Dark Matter Spiced

This spiced rum has a heavy ginger smell and taste to it. If you don't like ginger, i would avoid this! Luckily, i am on the side that likes ginger and i also enjoy the fiery feeling as it goes down your throat. It's quite enjoyable to drink although nothing spectacular but it is pretty unique thanks to the ginger. I love the name too!

I had the joy of trying this rum after my friend gave me it straight in a shot glass. It's warming, but not rough, and had the initial sweetness that you'd expect. However the aftertaste is dominated by pepper. It wasn't horrible, but it simply didn't make me think of rum, rather it was more like the aftertaste of a malt whisky. This left me severely undecided about this rum. The one thing I'd say is: try before you buy.

It's a bit different, this one.
It has bucketfulls of cloves. One almost expects to see a few loose ones lying in the bottom of the bottle. You may want to drop a cube of ice in there, because it will burn you. The alcohol burn is there, but it is overshadowed by the burn from the cloves. Hence, the way to drink this one is with miniscule sips.
I think there's a decent base rum underneath the spices, but you don't really find it straight away. A few glasses in and there is demerara and vanilla, but you have to search for them.

I was given a bottle of this as a leaving present from work and whilst I did enjoy it, I might not necessarily buy another. I don't mind the taste of cloves, but this is bordering on too much and I feel it takes this away from what one expects from something labelled as rum.

In summary, drinking it on a cold Autumn or Winter evening is ideal, because it will make you feel warm, but as a tasting experience, it is a bit of a one-trick pony.

Unusual. Definitely distinctive. A bit whisky like for me and too harsh to sip. Not bad with coke though. I do like how it makes my lips and tongue tingle mind you.

I like what dark matter are trying to do and maybe in a few years we will see better.

This is a spiced rum nicer than the Kraken but heavily cloves rather than vanilla

Smells worse than it tastes very heavy smell of cloves, but not a bad taste quite smooth no after burn it’s so so

Good rum but very strong flavours and the burn was a tad harsh

As other reviews have suggested, this is a love/hate rum. The original presentation of the bottle and label is excellent - it has all the promise of a good rum....however on opening, the smell is overwhelming - it's like being hit in the nose with a sledgehammer made of cloves. This smell then overpowers the taste and there is nothing else other than the harsh clove taste - slightly more tolerable as a mixer (coke) and possibly a little better with apple juice (which I have yet to try). That being said, i'm glad I satisfied my curiosity,

Friend got me Dark Matter. I'm not keen on it but still waiting to see if it grows on me, doubt it will.

It's the same mouth feel you get after drinking ginger beer, which I don't like. It's very heavy on the cloves and I don't get much else from it, so I find it quite one dimensional, whereas Rumbullion had a kaleidoscope effect.

5/10

This is very "peppery" to the nose, almost to the point it forced me to sneeze. Its quit spicy going down pass the throat, and into the chest.

I only picked up a taste, from another website. This is not one I would seek out to add to my bar.