Boogie Bottom Blue & Gold Alabama Run
Boogie Bottom Blue and Gold Alabama Rum Label

$75.00

Produced and bottled in Baldwin County, Alabama by Boogie Bottom Spirits for Perdido Vineyards.  This medium-bodied rum has a brawny robust aroma and fresh botanical taste courtesy of the locally grown sugarcane from which it’s made.  The finish is smooth with a hint of vanilla.  It was created to honor the days of iron men and wooden ships, when a pint of rum accompanied the daily wage.

Blue & Gold is a proper offering to appease King Neptune, whose fury and anger regularly blows onto Alabama’s Gulf Coast, and we need to show respect for high tides and high winds. For the uninformed, many Navy vessels are made at the Gulf Coast shipyards and sailed by sailors from the coastal area. Since the days of wooden ships and iron men, the daily rum ration was a sailor’s pay as provided by the War Department. When the X-RAY ZULU flag signal was hoisted aboard Navy ships, each sailor was issued a pint of rum, and the sailors were especially concerned that it was not weak and diluted with water, hence, 100 proof rum….full pay for a full day’s work friggin’ in the riggin’, fighting foreign ships and pirates and enforcing the customs duties and stopping contraband.

SKU: 0-86987-83300-1 Category:

Description

Distilled and bottled by Boogie Bottom Spirits, Perdido, Alabama

100 Proof (US Navy Rum)

50% abv (alcohol by volume)

The Story of Blue & Gold
Jim Eddins, founder of Boogie Bottom Spirits, is a certified sea-going Marine with a traditional Navy background. So, he just had to make USN specified rum at 100 proof to express himself.

Since the days of wooden ships and iron men, the daily rum ration was a sailor’s pay as provided by the War Department. When the X-RAY ZULU flag signal was hoisted aboard Navy ships, each sailor was issued a pint of rum, and the sailors were especially concerned that it was not weak and diluted with water, hence, 100 proof rum….full pay for a full day’s work friggin’ in the riggin’, fighting foreign ships and pirates and enforcing the customs duties and stopping contraband.

At Ease, everybody. The U.S. Navy ceased paying sailors with rum so long ago that a young seaman today may not have a beer on a Navy vessel. The Chief Petty Officers Mess, may have something stronger for their coffee, and the Captain may have something to help him sleep soundly. As the official log entry on one Navy ship read, “THE CAPTAIN IS SOBER TODAY.” If you want a good drink at sea today, then take the cruise ships out of Mobile. We christen ships in Alabama with grape juice.

Some folks in Montgomery don’t understand the traditions of the sea and sailors on fighting ships. The X-RAY ZULU signal is up at Boogie Bottom Spirits in Perdido, AL about 273 ft. above Mean Sea Level in Mobile Bay. We have a long memory of salt spray, heaving and pitching decks, and howling winds in the rigging.

When John Paul Jones, father of the U.S. Navy explained to his crew how to fight a ship, he told the sailors, “… fighting a ship is like making love to a woman” (John Paul Jones had not attended sensitivity school). “First, you lay along-side, grapple fore and aft, fire a broadside and board in the smoke”. The Army would agree that is the K.I.S.S. principle of leadership.

SEMPER FI, JC

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