Albert Dock · Small Batch
The Rum.
Inspired by the Caribbean trade routes that built this city. Distilled with the same bloody-minded craft that defines us.
The Story
Liverpool and rum have always been inseparable.
The phrase “the real McCoy” comes from a man who refused to cut his rum. We started in his wake.
For three centuries, rum arrived into this port from the Caribbean, carried on trade winds across the Atlantic, unloaded at the docks, and traded across the north of England. By the late 1700s, Liverpool was handling more rum than any other British port. The city was built on it.
Then came Prohibition, and a man named Bill McCoy. A Florida shipbuilder turned rumrunner, McCoy refused to dilute his cargo or pass off cheap blends as something better. His rum came off the boat exactly as it left Jamaica. Customers started asking for “the real McCoy” and the phrase outlived him.
We picked up where he left off. Our rums start life on single estates in the Caribbean, shipped raw to Albert Dock and finished in Liverpool in ex-bourbon casks, ten yards from the water, under the same railway arches that sheltered contraband a century before us.
No blends. No additives beyond what belongs there. Nothing that cannot be justified on the label. Each bottle is signed, numbered, and small-batch. If McCoy wouldn’t pour it for a friend, neither would we.
How we make it
Single estate. Finished in Liverpool.
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Single estate origin
We source from single estates in the Caribbean. No blended neutral spirits. One origin, one character.
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Shipped to Albert Dock
The raw spirit travels the same route rum has taken to Liverpool for three centuries. Some traditions are worth keeping.
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Cask rested in Cheshire
Finished in ex-bourbon casks at our bonded warehouse in Cheshire. Time and wood do the rest.
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Hand numbered
Every bottle is signed off by the still-master. Each batch is small. When it is gone, it is gone.
Two expressions. One obsession.
Hand-numbered, small-batch, and signed at the dock.
