Brugal 1888

This is a nice sipping rum. I find myself preferring Diplomatico Rum Reserva over this one, but plenty of folks will prefer this over Diplo. Try them both and find your every day rum. All-in-all, it’s a decent dram.

I love the sherry cask taste of this rum. It’s oaky and dry but a little sweet too. Good for mixing- not a sipping rum.

It has strong karamel flavour at the beginning with a nice woody finish. I like it

Brugal/Dominican Republic so I expected sweet and was pleasantly surprised when I got something else entirely. Dry, smooth, with delicious barrel aged flavors. I've tasted the bourbon drinkers in my life on this one and have consistently gotten favorable reviews. Wish they'd have bumped up the proof to 43+ but happy with what it is.

N: quite interesting. Perfumy, some sherry, coconut sweet… not fantastic, but solid. T/F: very smooth and sweet, but a bit of spice and dusty complexity. Decent change of pace, clearly sippable, but closer to whisky than tequila, and on that basis less distinct.

Nice color and thcik body. Littl to boozy in the taste compared to what i like

What a bargain this bottle is. Double aged in white oak and first fill sherry cask. It has a pure expression and according to hydrometer test's, a fairly small amount of added sugar. The nose gives away roasted coffee beans, brown sugar, leather, tobacco, oaky tannins and sherry cask. On the palate I get, once again, leather, tobacco, oak and brown sugar, but also roasted nuts and a hint of dried fig's roll's over the tongue. It has a nice body, not to sweet and slightly dry, unlike so many other overly sweet dominican rum. It has great texture in the mouth and a nice lingering, spicy little burn at the end.
It doesn't excel at any particular point, but for the money, it's just a great no nonsense sipper, perfectly enjoyed in the sun.

Nice amber color, a bit sweet but not to much. Toffee and vanilla. Nice bottle.

Caramel and oaky. This rum is not sweet, rather dry. I think it’d make for a good old fashion. Or just sip neat.

I had the pleasure of trying this from my brother's collection and enjoyed it. It was not sweet like many other rums I've tried and so that gave me the opportunity to focus more on the other flavors such as the oak and banana. It seemed to be well balanced all the way through. At first seemed a little dry, but the finish ended up being pleasantly smooth.