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E58A9FE4-743C-433D-8C00-13E933D78239Saint Lucia Saint Lucia Distillers
Hamilton Beachbum Berry's Zombie Blend 2005 100cl bottle
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59%

Hamilton Beachbum Berry's Zombie Blend 2005

Built for tiki, not the tasting glass — that's the honest surprise here. At 59% it comes across spicy and roasty, with espresso, dark chocolate and a bit of pineapple-citrus over caramel. Neat it's warm but a touch rough, and one taster even caught a cough-syrup edge. Where it shines is in a glass with fruit and lime.

The community says
  • Great in tiki drinks
  • Spicy and roasty
  • But: Hot neat

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How does Hamilton Beachbum Berry's Zombie Blend 2005 taste?

Summarized by AI from 17 community reviews.

Spicy, roasty tiki-cocktail workhorse Most agree it does its job as a Zombie and Mai Tai base — spicy, strong, roasty. Sipped neat it's fine but a bit hot and unrefined; it's a cocktail rum first.

Perfect for

Tiki fans building Zombies and Mai Tais

Less suitable for

People wanting a refined neat sipper

Experience level · Explorer (3/5)

Style & occasion: Mature & oakyCocktails & mixing

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Flavor profile
Sweet & dessert
Spice
Wood
Dried fruit
Roasted & dark
Funk & ester
Vegetal & floral

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What does the community say?

7.6/10 Good

17 community reviews
9 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app

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Distribution of all 17 ratings
9–10 0%
8–9 0%
7–8 76%
6–7 24%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

Ranges include their upper bound: “7–8” means above 7 up to and including 8. See the full rating guide

Review by Christoph

Most helpful positive review

Christoph
Nov 2022454 reviewsGermany
8.0/10

Alcohol is well integrated, spicy and quite strong. But clearly falls into the category of cocktail rum and for tiki drinks this one should be a good choice.

Review by SaibotZtar

Most helpful mixed review

SaibotZtar
Dec 2023618 reviewsGermany
7.0/10

The comic advent calendar day 16 Certainly very tasty when mixed ... Pure rather something for in between 🤗

Review by zabo

zabo
Dec 20231,972 reviewsGermany
7.8/10

The funny calendar day 16 Franconian Tasting Gang For me, this is the most positive surprise from the calendar. Compared to the other St. Lucias, it falls a little short. But in my opinion it's more of an easy sipper.

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Community shelf

77 bottles logged by 71 collectors.

Both drunk and collected.

22% opened, 5 emptied.

60 sealed 12 open 5 emptied

What did the community pay for Hamilton Beachbum Berry's Zombie Blend 2005?

Community paid 20–36 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 28 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →

77 purchased · 20 tasted · 16 wishlist · as of

Details about Hamilton Beachbum Berry's Zombie Blend 2005

A Pot Still Rum from Saint Lucia, distilled by Saint Lucia Distillers, at 59%.

CategoryPot Still Rum
Raw materialMolasses
DistillationPot Still
ABV59%
Vintage2005
Volume100cl

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Saint Lucia Distillers

Distillery

Saint Lucia Distillers 

Avg Rating 8.2/10 240 Rums

St. Lucia Distillers is the island's only distillery and one of the most versatile in the Caribbean. Four stills give it eight different distillates, molasses and cane juice, pot and column, which its blenders turn into everything from the humble Bounty to the cult Chairman's Reserve and the super-premium Admiral Rodney. It rebuilt itself after an arson fire and is now owned by the same group as Martinique's J.M and Clement.

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9.0–10.0 Excellent Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good your rum Buy one and recommend it to your friends.
6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
4.0–4.9 Drinkable Not vocally complaining.
3.0–3.9 Poor Wish I was drinking something else.
2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
1.0–1.9 Unpleasant No, that's not for me.
0.1–0.9 Inedible Pour it out.