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Foursquare Doorly's 5 Years
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One member calls it "really nice English style" — spicy rather than funky, with vanilla, toffee, caramel and a dry oak backbone from bourbon casks. It's a classic Foursquare in miniature: clean, gently sweet without any added sugar, and easy to drink. The catch several tasters note is the short, almost disappearing finish, so it shines more in a glass with cola than sipped alone.
The community says- No added sugar
- Vanilla and toffee
- But: Short finish
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How does Foursquare Doorly's 5 Years taste?
Summarized by AI from community reviews.
Clean, easy Barbados rum for mixing Most agree it's a clean, everyday Bajan rum with vanilla, toffee and oak. Fair few sip it happily, but the short finish and thin body push many toward mixing.
Aroma profilePeople wanting a clean Bajan mixer or an entry rum
Those chasing a long finish or big complexity
Style & occasion: Mature & oakyCocktails & mixingSipping neat
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What does the community say?
105 community reviews
26 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by Montana
Most helpful positive review
A slightly fruity and sweet smell, vanilla, a little woody. The taste is also somewhat fruity and sweet, slightly of vanilla and honey, in the aftertaste also a little woody.
Review by KYRTAPS
Most helpful critical review
Smooth, plain. Ok to drink and forget about it. No Caribbean, no fruit, no spice flavor. Molasses and wood. Taste is reminiscent of bourbon. That's not why I drink rum.
Review by Stefan Persson
Overall an very OK everyday rum, especially when taking the price into account. The brand Doorly’s was founded by Martin Doorly & Company, but is nowadays owned and produced by Foursquare and Mr. Richard Seale. The 5yo is a single blended rum, a combination of column and pot still, aged in former bourbon casks whereafter it’s bottled without any dosage or additives at 40%.
Review by Timo Groeger
Caribbean vacation September 2026. Bought during a stopover at the airport in Barbados. You can definitely notice the Foursquare DNA here, you can drink it pretty well neat, just not at 45 degrees :), then it gets nasty :)
Review by HenryL
Purely unexciting but not bad, works great in cocktails and is currently my go-to for price-performance for a Barbados Rum Punch. Also works well in Old Cubans, Rum-Cola, etc.
Review by Eric Frechin
A good entry-level rum to start with. Easy to drink with tasty notes of caramel, toffee, coconut. Light roasted oak. It’s nicely rounded by the Bourbon barrel. Short finish. I’m also thinking of trying it in a cocktail.
Review by F Kraemmer
Romhatten virtual Foursquare tasting date 11.09.2026 RX1002 FS Doorly’s 5 years. Nose: Caramel and toffee’s. Light coconut, unbalanced alcohol. Mouth: Caramel and toffee’s, light coconut, unbalanced do to water irrigation. Residual taste is short, light toffee’s and vanilla. The glass: Cardboard light vanilla. Tasting “In the cave”
Review by Steve the Barman
All my Tastings and Scores are purely based on “Rums under £50”. I rarely look at Rums over £50 for my YouTube.
Review by Hansi
It's okay, not the best for drinking neat. But for the price, really good for mixing. Quite a good vanilla, caramel, and toffee flavor, as you'd expect from a Foursquare.
Review by Decky Hicks Doughty
The nose is rather tame with no sharp notes. Toffee and oak are most dominant with some berry like fruit and a pinch of salt. The palate has the toffee and wood from the nose but with more spice than the nose would let on. No fruit notes present but some biscuity sweetness. Some milk chocolate in the background. The finish is quite short and only really keeps the wood and spice from the palate. A little vanilla is present right at the end. It's a good entry level Barbados rum but for a similar price you can buy Plantation 5 Year and I prefer that despite the dosage.
Review by Righrum
Too thin and not excellent alcohol integration, but is a foursquare undoubtedly and at a competitive price.
Review by Trinkfluencer
Very flat at the front of the tongue, unfolds only in the throat. Somewhat narrow.
Review by Pavel Spacek
... Foursquare is a distillery from Barbados producing amazing rums for everyday sipping. This is a rum especially appreciated by rum drinkers who are fed up with sugar and are looking for a gentle, sweet rum full of coconut, vanilla, chocolate, and caramel. Simply pleasant and not aggressive flavors.
Review by Hogo Monster
While I bought this for mixing purposes, had to give it a sip first and it's not bad. At first nosing there was a heavy cherry aroma but it died off over the next 10 minutes into typical barrel notes. In the taste some familiar Foursquare elements but for me overall dominant flavor is unsweetened baking cocoa. Bet I can trick some friends into thinking it's bourbon.
Review by pavlix vipax
Simple, short, everyday drink but better than aniversario, just simple.
Review by Jakob Deiner
On the nose, fruit-forward with banana and coconut, accompanied by vanilla and caramel. On the palate, the banana fades away, a light coconut note remains along with some vanilla before it shifts more towards woody-dry, luckily not too bitter. Drinks: - Neat: 3.5/5 - Rum Cola: 3.5/5
Review by Marcus Ekornes
Nice and clean rum, but also falls a bit short with me. I Find it a little lacking in flavor.
Review by Oskar Lango
Very delicate in cocktails, quite good solo.
Review by Anonymous
Vanilla and cask on the nose. Taste is vanilla, honey and leather with just a hint of pepper, finish is nicely warm and sweetish (but no sugar seems to have been added!) with no burn, and it all ends nicely by cask undertones. It's not massively complex but for the price (paid 25eur) it's okay. It doesn't have sugar added, which is huge bonus but since finish is, surprisingly for me, almost non existent, I cannot enjoy sipping it. But it's good for cocktails.
Review by Adam Rajchert
Smell: banana, caramel, honey, nuts, coconut, wood, salt, cream, a bit of butter, nuts, glue Taste: banana chips, coconut, wood, cream, salty caramel, vanilla, roasted nuts, lacquer, chocolate, a hint of vegetal Finish: oily, buttery, banana, slightly tannic
Review by Fayaman971
A nice surprise this 5-year-old rum from Barbados! It's fruity and smooth, very easy to drink. Basically, for a rum of this age, it does its job very well. I fully approve.
Review by Jonas Kofod
Really nice English style. Not in a funky way but more spicy.
Review by Anonymous
Balanced rum with nice fruit and sweetness. Noted some nice vanilla notes pop with coke a cola. So far it’s been a nice mixer. Reminds be a bit of Four Roses Bourbon profile with fruit and wood/spice notes.
Review by Kieron Wood
This is an interesting rum for the price... on the rocks cam be quite harsh but used as a cocktail or cola it becomes devine... Really dry flavour but that's how I like it... Excellent with lime
Review by Miňo
On the palate caramel, wood and vanilla. Good to drink.
Review by Anonymous
Surprisingly pleasant for the price. For me almost better than Botucal or Centenario as an entry-level rum.
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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review ›It gives the drink that classic Bajan taste that anyone who has experience of rum from Barbados will instantly recognise. This is a serious contender for best rum in the £20 price bracket. It really is a great introduction to Bajan style rums. In fact its a good introduction to...
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194 bottles logged by 170 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
40% opened, 38 emptied.
What does Foursquare Doorly's 5 Years cost?
Community paid 19–37 €.
Current best price: 22.34 € – within the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 21 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›
+10 additions in the last 3 months.
Additions per month over the last 12 months; dark bars: the last 3.
194 purchased · 116 tasted · 70 wishlist · as of
Details about Foursquare Doorly's 5 Years
A Pot & Column Still Rum from Barbados, distilled by Foursquare, at 40%.
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