It was from this northernmost German access to the Baltic, Flensburg, that sailors set off for the Caribbean in their 18th-century quest for liquid gold of the West Indies, rum. For Martin Johannsen, rum, a sugar cane distillate, still has something disreputable about it, purely a sailors’ drink, he says. But it has become a sought-after, upmarket product. The Johannsens supply the town’s restaurants and bars and also sell refined rum varieties online.
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