Stolen Rum

This is my first overproof rum and if every other bottle out there smells and taste like this one, I'm turned off for overproof rum for the rest of my life. No one should call this aroma, but a stench. The first thing comes to mind is burning tires or rubber take your pick. Then through that highly chemical note, you get a big whiff of mashed garlic or even little off mashed garlic. Through the alcohol cloud there is a hint of mashed banana faintly. In the beginning of the flavor, it feels like licking the inside of a burnt tire and biting down on heavily charred oak. The dry note from the oak is so strong here. Seriously on the finish is a rotting wood notes or fermenting veggie notes. Supremely disappointing experience for a supposed 'six year old pot still' rum. I'd use it as a people repellant or a punishment tool for my worst enemy.

Light amber color. This stuff is probably not for a novice rum drinker. The nose has over-ripe bananas, mango, vanilla ice cream, and a little menthol. The palate has caramelized bananas, pineapple, papaya, raisins, candied orange peel, green apple peel, oak, with hints of gasoline, petroleum jelly, and burnt coffee. The finish has vanilla extract, tropical fruit medley, oak, petroleum jelly, and wet leaves. When I first cracked the bottle I found this extremely enjoyable. When I came back for a second pour the next day the gasoline note seemed more pronounced, but not dominant or off-putting. This is the first thing I've tried out of Hampden Estate. It's incredibly complex and challenging but makes me want to seek out Hampden's own bottlings.

This is THE rum that really got me interested in the different styles and expressions of rum, and it still holds up. Powerful estery nose, citrus, bananas, brown sugar and alcohol astringency. The palette is a wallop of over ripe bananas, vanilla, pineapple, with a thick and luscious mouth feel. For those wanting to experience an OP rum, this will run them running and screaming. But for the drinker with an open palette, and a thirst for complicated and BIG aromas and flavors, this is recommended.

The nose is sweet and nice it drinks banana little bit of menthol but it was sitting in a car tire for a week The rubber lingers and lingers and lingers and if you try to drink some water to get rid of it it makes it so much worse.

For rum this is amazing. Complex like a scotch. Funky cheese. Bananas. Very complex. Good.

A little warm, but a very good aged rum. Hogo, ripe banana.