Old J Spiced

Easily one of my favourite rums! Smooth & strong vanilla cut through with an undertone of lime! Easy drinking over ice of with cola!

Nice label and average bottle.
The spiced taste is reasonable and sweet. nothing about its taste is hard hitting or overpowering, but its a nice mixing dring

Great mixing rum not that great straight up.
Nice in a dark and stormy

Very strong Vanilla Smell and Taste. I love Vanilla so all good with me

Strong, smooth and sweet. Almost perfect rum. Very comparable to Bumbu, has a slight stronger taste but that comes with a bigger punch.

Tastes like Christmas in a bottle, wonderful when mixed. But you can't have too much before it gets sickly

Superb, beautiful vanilla and lime notes, only problem, it’s too easy to drink

Lovely vanilla and lime aftertaste with added spice
Perfect with ginger beer or Coke

Cardiff Rum Festival spicy ginger finished golden spiced rum. Decent

N- Fat melted vanilla ice cream with a layer of thick bols cacao brown and baileys. Whiff of raisin with loads of brown sugar and peppery raw spirits. (16/25)

P- Lime peel, cola candy, creamy, sweet with the head-hammering grumpy vanilla all the way. (15/25)

F- Short-medium, coat of spirit, vanilla, chocolate milk, and caramel. Reminded me the discontinued Vanilla Coke on early of this century. (14/25)

Balance- Simple and straight forward, vanilla, chocolate and lime, off notes of acetone, raw, destined for the mixing. (15/25)

Weighted Rate:- 60pt

— at The Rum Bar KL.

Bit like lambs spiced and red leg. Not for me, not great even with coke.

Heavily marketed as am original sailer jerry recipie but way too cloying and overdone on the vanilla not for me.

This is drinkable but a little lacking compared to some.

Obviously there are those here who don't like spiced rum. Let's take them out of the equation because they're not going to give much, if anything, a mark greater than 5.

As spiced rums go, this is ok, as vanilla-spiced rums go it's good. I'd say it was less spicey than Sailor Jerry, but much heavier on the vanilla. It's also sweeter and slightly more watery than SJ. I'd put them about on a par. If you really like vanilla rum, then there's two that are much better - St Aubin's vanilla rum is basically a good rum with a rum taste with the addition of a decent hit of vanilla (but it's much pricier) . It's lovely - maybe a bit like Plantation Pineapple is to rum with pineapple, but St A's is smoother and with less kick. Rolling Calf takes what Old J does and ups it - smoother, more kick, about the same vanilla but a bit more lime and spice.

If you like this, I think it's very unlikely that you would not like those two as well. If you hate this, you won't like Rolling Calf, but you still may well like St Aubin Rhum Agricole Vanilla.

Great taste for a spiced rum. Prefer this to a captain Morgan's spiced for cocktails. Enjoyed at rum fest

Vanilla overkill, very sweet. Very easy to drink with cola, but only a couple at a time

Lovely soothing rum, lots of vanilla and apice with a very slight clove.

Good god , from the moment you unscrew the cheap cap artificial vanilla smacks you in the face !! Its overpowering.. neat or mixed you know what the taste is gonna be before you get it to your lips.
Rum flavoured vanilla would be about right.
Then on top of the vanilla bomb comes artificial limes , it all ends up as a sickly toffee drink... It was cheap so no real surprise ! All the people that have given this high ratings haven't tried enough good stuff imho.

Mainly vanilla and some spices (which I can't really distinguish). Overall target market is the Rum is Fun which they are doing very well in.

Interesting spiced spirit, but not really a rum at all. I mean, technically it isn't a rum anyway, as the manufacturers themselves state (its ABV is under 37.5% so it apparently doesn't qualify as being a "rum"). But anyway, it just tastes like a very sweet spirit, with some interesting vanilla and spices, but the toffee flavour is so overpowering.

My favourite rum of all time. Can drink neat as so smooth.

Really tasty gold spiced rum with beautiful notes of Persian lime and vanilla.. for mixing and cocktail it just works so well it's become what I reach for in that category

This is very sweet! It's also cheap so it's a good first timers rum. U could drink it on its own but for me a little too sweet and overpowering on the vanilla
Ok rum easy to drink

Tasted this rum with ginger beer in a Cuban night club last night. I'll have to buy a bottle to see how it really goes down. Further updates to follow.

Vanilla is way too overpowering and not at all subtle and that's coming from someone who enjoys the vanilla taste of rums. Even when mixed with coke this problem isn't masked.