Meet our new rum blogger - Thomas Heie Nielsen

Meet our new rum blogger - Thomas Heie Nielsen

About Thomas Heie Nielsen

I've been a hygge rum drinker for a number of years. Like most people, it started with rum in the watered-down and sweet end of the spectrum. But that stopped in 2018 when I started going to rum tastings and where the diverse and complex world of rum opened up to me and I have since been nerding out on rum on more than a hobby level.

My strength number is over 2000 tasted rums, including around 500 unaged rums and quite a few rums and sample batches that are only produced in an ultra-limited edition.

I have selected and released rum (and gin) for Boldklubben Frem, have brought the Dutch distillery Rummieclub to Denmark, as the first country outside the Netherlands. Helped select the rum that GetSpirits won as the best Danish rum in the June 2022 issue of Whisky& magazine. Collaborated with Romdeluxe on their white rum school and I have visited a number of distilleries at home and abroad.

A bottle of rum can't have too much information and it is allowed to be on the front page. Everything from country, distillery, age, alcoholic strength, ester brand, yeast type, sugar cane species to soil conditions, distillation boiler, storage climate and much more. It can't get nerdy enough for me.

Rome is an experience. It should be something you have to relate to. But it doesn't have to be expensive (or snobby) I love new rum experiences and recently I've become quite fond of agricole from Martinique and Guadeloupe in particular. My favorites, however, are heavy Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad rums at cask strength. Power and potstill. The small Jamaican Fiji rum is also quite delicious. Beenleigh from Australia and Mhoba from South Africa have also caught my attention in the last couple of years and of course the unaged rums. You can't fake a new distillate.

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