Maennerhobby Krum Craft Rum

Maennerhobby's Krum is a small German rum, a three year old molasses spirit distilled on a pot still and matured in ex-bourbon wood, bottled at 42.8%. It belongs to the hobbyist end of the European small batch scene, a young pot still rum made in modest quantities for drinkers curious about home grown spirit.

The profile is simple and fruit led on both nose and palate, but the defining note is lightness: tasters find it comes across as diluted and a touch thin, the youth and the bottling strength leaving it without much body. The pot still and ex-bourbon ageing have laid a clean foundation, though at only three years the wood has had limited time to build depth. At 42.8% it drinks gently as a light, fruity young rum, an honest look at early stage small batch distilling rather than a weighty or developed pour.