Surely you’ve heard the rumors? There’s a new rum on the block…The Kraken. It isn’t distributed everywhere yet.

It isn’t available in Seattle, in fact. I had to convince Lynne and Casey from Krill Systems to procure a bottle for me in San Francisco! Thanks to their invaluable efforts, I now possess my own bottle of…The Kraken black spiced rum.

I’ve put it through its paces under rigorous clinical conditions here in my super-swanky cocktail testing laboratory. My review can be found alongside reviews by Captain Richard Rodriguez and Portland, Maine sailor Maya Cohen over at Richard’s BitterEnd Blog.

Click through to read our critical assessment. If you dare!