Bootlegger's Bay Rum is one of the best bay rums I have tried and it is a staple in my rotation. It has a great balanced scent, not too clovey and not too sweet. It has a little bit of burn and has glycerine in it so it makes your skin feel great. So, I know what you're thinking... "Where can I buy a bottle of this awesome juice?" Well there's good news and bad news. First, the bad news. You can't buy it. It is not commercially available. The good news is, you can make it yourself (it's called Bootlegger's for a reason!). Who do we have to thank for coming up with this awesome juice? Our very own: OkieStubble. Maybe he wasn't the first to make it (not sure), but he gave it the Bootlegger's name, and made it a part of B&B lore. Here is how to make some for yourself!
Bootlegger's Bay Rum
1/3 Pinaud Clubman Virgin Island Bay Rum
1/3 Master Bay Rum
1/3 Superior 70 Bay Rum
I had previously been mixing Pinaud and Master together, and that mix is great. But OkieStubble offered up the addition of Superior 70. I read this in one of his posts back in Nov 2011. Unfortunatley, my Walgreens does not carry Superior 70 (it can be found there, regionally) and I had no good local source for the product. OkieStubble recently PIF'd me a bottle of Superior 70, and I could not believe the difference it made. I'll never look back. I'll be using Bootlegger's forever!
The beauty of Bootlegger's is that it is cheap! A 12oz bottle of Pinaud VIBR is $8 (Walgreens), a 15oz bottle of Master BR is $9 (Sally Beauty) and a 12oz bottle of Superior 70 BR is $2 (Walgreens). So for a total of about $20 you can make up a mega batch of 36oz of Bootleggers. That's about 55 cents per ounce! You can't even buy cheap drug store after shaves like Aqua Velva and Skin Bracer that cheap. And just to quickly compare, Ogallala BR is $2.5 per ounce (4oz bottle is $10 at WCS).
I recently restored one of my vintage barber bottles (replaced the cork) so I could more properly store it. And I thought, this awesome product can't just sit on the shelf all naked, it needs a label fitting of its heritage. So I created the labels that I put on my bottle. I ran out of Pinaud VIBR, so I couldn't make enough to fill my 16oz bottle. But I'll be going to get some more soon!
And, since I know someone is going to ask... here are the labels I made for it:
I definitely encourage you all to try Bootlegger's Bay Rum, if you can find the
three bay rums locally. Even if you have to spend a bit more to order them
through the mail, it is still well worth it. If anyone else has tried it, I'm
curious if you love it as much as I do.
Bootlegger's Bay Rum
1/3 Pinaud Clubman Virgin Island Bay Rum
1/3 Master Bay Rum
1/3 Superior 70 Bay Rum
I had previously been mixing Pinaud and Master together, and that mix is great. But OkieStubble offered up the addition of Superior 70. I read this in one of his posts back in Nov 2011. Unfortunatley, my Walgreens does not carry Superior 70 (it can be found there, regionally) and I had no good local source for the product. OkieStubble recently PIF'd me a bottle of Superior 70, and I could not believe the difference it made. I'll never look back. I'll be using Bootlegger's forever!
The beauty of Bootlegger's is that it is cheap! A 12oz bottle of Pinaud VIBR is $8 (Walgreens), a 15oz bottle of Master BR is $9 (Sally Beauty) and a 12oz bottle of Superior 70 BR is $2 (Walgreens). So for a total of about $20 you can make up a mega batch of 36oz of Bootleggers. That's about 55 cents per ounce! You can't even buy cheap drug store after shaves like Aqua Velva and Skin Bracer that cheap. And just to quickly compare, Ogallala BR is $2.5 per ounce (4oz bottle is $10 at WCS).
I recently restored one of my vintage barber bottles (replaced the cork) so I could more properly store it. And I thought, this awesome product can't just sit on the shelf all naked, it needs a label fitting of its heritage. So I created the labels that I put on my bottle. I ran out of Pinaud VIBR, so I couldn't make enough to fill my 16oz bottle. But I'll be going to get some more soon!
And, since I know someone is going to ask... here are the labels I made for it:
I definitely encourage you all to try Bootlegger's Bay Rum, if you can find the
three bay rums locally. Even if you have to spend a bit more to order them
through the mail, it is still well worth it. If anyone else has tried it, I'm
curious if you love it as much as I do.
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It has seemed a shame that we are the only ones enjoying this delightful elixir. If you ever run out of and need more Superior 70, just holla atcha boi... 
