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Brühler Whiskyhaus Rumbastic Jamaica 2004 70cl bottle
Aged rum · 19 years · 55.7%

Brühler Whiskyhaus Rumbastic Jamaica 2004

Most tasters land on "good, not a stunner" — a mellow, bourbon-forward Jamaican that several peg as a Worthy Park. The nose fools you into thinking whisky: malt, vanilla, bourbon. On the palate you get young banana, more vanilla and a bit of chocolate fudge. At cask strength the alcohol reads a touch hot and not fully knit in. Easy sipping over analysis.

The community says
  • Bourbon-forward nose
  • Round and balanced
  • But: Heat not integrated

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How does Brühler Whiskyhaus Rumbastic Jamaica 2004 taste?

Summarized by AI from 14 community reviews.

Mellow, bourbon-forward Jamaican pot still A well-liked everyday pot-still Jamaican, marked down mainly for slightly unintegrated heat. One lone reviewer hated a sweet-wine finish, but the crowd calls it round and balanced.

Perfect for

bourbon drinkers wanting a gentle Jamaican

Less suitable for

funk chasers wanting loud ester punch

Experience level · Explorer (3/5)

Style & occasion: Mature & oakyTropical & funkySipping neat

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

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What does the community say?

8.0/10 Very good

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

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8–9 21%
7–8 71%
6–7 0%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 7%

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Review by Johannes

Most helpful positive review

Johannes
Aug 20233,209 reviewsGermany
8.1/10

I like it a lot! Would have to be a Worthy Park. Very nice round and balanced.

Review by Johnny Rumcask

Most helpful critical review

Johnny Rumcask
Sep 2023226 reviewsGermany
1.8/10

Some disgusting sweet wine finish almost completely flattens the distillate. Disgusting.

Review by Thunderbird

Thunderbird
Oct 20231,385 reviewsGermany
7.9/10

Probably a WP, at a pleasant drinking strength. A successful bottling without highs and lows, as they say: Fits 👍🏻

Details about Brühler Whiskyhaus Rumbastic Jamaica 2004

A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Brühler Whiskyhaus, at 55.7%.

CountryJamaica
CategoryPot Still Rum
Raw materialMolasses
DistillationPot Still
ABV55.7%
Age19 years
Vintage2004
Bottled2023
Limited edition142 bottles
Sugar0 g/L
Volume70cl

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Jamaica

Country

Jamaica 

Avg Rating 8.3/10 over 2,700 Rums

No rum is more imitated than Jamaican rum. This is the home of funk, the fruity, overripe-banana intensity that drinkers call hogo, made in the biggest pot stills outside Irish whiskey. When the rest of the Caribbean moved to the column still, Jamaica kept the pot still as its house style, and that stubbornness is exactly why its rum is so prized today.

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