The Rum Mercenary & Kintra Hampden Sample Seventeen (Work in Progress)

Fruity, funky, youthful Hampden rum adventure.

Intense fruit esters
Sweet and funky profile
Good value for money
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Sample Seventeen is a cask-strength Jamaican rum with potent ester, pineapple, and banana notes. Its vibrant flavor surprises with both fruitiness and sweetness, while remaining complex yet raw.

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    How does this rum taste?

    Sample Seventeen from the Hampden distillery in Jamaica is a bold expression selected by The Rum Mercenary & Kintra. Distilled from molasses in pot stills, it has been aged for 1 year and 9 months, offering a vibrant profile with potent esters, pineapple, and banana notes, underscored by a hint of vanilla. Bottled at cask strength with a 60.5% ABV, this limited release features only 150 bottles. Feedback highlights its fruity intensity and sweetness, but also notes its youthful sharpness. The blend of LROK, HGML, and DOK marks creates an intriguing, though raw, complexity that leaves enthusiasts eager for future, more mature releases.

    Aroma

    Ester Pineapple Solvents Overripe

    Taste

    Ester Pineapple Overripe Banana

    How is this rum rated?

    8.2/10 29 reviews

    Très caractéristique de la Jamaïque. Funky. Concentré. Puissant. Long. Du plaisir.

    Quelle claque ! Un blend de hampden qui ne laisse pas indifférent. Tous les marqueurs sont là. Et le rapport qualité prix est excellent.

    You can taste that it’s still pretty young, but value for money it’s a hard to beat HD blend (especially at todays prices). Esters and glue, I like it. Keeps lingering for quite some time. A bit of time makes it sweeter and smoother. The shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S 🍌

    Sehr leckerer Hampden mit tollem PLV. Fruchtig und überraschend süß. Das Alter merkt man ihm etwas an, bin daher sehr gespannt auf die ältere Version.

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    Details about this rum

    Country
    Distillery
    RumX ID
    RX15533
    ABV
    60,5%
    Category
    Pot Still Rum
    Made from
    Molasses
    Distillation
    Pot Still
    Age
    1 years 9mo
    No. of bottles
    150
    Bottle volume
    70cl
    Price range
    <100€
    Type of spirit
    Rum
    The Rum Mercenary & Kintra • Hampden 1yr &nbsp; 60,5% Sample Seventeen (Work in Progress)

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    The Hampden distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Hampden have been reviewed 16,538 times with an average of 8.4/10.

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