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Hampden Estate Great House (Distillery Edition 2020)
Aged Rum — Jamaica
Reviewed
April 27, 2021 (edited September 2, 2023)
Imagine walking into a car repair shop. I’m not talking the fancy ones where you’re in the waiting room enjoying the free lattes. But the old school ones. The ones where you’re standing right outside, watching the men work on your car that’s been hoisted 10 feet off the ground. All you smell is oil and gasoline. Now imagine standing there smelling the grease, but eating sweet cotton candy at the same time.
And that there sums up this funky little rum. Forget the very notion of what you think of when you think “rum”. This is closer to a Springbank than rum. Almost like a Caroni.
I bought a small 3cl sample, namely because I wasn’t sure “funky” and my taste go together. But yeah...kinda liking this. I only took a sip...saving the rest for the weekend. But, from the one sip I took...this is a strange little pour, in a really good way. Almost like the mini-me of Caroni
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@ScotchingHard I think for me, Caroni is still top dog in rum…but I’m seeing great value in others like Foursquare and Hampton, at reasonable prices. I recently got a RumSponge 19yr Hampton which was amazing, and relatively affordable
I just found a bottle for 99.99!
@Ctrexman i can’t get over that engine oil funk taste in these (and the Caroni). The ex-scientist in me wants to run this through a mass spec or GC just to validate there wasn’t really some oil leakage from machinery
Great connotations gentlemen. Ill throw in waiting for my headers to be installed on my 1970 GTO just soaking it in. This review has sealed the deal Im buying some Hampden Rum
@cascode my very first car was a beat up old barely running Mustang. My first car out of college that I bought for $1000. I used to take it to those old school shops just because those were the only places that fixed it for cheap.
I had a Norton Commando 850 when I was in university in the 70s and there was a Triumph/Norton dealer and garage just down the street. I used to work odd jobs there in exchange for maintenance and use of his tools (yeah, British bikes - go for a ride, then spend 3 hours re-tightening everything 😋). Your review brought those smells flooding back!