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A pot-distilled rum from Hampden distillery in Jamaica. Jamaican distilleries are famous for using dunder or muck to create high concentrations of acids for use in fermentation. The end result is a menu of rums with different levels of that characteristic Jamaican "funk" and complexity.
This 11yo Jamaican rum was bottled from a single cask which yielded 245 bottles. It spent 3 years in the tropics. Distilled in 2012 in a pot still, and matured in an ex-bourbon barrel, before being bottled at 60.4% ABV.
This rum is made from OWH mark, and OWH means Outram W. Hussey, with a low concentration of esters, i.e. from 40 to 80 gr / hlpa.
The South Pacific distillery is located in Lautoka on the island of Fiji and began production in 1980. Today it is a subsidiary of the Australian brewer, the Fosters group. They operate both, pot and column stills, and is known for making a few styles of rum, from light and easy-going to intense, full bodied, Jamaica-like funky beasts.
A 2001 vintage Fiji 100% pot still rum that has been tropically aged for 2 years and the subsequent 19 years continentally before being bottled in 2023. The rum has matured in an ex-rum barrel and was bottled at an ABV of 47,3% vol. 222 bottles only.
The Foursquare distillery in Barbados was founded by the Seale family in the mid-1990s. The Seales, having bottled rum in Barbados for over five generations, own a string of traditional brands which now feature Foursquare rum as their main component.
Barbados 2002 has been distilled by Foursquare on pot still only and matured in the ex-rum cask. This Foursquare is 100% contintenaly aged. The cask yielded 208 bottles containing spirit at 49% ABV.
TDL is now Trinidad’s only rum distillery. TDL stands for Trinidad Distillers Ltd. and it’s actually the company behind the Angostura rum brand. It’s among of the Caribbean’s largest rum producers, currently capable of making 8,5 million liters of pure alcohol (LPA) annually. Much of it sold as bulk rum.
The Colours of Rum expression is a 13yo rum, distilled in a column still and aged in ex-bourbon barrels. 10 years of tropical aging. Only 256 bottles have been bottled in 2023 at 62.8% ABV.
Uitvlugt (pronounced “eye-flut”) is a village in Guyana, based on the west bank of the Demerara River. The Dutch-owned Uitvlugt Distillery was established around 1750, housing double wooden pot stills which produced a characteristically heavy rum. In 1975 the government began consolidating rum production, and this sadly saw the closure of Uitvlugt in 2000.
This is a continentally aged 30-year-old Demerara rum. Distilled in 1991, in Double Wooden Pot Still, and bottled in 2022 at 68.7% ABV. Matured in an ex-bourbon cask for 10 years and in ex-french oak for another 19 years. The cask yielded 277 bottles.
