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Bumbu Original rum

Bumbu Original

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Barbados | Aged | 40% ABV

6.3/10
852 ratings
Tasty, but not quite great
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852 Bumbu Original Ratings

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Potomaccadio (BASIC) 🇺🇸 | 7 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

This Rum is way too sweet for me. I couldn't drink more than a couple ounces but my friends loved it. They finished it off as shots. Very easy to drink, without a complex taste. Think of Maple syrup with some Liquor thrown in. I couldn't get paste the sweetness to notice anything else.

Jason Berman (BASIC) 🇺🇸 | 47 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

By far the sugary sweetest rum I’ve ever had. It has an oddly strong banana taste. The bottle is cool so there’s something positive.

Folharth (BASIC) 🇨🇦 | 69 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

Bumbu Original - not rum but banana liquore :(((((((((((((((((((((((((

Swervin_Kervin (BASIC) 🇺🇸 | 47 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

I’ve learned if you have a nice bottle at a medium price, typically the rum is garbage. This rum is exactly that. No defining quality. Not much different from a cheap bacardi.

xaveir (BASIC) 🇺🇸 | 3 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

Fun as an example of "poorly flavored" rum for tastings.

rišo (BASIC) 🇸🇰 | 51 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

chuť plná hlavne banánov(až prehnaná), chýba však sila. Stará mama ho má rada.

Morthrag (BASIC) 🇨🇭 | 96 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

Schmeckt wie das zum backen genutzte Rum-Aroma, fruchtig süss, durchaus trinkbar aber halt irgendwie künstlich.
Ausserdem sollte er mit 35%vol auch nicht Rum heissen.

Diogenes the Rumantic (BASIC) 🇫🇷 | 37 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

Poor spiced rum, sold as aged in many shops. Tastes the spiced, not the rum

Ernie Higgs (BASIC) 🇨🇦 | 36 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

My first sense was bubble gum. What is in this concoction? Never again

piratejabez (BASIC) 🇺🇸 | 322 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

First off, this product is bottled at only 35% ABV, so regardless of what else is in there, it can't legally be sold as “rum” in most countries. Rather, it's a spiced rum or a liqueur. (Note it never says rum on the bottle, only “Bumbu Rum Company.” Very sneaky. You thought it was rum, didn't you?)
I was warned about this bottle (it has quite the terrible, well-earned reputation within the rum enthusiast community), but somehow I was still surprised at just how bad this was. The nose is full of artificial fruit flavor (though they claim everything is natural; well there must be some really crap natural ingredients out there). People say banana runts, and that’s pretty close, but it was a lot more than that. Big candy aromas—bubble gum, jolly rancher, cough syrup—with lots of vanilla. The banana comes on the middle/end of the nose. As for the palate… mostly a sickly sweet, syrupy mess. More runts, maple & cough syrups… really hard to drink.
And yet, underneath all the sticky garbage, (far underneath,) there did seem to be the faintest hint of a decent rum base. A touch of wood? Something actually resembling a drinkable cane distillate? Maybe that's just the vanilla aftertaste. In any case, there was really nothing to keep it from being, without a doubt, the worst "rum" I’ve ever had the displeasure of trying.
Putting it bluntly: This liquid is bad, and the people who market and profit from it are bad too. Since this sells for around $35–40, you're paying at least double what this is worth, just for a cool bottle (and a massive marketing campaign). There are so many great rums—real rums—out there in this price range, if you're willing to do a little research. Bumbu just gives rum a bad name. That it pretends to represent some kind of historic Barbadian concoction just adds insult to injury. Please, spare yourself from the experience. Don't support the bad guys.




Brand Details

Company: Bumbu
Name: Original
ABV: 40%
Type: Aged
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Unknown

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