Foursquare - Cask Strength 2011 - 60%
The Foursquare Rum Distillery (and Heritage Park ) is located in the south of Barbados . It belongs to the Seale family , with 5 generations of expertise in rum making since 1820. It is one of the oldest trading houses in Barbados. At the time, Reginald Leon Seale, like other traders, was prohibited from selling rum directly to consumers under Barbados' Excise Duty Act. His solution was to establish a distribution business in Bridgetown in the early 1900s: the birth of the RL Seale brand. From 1962 to 1993, rums from ESA Field and Alleyne Arthur, including Old Brigand, Taylor's Falernum and Doorly's, completed the company's portfolio. In order to effectively consolidate the multiple brands, it was decided that ESA Field and Old Brigand would focus on the local market, where they had always done well, while Doorly would become an export brand. In 1995, under the influence of Sir David Seale, the family bought a sugar factory whose oldest building dating from 1636 was decrepit. His intuition paid off and this site became Foursquare Distillery. Today the distillery has a three-column still that it uses for lighter rums and a modern copper still for the more complex rums, which are still distilled from molasses fermented in small batches ( typically 112 barrels) and aged tropically. The rums are aged in small American white oak ex-Bourbon barrels in huge open-sided warehouses, most of which come from a distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
Foursquare's Cask Strength 2011 is part of the distillery's Exceptional Cask series. It is a blend of rums distilled in pot stills and columns. It is aged for 12 years in ex-Bourbon barrels in Barbados, then bottled Brut de Fût at 60%.
