Hampden Estate Rum is one of my favorite rum brands, if not my favorite. So I often pick up new-to-me expressions when I can.

In the recent auction haul I had a couple - a Habitation Velier 5 year <>H mark, and a Velier 5 year Magnum Series #1 Elliot Erwitt Edition.

#Rum #HampdenEstate #Hampden #HabitationVelier

It isn't always whisky, sometimes it's rum instead.

These are two Bedford Park bottlings of Hampden Estate Rum - a 10 year from 2014 and a 23 year from 2000.

#Rum #BedfordPark #Hampden #HampdenEstate

There is more to life than whisky - there is also rum!

I'm hosting some friends for a Raising Glasses rum tasting soon, so I popped up to Burlington Wine And Spirits to grab two new releases - the Rum Et Al Dunder Pressure Queen's Share Rum and the Matugga Golden Dhahabu. And I caved on a release I'd passed on earlier, the Perennia 27 year Caroni. I think this will have to be last in the tasting - if you've tried Caroni, you know.

I've been hunting for the Hampden Estate Rum Great House 2025 - and they had a box open on the floor, it hadn't even made it to the shelf, so I grabbed one. This continues my complete run of these releases.

The Black Tot Rum Master Blender's Reserve 2025 doesn't seem to be coming to MA, so I ended up ordering that out of London, UK. It was more affordable than the places I found in the US. I also have the run of these.

#Rum #RaisingGlasses #Hampden #BlackTot

Scotland's World Cup celebrations caused seismic earth tremors in win over Denmark - STV News
The Hampden Roar was so powerful it literally shook the earth and triggered earthquake monitors, according to the British Geological Survey.

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/hampden-roar-during-scotland-v-denmark-caused-small-earthquake

#Scotland #Seismology #WorldCup #Hampden

Last night Raising Glasses hosted a rum tasting at Burlington Wine & Spirits and it was a great line up. I ended up bringing five bottles home (actually six, but that one is special and gets its own post).

I picked up the two Rumcast Reserve releases, from The Rumcast of course, Guyana VSG and Mauritius MLMO.

From Rum Et Al I grabbed the Variable "Dunderclap" expression.

Hampden Estate is one of my favorite rum distilleries, so I had to grab the Down Island Spirits Single Cask HD 2022 bottling of their HLCF mark.

And, finally, the American Cane Banter White Rum. A great, basic white rum for like $20 - hard to go wrong.

#Rum #RaisingGlasses #RumcastReserve #TheRumcast #RumEtAl #DownIslandSpirits #AmericanCane #BanterRum #Hampden

So for once the match Scotland Vs Denmark is on terrestrial TV on BBC2. From 7:30pm.

Irony, don't think my nerves are up to watching live. We have a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
"It's the hope that kills you".

Come on ,#Scotland.! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽

#WorldCup #Scotland #Denmark #Hampden #SCODEN