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By The Dutch Batavia Arrack 8-Year rum

By The Dutch Batavia Arrack 8-Year

Indonesia | Aged

4.7/10
79 ratings
Flawed with a glimmer of hope
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79 By The Dutch Batavia Arrack 8-Year Ratings

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Michal Micko (PREMIUM) 🇨🇿 | 642 ratings
Posted 1 year ago

Aroma is like agricole.
Taste is light almost watery, slight burning and mineral tones, ending in short bitter aftertaste.

Stefan Persson (PREMIUM) 🇸🇪 | 507 ratings
Posted over 3 years ago

Tested just a sample so it’s just a first impression, but I won’t dig deeper into it.
Molasses is used in this Indonesian rum and it’s distilled in pot stills. A special thing is that they are using some red rice in the yeast.
After distillation it’s aged in teak barrels for some years before transported to the Netherlands where it’s transferred to oak barrels.
The final blend consists of spirits aged 8 months, 3, 5 and 8 years, and bottled at 48% ABV.
From nose via palate to the finish, which is medium long mostly depending on on the alcohol content, I can recognize fruits, bananas and some notes of spices and arrack. I was expecting a lot more flavor of arrack.
Overall I think that everything is much too weak to catch my interest.

B.P.O. 🇳🇱 | 55 ratings
Posted 4 years ago

With a proofing of 48% you feel it with the first whiff and confirmed with the taste. It’s disappointing where a distiller goes for a alcohol over flavor.

BinoBRUCHHH 🇸🇪 | 31 ratings
Posted over 2 years ago

Väldigt annorlunda de rom som jag redan testat. Knappt någon fatkaraktär och smakar till viss liknelse som saké. Jäst ris och Gräsiga/blommiga toner. Helt OK men kommer inte köpa igen.

Krobbe13 🇸🇪 | 103 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

Luktar russin och kanel. Smakar lakrits. Känns inte som en rom. Spritig.

Paul 🇫🇷 | 6 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

On sent beaucoup l'alcool mais le goût n'est pas très puissant. Trop leger

Jesper Mazanti 🇩🇰 | 155 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

:-)
Colour is light.
Smell not ok.
Taste is not ok.
Aftertaste is bad.
;-)

Rasmus 🇩🇰 | 153 ratings
Posted over 5 years ago

Arrack is special kind of rum from Southeast Asia, where rice and other assorted rice are added to the fermentation process. It gives the drink a special taste, that is sure to device rum lovers.

Nose: Aromas of soil and greens with a small hint of suger cane
Taste: Very dry and clean taste of bark and pepper. A long medicinal aftertaste
Overall: I am not that well-traveled, when it comes to arrack, but if this is the benchmark for the style, then it might be something that I personally would stay away from.

Dzudzu 🇸🇰 | 129 ratings
Posted 1 year ago

Nothing special, i can live without this rum, only 4/10

Mike 🇨🇿 | 145 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

I was not expecting to much from this one so my disappointment was not that big. It smells like agricole rum and taste is with flavours of rice?!, wood, grass and some vanilla.




Brand Details

Name: Batavia Arrack 8-Year
Years Aged: 8
Type: By The Dutch
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Unknown
Women leading Rum: No