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A.H. Riise Non Plus Ultra Black Edition Rum
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Sipped neat it drinks like a dessert in a glass: caramel, vanilla, toffee and dark chocolate, with cherry, strawberry and banana candy notes layered on top. At 42% there's no heat — it's soft and syrupy. Members are clear it's extremely sweet, more liqueur than rum, and some pick up an artificial "hubba bubba" edge under the sweetness.
The community says- Rich caramel-chocolate
- No alcohol burn
- Keep in mind: High sugar content
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How does A.H. Riise Non Plus Ultra Black Edition Rum taste?
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Very sweet, dessert-style candy rum Loved by sweet-rum fans for its creamy caramel-chocolate character; dismissed by others as a sugared candy drink that buries the base. The one constant: it's very, very sweet.
Aroma profilePeople who love sweet, dessert-style sippers
Anyone avoiding sugar or wanting a dry, traditional rum
Style & occasion: Sweet & dessertSipping neat
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Yes, if you're after sweet, dessert-like rums for sipping neat.
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What does the community say?
253 community reviews
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Review by heckto🥃
Most helpful positive review
A smoky chocolate flavor with a warm plum finish. Vanilla and caramel round out the flavor profile. However, the added sugar is quite strong and dominates on the palate and in the nose. A clear recommendation for sweet rum lovers.
Review by Sebastian Kornett
Most helpful critical review
Sugar with flavors, glycerin, water and alcohol at an overpriced price.
Review by Thunderbird
Sweet dried plum and raisin, chocolate and cinnamon... all of that rushes powerfully into the nose and continues on the palate! Creamy, almost liqueur-like, the rum spreads out. In the finish, alongside chocolate and dried plum, a touch of bittersweet chocolate joins in! Overall, this rum gives me the impression it wants to be more of a dessert... but a delicious one.
Review by Jürgen Gigl
Back in the glass after a long time and still good...
Review by BTHHo 🥃
The taste offers notes of cedar wood, vanilla, caramel, golden fruits and molasses.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Day 23 of my Christmas Calendar. Still find it very sweet and lightly spicy with flowery notes and some Christmas spices. -------- Another sweet rum from Riise with a burnt smoky palate and finish. Still too sweet for my palate but a well rounded rum all the same.
Review by Beach-and-Rum 🏖️🌴
Wow. Extremely sweet. A really great dessert, but not a typical rum. Tastes chocolaty, slightly fruity. Despite the sweetness many facets come through. I can definitely recommend this rum for all sweet rum fans.
Review by Rainer
For me as a rum newcomer, a real experience. Since I currently prefer sweeter rums, this rum is an absolute hit. A pleasant mix of various aromas with a balanced sweetness. I can only describe the mouthfeel as gentle yet an experience.
Review by cigares
A rum with a wonderful Virgin Islands base, but spoiled by kitschy taste additions like strawberry flavoring and other flavors that seem rather unnatural.More a kitsch dessert than a rum.But the base of this rum fascinates me, you can feel it between the sweet additions, but you have to make an effort ;-)
Review by Yannick93
A very sweet dessert rum. On the nose, it comes across pleasantly soft with hints of chocolate, caramel, and fruit. On the palate, you can possibly recognize the fruit as citrus, maybe orange. You also find the sweetness and chocolate from the aroma again, and in the background, my pleasant rum base is noticeable. The finish is soft, sweet, and has a slight touch of ginger spice. All in all, a successful rum if you like it sweet and chocolaty.
Review by Old Sport
Nose: caramel, rose jam, blackcurrants, vanilla, dried fruit, powdered sugar Flavor: raspberries, blackberries, toffee, lemons and oranges, pineapple, cherries in liqueur, cinnamon Finish: ginger, dark chocolate, blackberries, orange peel, sugar Very enjoyable rum. I know it's very sweet, but I like every type of rum, both very sweet and super dry.
Review by Oliver
Liquid dessert.
Review by Malte
Very high residual sugar content, you have to like it. A little sticky on the nose, irritating at first, but not disturbing. Otherwise a wonderfully long finish of wonderful aromas.
Review by AllanbergDK
Fantastic.. Best NPU from AH Riise
Review by Tom Buteneers
First time in a long time trying this. Had some tiramisu and decided to pair this with it, but it’s actually sweeter. The tiramisu at least has a bit of bitterness from the coffee. Far too much sugar for my palate nowadays. Scored it way higher in the past. Only way this bottle will ever be emptied, is by adding it to a coffee or maybe ask my girlfriend to make a rum cake with it. Or perhaps over ice cream in stead of caramel sauce. I can’t seem to enjoy it anymore.
Review by Dirk E.
For my taste it should be a 100 but you never know if a better one will come. Cherry, chocolate, caramelized.
Review by Tim
Very different on the nose from other A.H. Riise. Intense artificial fruit mix of strawberry, banana, melon and cherry embedded in candy. Could also be a liquid chewing gum. Stands out, but the question remains what was artificially created here. If you consider this spirit as an expensive dessert liqueur, it can be rated as pleasant. Price-wise somewhere around rip-off.
Review by MJ72
Round and heavy aroma of leather and caramel, very sweet in taste, with caramel and little wood, very mild.
Review by Juergen63
Great dark color, caramel taste and aroma.
Review by beimii
Very sweet, like a liqueur. Instead of a dessert. How much gr sugar was the dosage? Overpriced!
Review by Sven.S
A very soft and round taste. More of a dessert flavor.
Review by Maxi Jones
Very pleasant stuff, I would buy it again anytime.
