Pusser's

My first thought upon landing on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands was “ooh, gotta have fish and chips”. This was satiated the next day at lunch at Pusser’s Bar & Grill. Good stuff, highly recommended. But this is where we learned about the rum of the same name. It was a 330 year old British Navy secret recipe. Each sailor was given daily rations of Pusser’s Rum to keep the men's spirits up. It acquired a nickname when the famous Captain Nelson died fighting the battle of Trafalgar. To preserve his body they filled his coffin with the booze. By the time they got back to merry ole England they found that the rum had been drained and dranked by the crew therefore the name Nelson’s Blood. The production was stopped in 1970 and remained a secret until 1979 when the British Navy agreed to a petition to divulge the recipe for limited production.