Hampden Estate The Younger LROK 5 Year 2016

The Younger is a five-year-old Hampden from the LROK marque — and Drinkhacker gave it an A, calling it a stellar sipper he'd be tempted to mix with if it weren't a criminal offense. Hampden Estate in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, is the funkiest distillery on earth, its process unchanged since the 18th century: wild fermentation lasting up to two weeks in vats that are a two-century-old bacterial micro-habitat, dunder and muck-pit additions, double-retort copper pot stills, tropical aging. The Younger is LROK — Light Rum Owen Kelly, a high-ester marque running 200 to 400 grams per hectoliter — distilled in 2016, aged five years in ex-bourbon oak at the estate, and bottled in 2021 at 47% ABV (94 proof) with no sugar, color, or additives, in a limited release alongside that year's Great House. Drinkhacker found it light in color and youthful but powerful and fun: a racy nose of barrel char, ultra-ripe fruit, and green grass, then a soothing palate of lingering oak and vanilla where the fruit reads refreshing rather than overripe — coconut, banana, peach — with a slow fade of vanilla and brown sugar. Expect the LROK signature in its youth: bright, fruity, and lively rather than dense and savory. Honest note: a limited release from 2021, and the estate's own look at its young rum — for the Hampden fan who wants to taste the LROK marque that anchors the 2023 Great House on its own. Neat, or in a Daiquiri worth committing the crime for.

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