jstar
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A long time ago, together with the Caribbean islands, the Netherlands East Indies were an important producer of rum. And the product had a rather good name.
One of the few -if not the only- producers left on Java is Naga. Well, so I thought. But then I found out via a French website it is in fact produced over there?! A bit like some of the Abbey beers in Belgium that are based on original recipes and still controlled by the monks, but produced at commercial breweries. I hope it's not like these Chinese watch companies that buy/use European (sounding) names.
On their website they give quite some interesting info about the history of the rum: http://www.nagarum.com/En/
I can't seem to find it outside of Europe. (Obviously I guess if you see the production location.) Where it is quite expensive btw, more than €40
There is a version called Batavia Arrack which you can buy on international websites and even in some Balinese resorts but I'm not sure if it is really the same (they avoid the word Rum) and whether that one is really produced on Java. (It really seems to be the 'Chinese watch' fake marketing example.)
Did anyone try it before? Any other known products?
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A long time ago, together with the Caribbean islands, the Netherlands East Indies were an important producer of rum. And the product had a rather good name.
One of the few -if not the only- producers left on Java is Naga. Well, so I thought. But then I found out via a French website it is in fact produced over there?! A bit like some of the Abbey beers in Belgium that are based on original recipes and still controlled by the monks, but produced at commercial breweries. I hope it's not like these Chinese watch companies that buy/use European (sounding) names.
On their website they give quite some interesting info about the history of the rum: http://www.nagarum.com/En/
I can't seem to find it outside of Europe. (Obviously I guess if you see the production location.) Where it is quite expensive btw, more than €40
There is a version called Batavia Arrack which you can buy on international websites and even in some Balinese resorts but I'm not sure if it is really the same (they avoid the word Rum) and whether that one is really produced on Java. (It really seems to be the 'Chinese watch' fake marketing example.)
Did anyone try it before? Any other known products?
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