Supply Reserve Depot Jar (Rum Jar)

[Sapper740]

Jim, you might remember in the early to mid Seventies when the CF stopped issuing rum rations and the federal government sold its not insignificant rum reserves to the various Provincial Liquor Control Branches. B.C.'s LCB diluted the rum to 50% ABV instead of the regular 80 Proof or 40% ABV. They put the rum in 40 oz. bottles, slapped a cheap blue label on them and sold them for $4.25 limit two per person. My father was a confirmed Scotch drinker and didn't want his so he gave them to me so I had 4 bottles of the stuff. It wasn't good rum but it did the job.

[browningautorifle]

It wasn't good rum

You got that right... That must be why we went to LPO Captain Morgan's. I don't recall buying any of that, I drank Wisers' delux back then anyway... We never stopped issuing, it was always available during sub zero weather in the field at a rate of two ounces per man per day. CQs changed that saying to "an ounce per man per day", wonder why? It took until I was posted to Wainwright teaching recruits in winter to find out it was two ounces.