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Swell de Spirits Hampden On Tour Series #8 (Limoges Spirits Festival) 2025
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Pour it and the whole room fills with nail varnish, glue and overripe banana — a full-Hampden ester bomb bottled at 64.9%. Pineapple, passion fruit and a salty-sour edge run underneath, with a little milk chocolate and cream softening the tail. It hits hot and sharp neat; a drop of water tames the burn and lets the tropical fruit through.
The community says- Huge ester punch
- Ripe tropical fruit
- But: Sharp neat
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How does Swell de Spirits Hampden On Tour Series #8 (Limoges Spirits Festival) 2025 taste?
Summarized by AI from 19 community reviews.
Loud Hampden ester bomb, hot at full proof A blend of two well-liked Hampden casks that scores high with funk lovers. Most call the alcohol a touch too sharp neat, and a few find it over-acidic.
Hampden fans and serious ester chasers
beginners — the funk and heat overwhelm
Style & occasion: Tropical & funkySipping neat
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Ranges include their upper bound: “7–8” means above 7 up to and including 8. See the full rating guide
Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by Thunderbird
This is a Hampden Mark-Blend to my taste. The nose is classic but still a bit reserved. On the palate then the full load of funkiness, as I like it from Hampden. Fruit, ester, light acidity, spice and wood. The finish can't quite hold this power, still a very good bottling!
Review by Timo Groeger
And another Hampden, but a great one :) Nayben Ester here again offers the most intense tropical fruits like banana and pineapple. But this rum also has a lot of nail lacquer and glue to offer. Yeah, I love rum.
Review by Banana Joe
I love this mix of fermented tropical fruits, esters and spices. That’s exactly my thing, here Mika hit the bullseye with the blend of C<>H (2007 Bar 1802) and the <>H 2013 Eastern Tales. I don’t really perceive the finish in the Guyana cask, maybe I have to taste the two rums of the blend separately again. The rum has a great creaminess on the palate and an endlessly long finish. Only the alcohol is a bit too sharp, but still it cracks 90 points for me.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5821 03.10.2025 Enjoying a few samples after work while listening to some heavy Psy Trance. Nose Medium intense, light wood, fruity, overripe, ester, spice, glue.. Palate Medium intense, light wood, faint smoke, fruity, overripe, ester, cinnamon, glue, light floral, faint sour. Finish Long and warm, fruits, light wood, spice, faint caramel, light pineapple. Empty glass Vanilla, light chocolate, light caramel. A very nice rum at an OK price tag in my mind.
Review by zabo
Tasted together with the reduced Franconian Tasting Gang. You can recognize the clear Hampden markers you would expect. In my opinion, it brings a bit too much sourness, which the sweetness can't quite balance.
Review by Skyfly
This cuvée is a really brilliant ester bomb! From the moment you pour it into the glass, you can smell the intense aromas throughout the room. From nose to finish, tropical fruits, esters, wood, and spices are perfectly combined and the alcohol is excellently integrated.
Review by Serge
It has far too much acidity in the mix for my taste ... both on the nose and on the palate. But otherwise all the relevant aromas are there and the palate has a great sweetness (in addition to the aforementioned acidity).
Review by LukaŽiga
8,8:On the nose, medicinal with esters, glue, nail polish, some solvents, intense, funky, fermented, overripe tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, citrus fruits, sour, vinegar, vegetal molasses with briny olive, floral, grassy, roasted wood notes with cookie dough, spicy with allspice, vanilla, meaty, bump into our nosetrils. On aeration, green apple is out, some of the fruits rotten, slightly pungent, pastry, milk chocolate, yeast, nougat join, caramelized. 9,2:On the palate, the attack is sweet, balanced, yet slightly funky with medicinal notes like esters, fermented, overripe tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, citrus fruits, sour, later passion fruit, maracuja, yellow and dried fruits, dairy hints, buttery, molasses is sweet with honey, vegetal with briny olive, grassy and the wood is roasted with burnt sugar, pastry, caramelized, cookie dough, spicy with allspice, ginger, vanilla.When the rum is well oxidized, it becomes slightly soapy. 8,9:The finish is long, dry&tannic, medicinal, funky, chemical, fruity with fermented tropical, citrus, red fruits, dairy, sweet roasted wood notes, spicy, smoky and vegetal molasses, floral.
Review by TheJona'Spirits
Tasting at the Limoges Spirits Festival 2025. 👃 Okay, we're definitely at Hampden, winning combo of ester + pineapple + banana, all nicely overripe and funky as hell. All kinds of acetone, varnish, glue liquid. A fruity fermented and acidic aspect (passion fruit, pineapple, lemon). Well salted olive brine. A bit of sweetness on a very light touch of milk chocolate with cream. The alcohol is still quite lively. 😋 It's lively and warm! Watch your taste buds, it tends to burn them on the first sip 🤯 Adding a drop of water works well here. Fermented tropical fruits, esters, Jam funk. Banana, pineapple, mango, lemon. All kinds of drinkable varnishes (if that exists), peppery and spicy spices. A softer and more pleasant side on bitter almond paste pastry. and sweet. ⛳ Long, a bit calmer, tangy and sweet pineapple, the overripe fruits are more subdued. Pastry side with caramel cream sprinkled with milk chocolate. 💡 Quite lively but evolves positively over time. A very good full Hampden Jamaican blend coming from 2 very good juices tasted separately (C<>H 2007 from bar 1802 and <>H 2013 from restaurant Constantia). The Guyana cask finish doesn't seem remarkable to me, maybe on this very slightly pastry aspect.
Review by TheJackDrop
Tasted at the Lille gin show, under the table! Of course, the big slap of esters is there, as is the fruit, it's fat and very ripe. But there's also some nice spice and a little milk chocolate that adds sweetness at the end of the profile.
Review by Romain de L
Interesting blend - even more so since I tried both components of said blend separately. Conclusion : the parts are better than the sum on this case. The nose is interesting but a bit flat and the taste is slightly bitter. All Hampden markers are there though and it is a very pleasant drink !
Review by BnBrt
Not very funky, pure Hampden: banana, model glue, burns the nose a bit. Attack too straightforward, alcohol a bit aggressive. Then it dilutes onto ripe fruit with a little acidity. A bit too bitter for my taste but a very nice length.
Review by Johannes
Super Hampden!
Review by EspritRhum
Very good blend. Is it a blend between the C<>H 1802 and the <>H Constantia? I like it a lot!
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17 bottles logged by 17 collectors.
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What did the community pay for Swell de Spirits Hampden On Tour Series #8 (Limoges Spirits Festival) 2025?
Community paid 120–159 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 153 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
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Details about Swell de Spirits Hampden On Tour Series #8 (Limoges Spirits Festival) 2025
A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Swell de Spirits, at 64.9%.
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