Kraken Black Spiced Rum

Kraken Black Spiced is a spiced rum built on a Trinidadian molasses base, the light, column-distilled idiom that suits a heavily flavoured style. Trinidad's living production tradition runs to clean, fragrant rum with chocolate, caramel and vanilla notes, here taken in a darker, spiced and sweetened direction with added colour and spice.

The profile is thick and sweet: vanilla, caramel and coffee with a gentle cinnamon spice carrying through the finish. This is a sweetened, flavoured product and an honest listing should treat it as such, closer to a spiced liqueur than to an unsweetened aged rum despite the assertive 47% strength. It comes into its own as a mixer, with cola or ginger ale, or alongside dessert, where the sweetness and spice do their best work. Drinkers who already enjoy dry, barrel-driven rums will likely find it flat and sugary on its own; taken as a bold, sweet mixing spirit it does what it sets out to do.