British metal band Motörhead release dark rum

Heavy metal band Motörhead has announced the launch of a new eight-year-old Dominican dark rum, following on from the release of the band’s Röad Crew beer earlier this year.

Motörhead’s new spirit is an eight-year aged Dominican dark rum

Aged for eight years in ex-Bourbon barrels, the resulting spirit is described as having “aromas of dried fruit, vanilla, brown sugar, arrack and dark chocolate. Full-bodied and spicy with notes of chocolate, vanilla, oak and nuts, with a medium sweet, spicy finish.”

Aside from launching their new beer, the band’s drinks brand, Motörhead Drinks, also produces a wine, vodka, cider, whisky and beer.

In 2015, Motörhead teamed up with Swedish distillery Mackmyra to produce their own brand of whisky to mark their 40th year. The limited-edition Swedish single malt whisky was aged for five years in new American oak barrels and finished in oloroso Sherry oak barrels for the last six months.

In 2013 the band released a bag-in-box Shiraz modelled to look like a guitar amplifier. Like its bottled version, Motörhead’s Sacrifice Shiraz comes from South Eastern Australia.

On the official Motörhead Facebook page, the remaining members of the band said: “As with every beverage we develop, it’s been a hands-on affair with no detail left unchecked.”

The rum is produced by Sweden-based Brands For Fans, whose business manager Yvonne Wener said called Motörhead, “the most dedicated, wonderful guys one could ever ask for, and true gentlemen in every sense.”

The rum was officially released in Sweden through its monopoly on 1 December, but other markets can contact the company directly for distribution information at marketing@brandsforfans.se.

Lemmy Kilmister, who founded and fronted the rock band Motörhead, died in 2016.