiki champion), but if you're into funky, bretty beers or funky, aged meats, you'll enjoy sipping it too!

This is a must have bottle for any tiki or rum cocktail that calls for a jamacian rum!

I've never quite experienced the explosion of wafty spice that this stuff brings to the palette. I'd serve it in a flight to demonstrate the range of odd possibilities that rum makers explore, but wouldn't turn to this as a daily sipping rum. It's like an exciting girl that you can't stop thinking about, might leave your wife for, is spectacular in bed, but ultimately but you know she's nothing but a fling.

Tasted at Laka Lono on 12/26/18. How can you not love this rum? Another foundational rum for your home bar. Love it! Burnt caramel and J-funk aroma. Golden amber color. Mild honey sweetness. Notes of agricole in this.

This is powerful stuff! The nose is an assalut on your senses, bringing in lots of molasses and brown sugar. I like to drink it neat, but I can see that it is especially made to worj in coktails, with its strong smell and taste leaning towards molasses and being low on oak. Not a well rounded drink, but strong and kicking!

Pure potstill rum from Jamaica. Love Jamaican rum and this one don't dissapoint you. Nose: classic jamaican scent of raisins and banana. Taste is harsh of raisins. Not sweet at all. For sailors or for those who prefer manly drinks.

Heavy funk on the nose, overripe banana, apple juice, burnt rubber and molasses, on the palate starts as sweet pineapple marmalade with mashed banana, turning towards bitter grapefruit and molasses, simple but strong, the aftertaste is long, fruity, with an acohol afterburn. When I tasted it first time, I did not realized this is an overproof rum so I thought - quite a strong afterburn wo got here, but when I realized this is 57%, I thougt - well, the afterburn is actually more than ok. It is a young, bitter sweet wild beast, well worthy my pocket flask to spice a cup of tea on an autumn afternoon walk.

Great atuff
Vanilla finish
Oaky. And smokey and fruit notes