Catalina Rum Company Dark Rum
Catalina Rum Company Dark Rum — Amid the Dusky Skies is a 1L Caribbean rum made with molasses, aged 3 years, bottled for Bluewater Grill by R6 Distillery in El Segundo, California, and available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor, San Diego, CA. The rum was developed by Bluewater Grill co-owners Jimmy Ulcickas and Richard Staunton with R6 Distillery as a tribute to Catalina Island's Prohibition-era rum-running history, and its label shows Avalon Harbor in vintage-poster style under dusky skies.
Catalina Island earned its rum-running legend honestly: through Prohibition, boats moved contraband between the island and the mainland under cover of night, and Bluewater Grill — with restaurants from Avalon and Coronado to Newport Beach — built this rum to pour that story. Amid the Dusky Skies is the nighttime half of the pair: a molasses-based Caribbean rum given a full three years in oak, then bottled up the coast in El Segundo.
Tasting profile: vanilla, caramel and tropical fruit on the nose; caramel, vanilla and toffee with cinnamon, nutmeg, dried fruit and hints of chocolate on the palate; a full-bodied finish. Browse the Catalina Rum Company brand collection, more rum, and the full spirits collection at Del Mesa Liquor.
Serving note: neat or on the rocks, in a Dark 'n' Stormy or Rum Old Fashioned — or blended with its White Rum sibling in Bluewater's Captain's Mai Tai.
What is Amid the Dusky Skies? The Dark Rum half of the Catalina Rum Company pair, named for the nighttime rum-running runs to Catalina Island.
Where is it made? A molasses-based Caribbean rum, bottled by R6 Distillery in El Segundo, California exclusively for Bluewater Grill.
How old is it? Aged 3 years in oak.
What is the bottle size? 1L, 40% ABV (80 proof).