AH Riise Royal Danish Navy 40%

AH Riise Royal Danish Navy 40%

AH Riise Royal Danish Navy is an exclusive rum, created as a tribute to one of the most significant and enterprising Danes, pharmacist and councilor AH Riise, who lived and worked on the former Danish West Indies in the period 1838 to 1878.

Scent: Orange, spice, licorice, banana, gum – which is a normal rum scent, especially in Navy rum.
Taste: Oiled, candied apples, coconut, sweetness and spice in harmony. Finishes with apricot.
Aftertaste: Sweet and spicy, long, pleasant and traces on the tongue.

About the Manufacturer:

The first Pharmacy at Skt. Thomas became a Cand. Pharm Albert Heinrich Riise, who by royal decree in 1838 was given the privilege to run a pharmacy in the capital of the Danish West Indies, Charlotte Amalie. AH Riise originally came from Ærø, where he was born on 11 September 1810 in Brogade no. 28 in Ærøskøbing, as the son of a merchant who was also a captain (Jens Christian Riise)

After graduation, in Copenhagen, at the Kgl. Vajsenhus Apotek, AH Riise left for the West Indies, where on 27 January 1842 he was married in Frederikssted on St. Croix to Heriette Marie Worm. In their 40th year, the 2 spouses lived a rare happy life and raised 13 children together. The following year in 1843, AH Riise built St. Thomas Apotek at the address Dronningensgade no. 6 in Charlotte Amalie.

The first year

Riise's first year as a pharmacist was financially meager, but he fought on undaunted and through hard work, and several business trips in the following years to North America, including New York, AH Riise succeeded in establishing important contacts with several leading trading houses, as well as making large purchase of goods for the pharmacy. Provided with a large stock of all kinds of goods, especially pharmaceutical products, St. Thomas Apotek is known on all the surrounding Caribbean islands as the place where you can find anything you might need for any household.

Later, AH Riise traveled extensively in the West Indies, and gradually visited the neighboring islands as far as Trinidad, partly for the sake of business, partly to collect natural resources.

From these trips, AH Riise often brought rare plants and herbs to St. Thomas and planted these on his return. Riise had a keen interest in botany and used the exotic plants and fauna of the West Indies with great skill to produce pharmaceutical, alcoholic and cosmetic products. among others the well-known Riise's Bay Rum (A kind of scented water/Perfume) which was a strong contributor to AH Riise's later prosperity.

Thus, from AH Riise's Apothecary, rum and bitters from the West Indies were traded, which were especially used as medicine against stomach ailments and other ailments. AH Riise eagerly participated in everything that happened at St. Thomas, especially regarding business life. Thus he was Director of the Bank of St. Thomas and Marine Asylum and in St. Thomas Gas Co.