Cruzan Black Strap Rum Size:750 ml Added to the Branca lineup

Added to the Branca lineup in the 1960's around the same time fashionistas were ordering Fernet Branca with a splash of mint syrup

blended together

and one from local Sicilian lemons

with all the complexity of a perfectly ripe pear

Bone dry with a long finish and charcoal undertones

Cruzan Black Strap Rum Size:750 ml Added to the Branca lineupProduced as an homage to the image of old Caribbean Navy style rums, Cruzan Black Strap is a lightly aged column still rum from St. Croix that is flavored and colored to evoke an almost impossibly dark, heavy, and foreboding rum. Toasty aromas of molasses, black coffee and road tar, then bittersweet oatmeal stout ale, licorice, dark cocoa, and pipe tobacco. Palate sweeter and dark chocolate like; at midpalate, tastes of bacon fat, oak resin and creamy