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Hampden Gold
A curious explorer-friendly Jamaican pot still rum with soft funk, light tropical fruit and a quick finish. Most RumX members see Hampden Gold as a budget mixer rather than a sipping bottle.
Aggregated from 35 community reviews.
- Good price-performance
- Gentle funk notes
- Great for mixing
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Stern Magazine Details about Hampden Gold
A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, distilled by Hampden, at 40%.
How does Hampden Gold taste?
Aggregated from 35 community reviews.
Budget-friendly soft Hampden funk A curious explorer-friendly Jamaican pot still rum with soft funk, light tropical fruit and a quick finish. Most RumX members see Hampden Gold as a budget mixer rather than a sipping bottle.
Cocktail enthusiasts who want an affordable way to bring real Jamaican funk and esters into highballs, tiki drinks or simple pineapple-juice mixes.
Neat-sipping purists looking for deep complexity, long finish or the intense high-ester punch of Hampden’s higher-strength bottlings.
How is Hampden Gold rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict , 6.0 lands squarely in the "Pleasant" band. 14% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 14% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Rum reviews
A selection of the most popular reviews from our community. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Stefan Persson
Overall a rum with a rather typical Jamaican funky nose, but very soft and light at the palate that my son offered me a glass of. It’s probably a quite short aged golden colored rum produced by the Hampden Estate in Jamaica.
Review by Hogo Hobo
Very pleasant surprise: fairly quiet nose (by hampden standards) palate was mineralic, dry, clean and superb grapefruit, with touches of olive and salt to finish. Not rough at all. Distillate still delivers at 40%.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Try and mix this one with pineapple juice yuuuuum.
Review by MarcT
Only for mixing, to rough otherwise fory taste.
Review by Steffmaus🇩🇰
Tasted this in March 2021, and to me this likely goes better as a mixer, than drinking neat. Estery and spicy in the nose, and taste-notes of tropical fruits, which disappears fast and with very little lingering flavor
Review by Pavel Spacek
Pure distillate without esthers and everything that describes Hampden. Ooops
Review by Christoph
Hampden Funk zum Sparpreis. Hier wird klar das PLV mit bewertet und zum mixen nicht übertrieben teurer Cocktails ist dieser ideal.
Review by Oliver
Nice entry level HampdenHas but little character. Relatively thin and short finish compared to its big brothers. Good PLV.
Review by Montana
Ein leicht süßer und öliger Geruch, etwas Ester. Der Geschmack ist zuerst leicht süß, wird dann schärfer, ganz angenehm. Der Nachklang ist eher kurz.
Review by Portman
Unusually arbitrary for a Hampden.
Review by Han
Very good for mixing - very very good price performance
Expert reviews
Reviews from RumX's blog partners, independent experts who have tasted, evaluated, and described this rum..
Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
"It could also replace Myers's in drinks where you maybe do not need the extra sweet treacle molasses flavour. This really is a very good example of a classic Jamaican gold mixing rum and one I would recommend you seek out. It offers a very punchy little alternative to Appleton..."Read full review →
Expert review by Rum Diaries Blog
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Community purchases
47 bottles logged by 39 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
51% opened, 12 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Hampden Gold?
Community paid €8–€20.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
47 purchased · 39 tasted · 3 wishlist · as of
About the Hampden distillery
The Hampden distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Hampden have been reviewed 19,442 times with an average of 8.4/10.
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