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Noctivagant
Dark Rum
46% ABV | 50cl
£11.00 – £38.00
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Description
Molasses-based, pot-distilled rum with time in baby casks gives mellow woody notes alongside our unique brand of fruity, ester-full funk.
Dark Rum | ABV 46%
Dark Rum ABV 46%
Molasses-based, pot-distilled rum with time in baby casks gives mellow woody notes alongside our unique brand of fruity, ester-full funk.
name meaning
Noctivagant
‘Wanderer in the night’
This dark rum mirrors its namesake; inspired by the tropics while clearly created far, far away. Many of our favourite rums are Carribbean origin – this is our attempt at a homage.
We meandered off for much of our method in search of punchy, funky fruit flavours. Intentional imperfection is what gives this rum an unmistakable character – dark, rich treacle sweetness from the molasses base with a plethora of tropical, sunshiney fruits, accompanied by some offbeat notes.
TASTING NOTES
Fruity, woody, funky.
A mellow brown hue - achieved purely from cask. No caramel colouring here.
Tropical, banana, dark brown sugar, funk plus wood
Has bite with underlying sweetness.
A pleasant banana toned fruity tang with earthy wood notes
Conclusion
Big flavour rum that packs a funky yet woody punch
KEY INGREDIENTS & METHOD
Molasses base - the entire essence of sugar cane condensed into sticky flavoursome goo
A byproduct of sugar making, Molasses originates from sugar cane, which is pressed through rollers, extracting cane juice. This juice is refined, effectively separated into cane sugar, water and molasses. Molasses is where most of the tastiness ends up! And distilling further concentrates flavour. Every 100kg of good quality sugarcane produces 4-7kg of molasses and 1 bottle of Vagant uses 1kg of molasses, so that’s all the flavour from 18kg of cane! A lot goes into one bottle.
One simple
but pretty outstanding ingredient
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dunder pit
Inspired by the funk unique to Jamaican rums
Our fermenters are never dry because we never completely empty them. When a fermentation reaches 11% abv, we take around four fifths out, and run it through our still. The last fifth remains and we add fresh molasses and water.
At the end of the distillation, we take what’s left in our still (stillage/pot ale/DUNDER), which is still pretty flavoursome, and throw it back into our fermenters too. And the process starts over. In doing this our own bacteria and yeast blend are always being fed, kind of like a sourdough. This allows for complex flavours to build over time and gives our rum its own unique ‘funk’.
Pot-style distillation
Less ‘purifying’ than a column distillation to keep all the flavour on offer in the liquid.
It’s in the water – We emulate a Carribean water profile by adding various minerals to give it the same PH, hardness and mineral content of water found there.
Local yeast strain – We fermented with our own yeast strain cultured from North East flora.
Warm fermentation
Emulates the conditions of a warmer climate – higher temperatures create more ‘stress’ which creates flavourful esters.
AGING DISGRACEFULLY?
Variety for complexity
We use barrels from different origins, various former uses and levels of char to mature our rum. This gives us a more complex flavours in our final rum – balancing the grassy, farmhouse, ester heavy funk that comes from a young, sourmash product alongside the sweet vanilla, candied sugar and oak from our casks.
Every drop has spend time maturing
If you cask age at 63.5% then let down to drinking strength with fresh water, you’re literally watering down the flavour. The water you’re bringing the booze down to drinking strength with is providing nothing flavour-wise. So we ensure that 100% of the product in the bottle has spent time in barrel.
The baby method …
We age for a shorter time than industry standard using smaller (baby) barrels. These barrels allow for more interaction between the liquid and wood thus a deeper colour and imparting of woody flavour in less time. We add no colouring to our rum; it is entirely derived from wood. No caramel additives here.
Time in ‘baby’ casks
No sugar, no shite - a proper rum.
If we’ve added it we’ve told you about it
Dark Rum | ABV 46%
Dark Rum ABV 46%
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