Dead Reckoning HMS Antelope The Black Pit is a

The Black Pit is a blend of spirit from the afore mentioned three stills – run with both open and closed-fermented molasses-based wash

The sip begins with a fair amount of heat but you quickly get a lot of stewed apples

and impervious to rot – it was used in many of the 300 distilleries that once populated Guyana

5 years of tropical aging in Guyana (in an ex-bourbon cask) before heading to SA for a ‘double dose’ of Adelaide dry-aging in both a South Australian Muscat (Woodstock Winery) cask and an ex-Makers Mark bourbon cask for a further two and a half years

butterscotch

Dead Reckoning HMS Antelope The Black Pit is aThe HMS Antelope pays homage to Navy Rum with a blend of 6 year old pot still Rum from Australia (in fact Australias oldest distillery), 5 7 year old column still rum from Trinidad, 5 old pot still rum from Jamaica, 4 7year old pot and column still Rum from Guyana plus to round it off 5 year old pot and column still Rum from Barbados (Foursquare). This rum was further aged for one year in Adelaide, South Australia under Australian dry agent