When you exit the St. Thomas airport, you are greeted with a sample of Curzan Rum. Then when you get off the ferry in St. John, you get…another sample of Curzan Rum! Not that I’m complaining at all! But on my second trip to St. John, I was happy to find a new store had opened up. It was a “Pour Your Own Rum Bar” featuring a locally made Rum: Bones Rum! Now usually I’m not a fan of dark rum mainly as its not great on its own, but Bones is smooth and tastes good every way you want to try it! And try it I did!
You see, the “pour your own” concept is that you pay for the mixer, in my case Pina Colada, and then you can pour in as much rum as you’d like. As long as you are still at the bar, and as long as you still have something in your drink, you can “add a little more to it”. Which of course meant, every few sips, I was adding more rum, until my drink was almost 100% rum. Man was it good!
I also fell in love with the bottle, packed with Pirate flags in a unique bottle, with its own little black ribbon around the top makes it seem so tropical! Bottles were in the $20 range, and is only sold on the islands. Sadly, the shop on St. John closed, but look for the other location on St. Thomas!
Also I wanted to note I was lazy and forgot to take photos, so instead got these from the official Facebook page.
Souvenir Saturday is an every-other week series on the items that represent travel memories.
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