Jack Ratt Spiced Rum is produced by the fine folks at Lyme Bay Winery in Devon, made with Caribbean rum aged in bourbon barrels and spiced with nutmeg, orange peel, clove and vanilla. The name comes from Jack Rattenbury, a notorious smuggler in the West Country, and the type of fishing boat he would use to smuggle his contraband.
Although the recipe includes vanilla, it's intentionally in a supporting role here as the producers wished to avoid it "overpowering" the other flavours (as perhaps it does in some other spiced rums...).
Honey and caramel, with underlying banana-y esters. Slightly oily at points, with slowly growing spice notes at the core.
Nice, but a bit too heavy on the clove for my taste
Just had my first glass of Luger spiced rum and my last. It smelt of artificial vanilla and didn’t improve on taste, with an over powering sachrin bitter sweet after taste. This is one for the drain.
As a recent convert to dark and spiced rum I like to try new ones when able. I enjoy kraken but was surprised by the varied taste of Lugger, great taste, unusual bottle shape and nice touch with the stopper. (Batch 4)
This Spiced Rum is amazing, the taste is really good, the brown wooden stopper is nice & chunky which goes perfectly with this pirate looking bottle.
This is by far and away the best spiced rum I have ever tried. Period. I had Batch #2 which is drier than the first (apparently) - either way it blew me away. Fantastic on its own, or with the Fever Tree Madagascan Cola (or Spiced Orange, strangely).
