Flensburg, in the North of Germany just before the Danish border, is known for its Scandinavian Flair. Less for the Rum that is produced here for centuries. A pity, because he is damn good.
“Come on, not head in the chitchat,” says Malte to me, as I’m staying at the port, the ships look. He pours Rum into a small glass and hands it to me. Sweet and spicy, the percent of High tastes. And warms nicely. It was the last SIP. “We need supplies”, the 66-Year-old, who drove earlier as a sailor to the sea, and now, with Sam and Angel, on the quay, and herring catches.
We run to the Rumhaus Johannsen, one of the last traditional Distilleries in Flensburg. There, in the Marie street there is the best Rumverschnitt. Blending, doesn’t sound so good, but it tastes and has a long history: in 1885, was started by the Caribbean Islands, Rum, the in Flensburg money to be made. But soon there was the quantity of inches. The sailors were forced from now on, concentrate, in order that the manufacturers could continue to sell as much as before. In order to make the imported 80 proof alcohol drink, he was stretched with water, so diluted, and with grain alcohol refined. This method has survived to this day. The spicy taste of the Offcut is now much better than its reputation.
Shop Johannsen: The oldest Rumhaus the city was founded in 1878
Once a Danish colony
Flensburg has a real Rumtradition – as the only German city. It once belonged to Denmark. And Denmark had colonies: the virgin Islands, St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix. In the Bay of the port, then a larger and more significant than the Copenhagen, brought the ships to the coveted drink in large barrels. What in the 18th century. Century, prospered, was interrupted one hundred years later, the war: The city went from Denmark to Prussia and Austria. As a result, the Bay of distilleries lost suppliers of your running around. An Equivalent had to be found. And so they began to travel to Jamaica to close the gap.
Rum: traditional ageing in oak barrels
Matures up to 14 years in the barrel
All of this had once witnessed the great-great-grandfather of Martin Johannsen. Martin leads the fourth Generation of the oldest Rumhaus of the city. Behind the small Shop in the Malbork castle, a medieval merchant’s store the old town, wafting from a dark warehouse with a touch rooms, spicy Rums, mixed with the delicate aromas of vanilla and smoky wood. Once a year, the supply comes from the Caribbean, two to three thousand liters of it each Time. With a winch at the warehouse, the containers are pulled up and in wooden barrels at a controlled temperature. Between five and seven years maturity time in the tropical climate of Jamaica on the Rum on his arrival. Actually, he is Mature and intense flavor, but for a Bay Rum, he was not yet good enough, said the young man. Twelve to fourteen years must develop a Rum, until it is bottled.
The high tiger percentage taste of the Caribbean: the real Jamaica-Rum
Well-preserved old town
On the way back to the port I do with picturing a detour through the Oluf-Samson-Gang. Although the alley is not what it used to be, reminding you of the time, as the Sailors exchanged once money against Lust. At the end of the Sixties created in the Bay of red-light atmosphere of 70 women, almost four years ago, the last two prostitutes closed their establishments. Houses, some from the 17th century. Century came, and now have been restored. It was high time to bring the historic property to the front man, especially as the house number 3, the facade fell and passers-by were found in a “spectacular” setting. Apart from such in-between cases, Flensburg, Germany, is structurally in good shape, because the city was not destroyed during the Second world war, market square, town gate, churches are well preserved.
Stroll through the city, past captain and merchant houses, which are found in the small side streets
It has been attracting more and more students
Known 95,000 inhabitants, was a city by Beate Uhse, which opened here in 1962 the first sex shop in the world. Named “specialist shop for the marital hygiene,” the offer included contraceptive, lingerie, stimulation of articles and books.
Beate Uhse 1969 in front of your erotic mail-order company in Flensburg
To Flensburg, it pulls from time immemorial, adventurers, artists of life, Sailors, boat builders, and students who like to live in the part still cheap farms the city centre. In the courtyards there are Skater shops, alteration tailoring shops, galleries, and Discos. Occasionally, a sailor’s skirt echoes from the open Windows. The “Santiano”, a Band whose men are all from Flensburg. Their songs are full of lust for Life, untamed desire and wild dreams. The Song “There’s only water” is very popular, because it says: “We need Rum, Rum, Rum, otherwise we die of thirst.” “Not true,” adds drew. “Because there is also the famous Flensburger beer. But for me, nothing beats a good Rum!”
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