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Bundaberg Original
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Aussies raised on this one know exactly what it's for: 30% Bundy, 70% coke or ginger beer, mates and a campfire. In that setting it works. Poured neat it's a different story — rubber, solvent, aniseed and bicycle-tube phenol that one member called "rough as guts". A cultural staple back home, an acquired taste everywhere else.
The community says- Great with cola
- Keep in mind: Rough neat
- Keep in mind: Rubber & solvent
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How does Bundaberg Original taste?
From community reviews · summarized with AI
Rubbery Aussie mixer, built for cola not sipping Ratings swing wildly, and the split is really about setting: a fine mixer with cola, but neat it divides hard between nostalgic Aussies and everyone else.
Aussies at a campfire and cola mixers
anyone hoping to sip it neat
Style & occasion: Mature & oakyCocktails & mixing
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14 community reviews
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Review by Aussierumfan
When this is drunk the way it's meant to be drunk, ie 30% bundy and 70% coke/ginger beer with mates around a camp fire on a cold winters night, this is a great drink, and probably the only rum most aussies have ever had. In this setting it's perfectly acceptable and i would happily get blind on it and have done so on many an occasion. A fine, well aged sipping rum it ain't 🤪 drunk neat it's as rough as guts, however this is basically unheard of in Australia unless being done so by skulling straight out of the bottle, as a dare on your 21st birthday!! I have very fond memories of such youthful stupidity😉 If you havnt been brought up on this rum I can completely understand how you would find it an abomination!🤣🤣
Review by Gregor
Then you can also put a fahradaschlauch in vodka... This does not have much to do with rum
Review by Timo Groeger
Pub Christiansen's Hamburg December 2025. And then we're in Australia. My second Bundaberg, thanks Artur for the first :) Relatively medicinal stuff here. Otherwise still lots of solvent and rubber.
Review by Kieron Wood
Tasted 29-01-2017 This is my hell in a rum , pure aniseed flavour that takes over everything and it sadly a flavour I despise.
Review by JohnI
Definitely a mixer.
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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review ›However, I could understand people who like this not actually liking other rums. Or having much left by way of brain cells. The rum also comes in a overproof version I double checked my bottle at first to check they hadn't sent that one! This is terrible and gives rum...
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28 bottles logged by 25 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
35% opened, 2 emptied.
What did the community pay for Bundaberg Original?
Avg. community purchase price 20 €.
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Details about Bundaberg Original
A spirit drink on a rum base from Australia, distilled by Bundaberg, at 37%.
About the Bundaberg distillery
The Bundaberg distillery is located in Australia. Rums from Bundaberg have been reviewed 104 times with an average of 6.6/10.
To Bundaberg ›Read on in the RumX Guide
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