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English Harbour 5-Year rum

English Harbour 5-Year

Antigua and Barbuda | Aged | 40% ABV | Column Still (1-4) Distilled

6.5/10
196 ratings
Tasty, but not quite great
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196 English Harbour 5-Year Ratings

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Stefan Persson (PREMIUM) 🇸🇪 | 507 ratings
Posted almost 6 years ago

I’m a fan of English Harbour rum and this one doesn’t disappoint me.
This rum must be the best you can get to this ridiculous low price. I haven’t found anyone that can compete so far.
It has also been on Forbes list of the ten best rums in the world and gold award winner in 2005.

Today there’s only one remaining distillery in Antigua which is the Antigua Distillery Ltd (ADL). It was founded when some local rum shop owners got together in 1929 mainly to streamline purchasing and management of the molasses and to get better control over the production, and three years later the company saw the light of day.
1933 they moved to the new built distillery on Rat Island in St. John. Then they had a 4-column copper Savalle Still. At that time the molasses was bought locally.
In the beginning the owners blended and bottled the rum under own label to sell in their shop. It was first in 1947 they released a joint rum, the Cavalier.
In 1991 they replaced the Savalle still with a new 3-column copper John Dore still, and just three years later the English Harbour Rum was released named after the harbour in the south of the island which Admiral Horatio Nelson and the English fleet used during the 18th century.
Today there’s no sugar cane plantation in Antigua instead the molasses is bought from Dom. Rep. and Guyana. After arrival it’s fermented in open-top fermenters were the added yeast marries with wild yeast.
The 5yo was successfully released 2001.
The included rum is aged in former bourbon and Tennessee whiskey barrels between five and eight years before blended and bottled at ABV 40%.
The aroma is nice and I recognize vanilla, oak and some fruits. In the mouth and palate I recognize the same flavors but there are also some smokiness and spices. The finish which is medium long goes the same way.
Overall a very well balanced rum and a perfect everyday rum to an exceptionally low price.
Pictures: My ADL shelf & My opened bottle out in the Stockholm archipelago.

Rumnoobie 🇺🇸 | 3 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

I think it has a very pleasant nose. Lots of molasses and vanilla. Spicy, but not artificially spicy. Taste wise, I'm not sure that I'm capable of picking out the individual notes, but it's very pleasant. It has a fairly long finish, pleasant as well. My feelings on this one may change as I mature, but I've spent more on rums that I enjoyed a lot less!

A.Greenleaf 🇺🇸 | 51 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

I like this rum. I think a few people are being a little overly critical on this one. Good dry whisky like taste at first and then undeniable rum finish. Not my very top shelf but the next shelf down from that.

Dustin Doran 🇺🇸 | 78 ratings
Posted almost 10 years ago

For a five year aged rum I was quite surprised. It was smooth with a hint of spice; woody and semi-tannic with good legs and nice body. Definitely one I seek out.

Rico 🇺🇸 | 11 ratings
Posted 29 days ago

I like this for Tiki drinks. It has a drier taste to me. I use this instead of other dry rums like, Clement VOSP, Plantation Dry, and other Martinique rums, rums that have more a dry whiskey taste that is needed for a Tiki drink and then I add another rich or more funky rum to the drink. It is a good all around rum. I have trouble finding it.

Thorsgaard 🇩🇰 | 151 ratings
Posted 2 months ago

English Harbour 5 YO
Duft: honning, sød frugt, let krydderi - 4
Smag: kraftig krydderi (Spice), let sødme - 3
Total: 7

revsteph 🇺🇸 | 368 ratings
Posted 11 months ago

Tasted at Laka Lono July 17, 2022
This is not horrible. It tastes like a small batch homemade rum.
Bartender Soto says this rum "cocktails well" and he is correct.

Stig Wolff (PREMIUM) 🇩🇰 | 182 ratings
Posted 1 year ago

En rigtig fin harbour rom med fine noter appelsin og vanilje.
Fin rom til prisen.

mc 🇺🇸 | 81 ratings
Posted 1 year ago

English Harbor 5yr is delicious. A bit of oak and molasses. Smooth enough to drink on the rocks. A nice local choice at the all inclusive.

Thomas Breuning 🇩🇰 | 243 ratings
Posted over 1 year ago

Duft af røde bær og fersken. Dog lidt sprit. Smag af vanilje. En smule tør. Ikke så bred i smagen, men en smule krydret. English Harbour har generelt nogle fornuftige serie, som ikke er high end, men heller ikke dårlige. (5. december 2021 i 1423)

Peter 🇸🇪 | 94 ratings
Posted almost 2 years ago

Helt okej rum. Lite spritsmak i början men det försvinner med lite luftning. God smak om än lite kort.




Brand Details

Name: 5-Year
Years Aged: 5
ABV: 40%
Type: English Harbour
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Column Still (1-4)
Women leading Rum: No

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