Ram’s Skull
Ram’s Skull is a spirits brand built by two old friends Harry (Baz) Henriques and Fred Hicks, who since leaving school, have lived and breathed hospitality. After 15 years in the industry they've worked their way through most rums and tequilas under the sun. All this important research came to use when the boys decided to turn their hand to crafting their own spirits.
It’s been a great journey for them from spinning pizzas across the country, to being restaurateurs in London and landlords of two of the most talked about pubs in the Cotswolds - The Stump and The New Inn, opening a deli and now running the family wedding barn business Cripps & Co.
How It Happened
The boys knocked on the door of Hawkridge Distillery to meet with the master distillers James Gurney and Phil Howarth - the craftsmen behind some of England’s finest spirits. The brief was to create a rum that would stand out from the pack of the rum range on their drinks menu. They took inspiration from rum brands they enjoy and put their unique twist on this legendary spirit.
The result was crafting Ram’s Skull Rum, so bold and irresistible even a proud parrot would abandon its pirate captain’s shoulder for theirs after tasting it. A blend of eight and five-year-old oak-aged barrel rums from Venezuela, Trinidad and the Dominican Republic did just that. From the success of this creation, a spiced and white rum soon followed.
The boys now had a taste for creating spirits, so they decided to reach out to Phil & James again with the proposition of sourcing a Tequila distillery they could work with.
They packed their factor 50, shades, shorts and loudest shirts and headed for Mexico to find a tequila that would be worth shouting about…
