Four barrels of rum from Lunenburg’s Ironworks Distillery will spend the next 15 months in the cargo hold of the three-masted tall ship Picton Castle. “Everybody’s making jokes — ‘You’re sending rum barrels to sea and your expect them to come back whole, that’s a joke!’ But they’re pretty well secured. Some of the Picton Castle rum has already been aging in Hungarian oak barrels for a few years. Some of the proceeds from the rum will go to support the Picton Castle programs. “Just because of the history of Lunenburg, the history of the Atlantic Ocean, and the history of rum and sailing.

Source: National Post February 12, 2018 11:31 UTC