Rest & Be Thankful 2012 Monymusk MDR is a 9-year-old rum produced in Jamaica from local molasses.
It was distilled in an iron still in 2012 by the Clarendon distillery, owned by the National Rum of Jamaica and part-owned by Maison Ferrand. The rum was then placed in American oak barrels for tropical and continental aging. It was then repatriated to Scotland and bottled for Rest & Be Thankful, a British brand created by Fox Fitzgerald in 2012.
Bottling took place in March 2022, without cold filtration and in its natural color. This was the first small batch, delivering a total of 6076 bottles to the market.
Phil Gringo
This rum is quite pleasant to taste. But it seems really young with its very pale color and not very pronounced flavors. There's a slight hint of pineapple and the finish is quite long, a little vanilla but above all spicy. Personally, I taste all my samples blind and in 3 batches to let the contents oxygenate. I would never have guessed that this was a Jamaican rum, and I find it lacking in flavor and character.