Stroh Original 80

Well based on the name it is. Strong with strong marzipan flavour. OK with hot choko or if you want to forget one day.

Like drinking butterscotch someone has lit on fire. Ruins any mixed drinks it's used in.

super heavy rum, with nothing interesting, just bad.

I do not consider this as a traditional natural dark rum. It might be suitable for hot drinks or mixing. I would not consider this as a sipper. Taste is almost burning and it has unpleasant notes that i have not tasted before in spirits. Likely the second worst spirits experiense, and i like some bitters like branca although taste of Stroh is not very bitter.

it's nothing more than a gimmick. extremely strong and that's the only thing it has going for it.

Lowered a few bottles of this very strong Austrian rum when I was on a skiing holiday in Kitzbuhl, Austria as a teenager.
It falls into the same category as the Thai varieties Mehkong and SangSom, ie party, party, party without caring about what you drink.

Okay, this is it. This is the stuff of legends. The bottle this was tasted from was gifted to me by me grandfather and was bought in Austria in 1982.

Nose: Sugar, Liquorice Root, Herbal Medicine, Caramel and Vanilla Extract
Taste: Sugar, Plastic, Liquorice Root, Herbal Medicine and Vanillin with a artificial, but surprisingly short aftertaste
Overall: Well, this is just bad. I knew it would be, but it still is.... bad. The artificial flavours covers up the 80 abv pretty well and it drinks much easier than that, but it is simply bad "rum". It gets a 2/10, because it is quite good to use in your baked goods.

Lo Stroh Original 80, dalla gradazione alcolica di 80% sul volume, e proveniente dall'Austro-Ungheria prima, e dall'Austria adessoo, è un prodotto aromatizzato probabilmente pensato per essere impiegato nel punch o in altri preparati e cocktail, ma non per essere sorbito liscio.
Canna da zucchero, frutta secca e un sentore cioccolatoso si smorzano sul palato travolti dall'acidità e dalla forza dell'alcol rendendolo effettivamente un rum del tutto trascurabile.

This is a rum no doubt. But only has 1 use. Straight in the top of a Hill or moutain. Its Way to strong and bitter.

A rum drinker who drinks Stroh 80 is like a vodka drinker who drinks everclear... a soon to be dead moron. cook with it, clean with it put a layer on the top of a cocktail and burn it but for the love of god DO NOT DRINK IT