Skipper Dark Rum
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A newcomer-friendly dark Demerara-style mixer at 40%. RumX members get brown sugar, toffee, molasses, coffee and chocolate with mild spice. Simple, soft and slightly sweet, it works best with cola or in cocktails.
Aggregated from 19 community reviews.
- Good for cocktails
- Classic brown sugar
- Easy-drinking
+10
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How does Skipper Dark Rum taste?
Aggregated from 19 community reviews.
Simple, sweet Demerara-style cocktail rum A newcomer-friendly dark Demerara-style mixer at 40%. RumX members get brown sugar, toffee, molasses, coffee and chocolate with mild spice. Simple, soft and slightly sweet, it works best with cola or in cocktails.
Those who like sweet, easy dark rum with cola and want a budget Demerara-style mixer showing brown sugar, toffee and a bit of coffee/chocolate bitterness.
Anyone seeking complex, dry or high-ABV Demerara, or drinkers avoiding sugared-tasting rums and artificial-feeling caramel/vanilla notes.
How is Skipper Dark Rum rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict , 7.1 lands squarely in the "Good" band. 52% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 10% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Review by Rum Runner Labs - Will
An off brand Demerara that commits to the bit. Classic brown sugar and toffee notes on the nose, with a standard if mild palate, and a surprisingly strong finish for the proof.
Review by Montana
A pleasant smell of molasses, dark chocolate and coffee, quite spicy. The taste is also spicy, chocolate, oily and slightly burning from the alcohol. The medium-long finish is slightly sweet at first, then becoming a bit more bitter.
Review by seefarr
Too much sugar for me. Coffee and fake vanilla as well.
Review by Henry Davies
Pleasant enough nose. Really a mixing rum and it shows, fairly one dimensional in the mouth with a surprisingly peppery finish. With coke it does well, toffee notes come to the fore and certainly a solid mixing rum if looking for more of that navy style Demerara blend
Review by Johnny Rumcask
Trivial Guyana with notes of wood, toffee, a few hints of herbs and some bitterness. Too thin for mixing and even more so for sipping. You somehow get the impression that the rum has been filtered and diluted for so long that it tastes soft and not very intense.
Review by JFehr
Ziemlich langweilig
Community purchases
20 bottles logged by 20 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
30% opened, 2 emptied and repurchased.
20 purchased · 20 tasted · 14 wishlist · as of
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