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Hampden Estate - Jamaica

Hampden Estate's Great House, built in 1779, once served as the rum store.

Hampden Estate, producer of unique high ester overproof rum.

Spent dunder "Muck" is aged and dried in "Graves" then fermented in the wash.

Centuries-old building houses huge crusty cedar fermentation tanks.

You can feel the history while walking among the fermentation tanks.

Molasses fermenting at Hampden Estate: love that smell.

Fermenting wash of molasses, muck and rotted fruit is distilled into high-ester rum.

After fermenting for one week and resting for another, the wash crusts over.

Watch your step! GM Mark Middleton guides us to the fruit fermentation vats.

One of several gorgeous copper pot stills and retorts used by Hampden Estate.

Detail on a Forsyth copper po still.

What comes out of Hampden Estates' stills Is not to be taken lightly.

GM Mark Middleton is the calm in a sea of change at Hampden Estate.

Science being applied to the world's most uniquely fermented rum.

Rum Fire posters proudly displayed in Hampden Estate's bottling room.

© Dave Russell 2013