Captain Morgan Dark Rum
Loved by Paul Abrahams
A basic, supermarket dark rum with sweet molasses, caramel, cocoa and roasted notes. Community drinkers mainly use it with cola or in simple cocktails; a few find it sippable but most see it as strictly mixing material.
Aggregated from 101 community reviews.
- Cheap mixer
- Molasses character
- Roasted notes
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How does Captain Morgan Dark Rum taste?
Aggregated from 101 community reviews.
Budget dark rum mainly for mixing A basic, supermarket dark rum with sweet molasses, caramel, cocoa and roasted notes. Community drinkers mainly use it with cola or in simple cocktails; a few find it sippable but most see it as strictly mixing material.
Casual drinkers wanting a cheap, sweet dark rum for rum & cola or simple longdrinks, where a basic molasses and roasted profile is all that’s needed.
Enthusiasts seeking complexity, clean sipping rum, or a dry profile; anyone sensitive to alcohol harshness or who dislikes pronounced sweetness.
How is Captain Morgan Dark Rum rated?
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Based on 101 ratings
Review by Paul Abrahams
Lots of rich black treacle molasses with a notable hit of oaky vanilla goodness.
Review by BjörnNi 🥃
Mit Coke oder in Cocktails okay
Review by Timo Groeger
Surprisingly good in my opinion. Must rate it better than the rest of the community. Tastes very spicy and slightly woody, but it goes down my throat well. Can also be drunk neat and not just with cola ;-)
Review by LukaŽiga
6:The nose opens with the rather sweet, gourmand side of a Jamaican rum, made of banana and a drop of resin.Then we get pepper, coconut and orange seem to lead us towards Barbados, while mingled wood and walnuts would guide us more towards Guyana. Plum and other black fruit tannins spice things up a bit, as does the slightly dreadnought, metallic leaning that follows. The profile is rich but rather rough, like a typical navy rum.Aeration rounds out the edges, while caramel, molasses and licorice round out the woodiness. A surprising touch of cane juice or honey enriches the nose considerably. It continues to become more complex, with spices, vegetal notes and walnuts that give it a slightly oxidized aperitif wine feel. The rum becomes softer, less rough. The oak is more mellow, spreading out into nuts and cocoa. 5,5:The palate is soft on entry, revealing a sweet, juicy fruitiness that had been on the back burner until now. Molasses and wood then mingle in a smoother ambience, leading on to coffee and toasted nuts. All these notes remain light and well-balanced, until the toastiness takes over and swarms the taste buds. 5:On the finish, the same dark, roasted notes persist, with black coffee and roasted nuts.
Review by Émile Shevek
It has its own sweet note of cocoa and others of roasted, forest and spices, not as bad as it sounds
Review by zabo
This rum has nothing to do with the Captain Morgan that I got as a sample from TheDunderhut. I also got another bottle of the Captain, when it was still distilled in Jamaica, here in the forum for a split. The taste is worlds apart, although the original bottling is unfortunately not a unicorn either.
Review by Gregor
No sugar. That's already a positive. Strong tones of wood and roasted notes. Unfortunately a little medicinal in both smell and taste. But I thought it would be much worse. But solid for mixing. Although there are better ones
Review by w00tAN
Blind verkostest: Das Zeug genau gibt es hier im Urlaub, Havanna wäre mir lieber. Adhoc in der Nase denkt man noch, könnte ein sehr einfacher Rum aus Guyana sein El Dorado 3 oder sowas aber dann kommt etwas das eher nach Old Monk schmeckt. Wird mir selbst in der Cola zu süß/komisch.
Review by Jan Lu
Not really good. But at least it's better than all the "spiced" varieties. The cola is next to it for a reason. Classic supermarket rum. Okay for mixing but nothing more. Wouldn't buy it again.
Review by Rumpalumpa
better than the regular Captain Morgan. it has clear notes of black molassen jamaican rum like myers, or even Worthy Park 109, just quite a lot less refined and with a rather strong alcoholic burn. Usable for drinks that ask for a blackstrap kind of rum
Review by Rumbaer
Woah ist der schlimm.... Bekam ihn gestern im RumCola serviert und er schmeckt einfach nur grausam. Scharf, beißend, alkoholisch, Melasse. Ja er steht im Supermarkt aber echt, lasst die Finger davon. Es wird euch nur enttäuschen. Ich habe daa Glas nicht ausgetrunken.
Review by Tim
This one was not good, even for mixing not necessarily suitable. Then rather still the normal Captain Morgan.
Review by Schnapsschuesse
Very surprising and strange nose. Mocha, chocolate, in the background bacon and smoke.Especially mocha also pulls through the taste, but it also becomes quite tangy. The box is nowhere near as bad as expected, though. Long drinks should work, and otherwise: surprisingly bad for the tenner.
Review by Alvaro Mateos
Ron malo. No me gustó en absoluto
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Community purchases
157 bottles logged by 147 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
31% opened, 18 emptied and repurchased.
What does Captain Morgan Dark Rum cost?
Community paid €9–€21.
Current best price: €17.95 – within the typical community range.
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157 purchased · 107 tasted · 14 wishlist · as of
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