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Smith and Cross Traditional Jamaica Navy Strength rum

Smith and Cross Traditional Jamaica Navy Strength

Jamaica | Aged | 57% ABV | Pot Still Distilled

7.6/10
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Recommendable to most
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365 Smith and Cross Traditional Jamaica Navy Strength Ratings

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Pelican8 🇺🇸 | 10 ratings
Posted 6 months ago

Im on a British Navy Rum kick.. Pusser’s Gunpowder and then Hamilton Navy Strengh.. I thought this was along those lines, but I now know those Navy rums have a good dose of Demerara. That said this is a keeper. A less sweet and more potent Plantation. Funk galore with rotting banana nose and some tobacco and dark chocolate tones. Drinking it with a splash of water. Making me want to explore more Jamaicans..

maltpunk 🇦🇹 | 38 ratings
Posted 6 months ago

there is no cheaper ticket. This one will please mixers and sippers the same.
For me, who does not like mixed drinks that much, it was shocking how fast I went through this bottle with neat pours.
This is a bottle I will replace for sure.

Bob 🇮🇹 | 5 ratings
Posted 7 months ago

Some good funk mixability potential, makes one hell of a hurricane. Unfortunately it's a bit frisky to be had neat, and if you add water it gets really bitter really fast.

Nose: overripe tropical fruit, especially pineapple and mango.
Taste: again tropical fruit, tobacco, burnt butter, chewing gum and kimchi. Don't fact check me on that.
After taste: medium, tropical fruit and tobacco.
TLDR: pineapple left in the fridge for a couple of months.

And yes, the bottle is sexy.

Pascal 🇨🇦 | 231 ratings
Posted 7 months ago

Les rhums de la Jamaïque ne sont vraiment pas dans ma palette. Au goût épicé poivré.

Lars Renbjer 🇸🇪 | 1 rating
Posted 7 months ago

This is the rum if you would like to start exploring jamaican rum. It's powerfull, full of flavour yeat fruity with sweet vanilla notes.

Pyrat 🇺🇸 | 8 ratings
Posted 7 months ago

To funky to do it even in simple cocktails. Tiki only.

Russ 🇺🇸 | 148 ratings
Posted 7 months ago

This rum is good is so many ways. First, since it's full of funk, it's a great rum to add depth to cocktails. Next, on its own it's a pretty good sipper even you're a fan of the high ester. And lastly you can't be the value for how inexpensive it is compared to so many other rums.

IncognitoPanda 🇳🇴 | 17 ratings
Posted 8 months ago

It is a good rum, mostly, but the grassy and medicinal notes are pretty notably, which is a taste I have yet to learn to like. The funk is otherwise nice, but I can't get fully past the grass, which is a turnoff for me.

I might come back and rate this higher, but for now I can't. I will say it is surprisingly smooth and easy to drink for a 57% spirit.

Rum Time 🇺🇸 | 10 ratings
Posted 8 months ago

Smith and Cross has become an indispensable rum which will always be replaced in my bar when a bottle runs dry. This is a non-chill filtered, 114 proof beauty. This rum has exotic fruits and Jamaican funk. It has a peanut almost pecan in the pallet to me once the bottle has been open for a month or two. This rum is going to shine in tiki cocktails and it will replace every regular 2 oz pour of Jamaican 40% with just one ounce and that justifies the $40 cost in itself. Over an ice cube the rotting fruits come through, to me like nutty pear but more exotic like a fruit from a Jamaica trip. It is distilled in Jamaica and bottled in London. Amazing! Get a bottle and use it in your cocktails, or even sip it over an ice cube. This is not a neat sipper for me and my personal pallet. Recommended to make a bitter Mai Tai with 1 oz of this, 1 oz of Puerto Rican column still such as Bacardi 8, and 1 oz of campari, orgeat and lime, crushed ice, shake, double old fashioned, garnish with mint.

NoIdolsNoHeroes 🇺🇸 | 2 ratings
Posted 8 months ago

Saw a lot of people raving about this. Maybe a bit out of my depth for a first rum purchase. Incredibly strong but I kind of like it? I'm pretty sure I felt my brain reset.




Brand Details

Name: Traditional Jamaica Navy Strength
ABV: 57%
Type: Smith and Cross
Raw Material: Molasses
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Pot Still
Women leading Rum: No

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