Koloa Gold

I've been really impressed by Koloa rums. They make my favorite coffee rum, my favorite coconut rum, and my favorite dark rum. But their gold rum is about average to me.

It's really smooth for a 40%abv rum. That's the good part. Tastes and smells of honey, caramelized sugar, caramel, a light spice, and possibly some toasted macadamia nuts. A tad artificial tasting, but decent.

A fine gold rum, but for gold rums I prefer others, such as the Banks 7 Golden.

Nothing special here. A bit medicinal, slightly artificial-tasting. OK for mixed drinks, but not a great value.

Nothing too fancy, but quite a solid mixing rum. There are some better ones out there for the price, however.

Pretty astringent on the nose and palate finish… there are better out there but it isn’t undrinkable… or maybe I have just gotten used to nasty stuff…

Not drinkable straight. Not bad with coke. Strictly a mixer and not a great one.

This rum is fairly expensive, being more than twice as costly as a good Caribbean / Central American rum, so I was expecting something good. Instead... this rum is colourless, odourless and flavourless. It is very "thin", and while i's fine in a Rum and Cola, it adds no flavour / character.