Man O War Gunpowder Rum

Ben Simpson, of Motel Bar in Wellington, New Zealand is the man behind Man O'War Gunpowder Rum which he has been making since 2007. He blends four different Caribbean rums and infuses them with chilli, pipe tobacco and the kind of old-fashioned gun powder used in muzzle loading muskets. After a two-week infusion the rum is strained, hand-bottled and wrapped in paper. The bottles are all recycled bottles - i.e. they once held something else in Ben's bar. The female pirates that grace the brown paper bottle wrapping change with every batch.

Bars around the world now proudly display bottles of Man O'War rum after procuring via an online (Facebook) bartering process. Bottles have usually been transported by one of Ben's friends on their travels, this latest bottling came to us via that champion of all things Kiwi, Jacob Briars. View less