Bumbu Original

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There is something about this rum that is way off. It's so overly sweet and flavored with something I don't know, it's weird. Couldn't get through my first glass. The bottle is pretty cool though.

Pri tomto rume som mal velke ocakavania pre jeho recenzie a vsebecne renome. No bol som strasne sklamany. Chut ako pri lacnom alkohole plneho bananovej a vanilkovej umelej prichute. Pozitivne hodnotim iba vzhlad flase.

mám opravdu rád sladší rumy, ale tohle už je moc. mix kávového Božkova a marshmallov.