Sailor Jerry is a spiced rum created by the famed tattoo artist and sailor 'Sailor Jerry' Collins. This is perhaps our favourite spiced rum, it makes an incredible spiced mojito!
We know that some of you out there aren't so keen on the new Sailor Jerry recipe. You can correct the flavour of the new version very easily by adding some dark sugar and vanilla essence to the bottle and giving it a good shake - it really does work!
Vanilla spice, butter, oak, cinnamon, nutmeg and ground ginger. Drying and sweet on the palate with notes of winter spice and black pepper, toffee.
2 years now since they changed it and still no revert to the old recipe, or even selling both types which would obviously benefit their sales... but then perhaps thats because it'd prove how unpopular the new stuff is!? Why they can't bring it back I don't know? As far as I know it was a UK only recipe... imagine if they released it worldwide, they'd be rolling in it... but then never under estimate the stupidity of some people... I'll be trying other brands, will never buy this new stuff again! Did when it first changed, thinking it was just a new label (which also is crap compared to the old) and was horrified! Got another bottle for a birthday or Christmas and I still have them both like 2 years later... The old stuff wouldn't last 2 weeks!
burn in hell new sailor jerrys...im on the dole and considering spending £100 on a bottle of the original Sailor Jerrys....what have u done to me!!!!!!!!
The new recipe is nothing like the original rum - all of my friends have refused to buy it now, we have switched to other spiced rum - however there is now a new rum around called 'old j spiced' which tastes almost identical to the original recipe sailor jerrys! Every who loved the old stuff must must must try this!! Bring back original sailor jerrys and you will see us all instantly switch back to our good old faithful.
If you could bottle the flavor of the floor of a tattoo parlor that has never been swept or mopped, all the dirt, sweat, blood, tears... Sailor Jerry would be it.
Go buy some Kraken Rum (In Sainsburys now!). It isnt the cheapest at £21/bottle but it certainly shows how poor Sailor Jerry has become. I was a Sailor Jerry fan. No more. They ruined it!
