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Skipper Dark Rum
Anyone building a rum and coke or an easy navy-style cola drink is the real audience here. It's a soft, sweet Guyana blend with molasses, coffee, toffee and dark chocolate, plus a surprisingly peppery finish. Several tasters find it thin and one-dimensional neat, and more than one calls the caramel and vanilla notes artificial. Fine in a mixer, underwhelming in a tasting glass.
The community says- Easy with cola
- Toffee and coffee
- But: Tastes sweetened
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How does Skipper Dark Rum taste?
Aggregated from 19 community reviews.
Sweet, thin Demerara-style mixing rum Most agree this is a mixing rum, not a sipper: sweet, watery and flat neat, but toffee and coffee come forward with cola. One taster flatly called it "too much sugar for me."
People who want a cheap, sweet Demerara-style rum for cola and cocktails
Anyone wanting a bold, dry rum to sip neat, or who avoids sugar
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How is Skipper Dark Rum rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 7.1 sits 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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What does the community say?
58% rate it between 6 and 8. 6 selected write-ups from 19 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
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 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 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 JFehr
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Avg. community purchase price 26 €
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Details about Skipper Dark Rum
A Navy Rum from Guyana, at 40%.
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Community purchases
23 bottles logged by 22 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
30% opened, 2 emptied and repurchased.
What does Skipper Dark Rum cost?
Current best price: 27.50 €.
23 purchased · 20 tasted · 15 wishlist · as of
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