Forres Park Puncheon Rum 750ml

Forres Park Puncheon is Trinidad's overproof white rum, bottled unaged at 75%, or 150 proof. It is made from molasses by Trinidad Distillers, part of the Angostura group, and takes its name from the Forres Park estate, where the Fernandes family began distilling in the early 1930s. Puncheons were the big wooden casks rum was once stored in.

It is intensely hot neat, with raw cane, grass and a little fruit under the alcohol. Treat it as an ingredient, not a sipper.

Pick Forres Park when a recipe wants a float of high-proof rum or you are making punch for a crowd. For a slightly tamer overproof, Wray & Nephew is 63%; for 151 proof with color and molasses depth, try Goslings 151.

Always dilute it: a small measure in a punch with lime, sugar and fruit juice, or a quarter ounce floated on a tiki drink. Keep it away from open flames.

More overproof and white rums are under rum. Pick it up at our Brooklyn store or get same-day delivery across NYC.