Review by LukaŽiga
8:On the nose, we discover a very dark Riise. First coffee, then lots of molasses, black, thick and licorice-like, creamy orange, dark chocolate. This thickness is enveloping and even heady, reminiscent of a very sweet coffee or a burnt, buttery caramel. The brand's trademark candy character is present, but for now it's smoldering under the ashes. It's the aeration that will deliver all the unbridled confectionery we're used to from these rums. Candies join the party: cherry marshmallows, strawberries, tangy banana. 7,8:On the palate, the attack is very soft, then gives way to a whiff of Christmas spices. Another of the brand's signatures, these spices are indeed present. A torrent of vanilla then carries off a host of sweets: milk-strawberry candy, cherry lollipop, creamy orange, vanilla whipped cream. 7,2:In the finish, licorice finds a small place, surrounded above all by a world of powdered sugar.
Review by Birken Weiler
Very sweet and fruity, maybe even too sweet for me.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Take the already very sweet non plus ultra and add the flavors of gummy bananas, strawberry cream candies and pink cocktail cherries and again an extra portion of industrial sugar and a little more caramel... Et voilà: black edition. Mic drop, over and out. Sorry but no, just no.
Review by Flo89
Sweet, easy to drink, no sharpness, "but" rum spirit
Review by primus
Surprisingly clean nose, flattering baking aromas, caramel, dark chocolate. Unfortunately a sugar bomb on the palate. The only interesting thing are the strawberry flavors, which I didn't know otherwise, but which fell into my glass with 20 cubes of sugar.
Review by Jennifer
S: Good, unfolds, at first you think uh?! 🤔… but then …👍🏼 8.8 J: Also very sweet but different aromas than 👆🏻(founders reserve) less spicy, more dried fruit-raisins chocolaty, tastes "more grown-up" balanced, unfolds well 8
Review by Mike Andersen
Best Rum I have tasted. AH 175 year anniversary is a bit sweeter for people who like this I would recommend that one
Review by Steffmaus🇩🇰
Emptied out the bottle, hence the insane amount in the glass. Pleasant sipper as an entry into the world of rum. Sweet and interesting nose. Very sweet taste, with notes of vanilla, caramel and molasses
Review by Chris71
If you like sweet rum - perfect
Review by 86ER
Can't get better than this 👌🏻
Review by Rumbaer
Wir hatten den Riise Non Plus Ultra zwei mal auf einem Tasting probiert. Von allen probierten Riise bisher war er der "Beste". Er ist aber, so wie alle Riise, direkt im Geruch erkennbar. Die erkennt man blind, ebenso wie den Riise typischen Geschmack. Einfach gnadenlos überzuckert. Der Zucker überdeckt fast alle Aromen und dafür einen solchen Preis aufzurufen empfinde ich als sehr fragwürdig.
Review by Kay Meertens
Based on the name I was hoping for some darker notes in this one, but it smells and tastes more like a Pink Edition. Marshmallow and cotton candy. That does imply that there's less orange peel in the taste than in the rest of the range.
Review by Gregor
Creme Brule, butterscotch in the face! But unfortunately much too sweet
Review by denny2195
Very mild and sweet in smell, smells of chocolate and vanilla. Very pleasant sweetness in taste, you immediately taste the chocolate and caramel as well as the vanilla notes. I have to say a successful rum.
Review by Michal S
Too much sugar, which rather suppresses the character of the rum. It can be drunk, but the drunken rum drinker is unlikely to enjoy it.
Review by rum_sk
Probably the best of non plus ultra series along with the regular npu. I like this one actually. Plus it has a nice bottle although the clear one is nicer.
Review by Jo Hoo
25.05.2026: For me too sweet. Dessert rum.
Review by Ginger & Fred
A very sweet rum spirit but not too sweet. Warm mouthfeel. More of a dessert than a rum. But tastes delicious. Can be made!
Review by Scotty1960
Already very sweet, with a mild fruity taste and a long-lasting almond and mild fruit finish
Review by Jindrich Strobl
Way too sweet for my taste
Review by hoex
To sweet / hubba bubba
Review by Korkennase🥃
The absolute sweet rum king. The nose is taken by the sweetness and reminds me of brandy beans 😵. The sweetness is also very dominant in the taste, as well as in the finish. The Plantation XO was already a sugar bomb but this rum can top that. Who stands on sweet rums is in good hands here. Too bad that such a product is so messed up with sugar... sorry..., I can not understand. For science 🥃.
Review by SaibotZtar
sweet,sweeter...sweetest...
Review by Nicolas Kröger
Probably the worst product I have ever drunk. So pumped full of aromas that they come across as bitter and caustic - even the enormous sweetness cannot compensate for that.
Review by Johannes
Sweet, artificial flavors with chocolate, orange, fruits.
Review by Blockzeitwilli
Nase ist schon sehr süß und künstlich. Am Gaumen dann diese Cocktailkirsche die alles überdeckt und noch süßer. Abgang sehr süß und kurz. Für mich geht der eher als Likör durch. Bin selten hart in meinem Urteil. Aber sorry, so gar nicht mein Fall.
Review by Kasper
Well crafted candy rum but not at all my taste. Second taste: sticking with score. Really good if you want to present a sweet dessert from for people that don't like rum.
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435 bottles logged by 379 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
32% opened, 37 emptied.
What does A.H. Riise Non Plus Ultra Black Edition Rum cost?
Community paid 75–110 €.
Current best price: 89.90 € – within the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 90 €. Price history with 2 auction results in RX+ ›
+16 additions in the last 3 months.
Additions per month over the last 12 months; dark bars: the last 3.
435 purchased · 692 tasted · 258 wishlist · as of
Details about A.H. Riise Non Plus Ultra Black Edition Rum
A spirit drink on a rum base from Virgin Islands, bottled by A.H. Riise, at 42%.
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