The Real McCoy 12 year old

Profile: The Real McCoy 12 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 12 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.

The rum is made in his honor according to the Prohibition tradition Produced 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 burned bourbon barrels or sherry casks.The result? Rum, which was the first of its kind to be named “Supreme Champion” at the ISC 2018.

The Real McCoy 12 Years matures extensively at high Angels' Sharein the tropical climate of Barbados. The soft “Sipping Rum”combines complex wood and spice notes with dark chocolate, buttery caramel and orange peel.

Tasting Notes: This is how The Real McCoy 12 year old tastes like

• Nose: strong aromas of dark oak and exotic spices, followed by dark bitter chocolate and ripe stone fruit
• Palate: mouth-filling and complex strong notes of dark chocolate and butter caramel, behind them again the spicy oak wood and fresh orange peel
• Finish: very long finish with pleasantly soft tones of ripe dark fruits, paired with a slight sweetness li>