The Real McCoy 5 year old

Profile: The The Real McCoy 5 year old at a glance

• Complex quality rum: The Real McCoy from the Foursquare Distillery
• Proclaimed the first “Supreme Champion” of its kind at ISC 2018!
• Distilled in small batches in a rare combination of pot and column stills
• Without added sweeteners, flavors or chemical stabilizers

Portrait: What makes The Real McCoy 5 year old.

With The Real McCoy Rum, documentary filmmaker and brand founder Bailey Pryor and Foursquare Master Distiller Richard Seale bring the story of Bill McCoy to life. The pioneer among the “rum smugglers” of the Prohibition era was the first to sell his Caribbean rum legally from a sailboat - outside the then three-mile limit and thus on international waters.
 
McCoy also made a name for himself because he never adulterated his rum by adding turpentine, wood alcohol or prune juice. Instead of “Booze”, “Hooch” or “Rot Gut” McCoy had real quality rum: The Real McCoy.

In his honor, the rum is produced according to the prohibition tradition in the Foursquare Distillery on Barbados: without the addition of sweeteners, flavors or chemical stabilizers, but with the finest blackstrap molasses and pure spring water.

It is distilled in small batches in a rare combination of copper pot and column stills, matured in heavily burnt bourbon barrels or sherry casks . The result? Rum, which was the first of its kind to be named “Supreme Champion” at the ISC 2018.

Is the flagship of the brand and a standard for the home bar The Real McCoy 5 year old. With dried fruits, brown sugar, roasted almonds and spices, it tastes pure or in premium cocktails.

Tasting Notes: This is how The Real McCoy 5 years tastes

• Nose: a slight sweetness with aromas of raisins and dark plums, as well as butterscotch and slightly nutty aromas
• Palate: soft and full in taste - clearly juicy dried fruits all raisins, dates and plums, then an elegant spice joins in, brown cane sugar and roasted almonds are present
• Finish: very long in the finish - pleasantly soft and harmonious with sweet and spicy hints of ripe fruit and old wood