Bumbu The Original
Those who love very sweet, flavoured spirits and dessert-style drinks, especially beginners or party drinkers looking for an easy, banana-vanilla sipper over ice or in sweet cocktails.
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How does this rum taste?
Fans love the candy-like banana, caramel and easy sipping; critics call it cloying, artificial and more liqueur than rum. Overall seen as a fun dessert/entry bottle if you enjoy sweetness.
If you enjoy Don Papa, Kraken or spiced/liqueur-like rums, this will hit the same sweet, banana-caramel spot—just know it’s heavily sugared and more treat than traditional rum.
Anyone avoiding added sugar, seeking dry or complex rum character, or sensitive to artificial flavouring and low ABV spirits that drink more like liqueurs.
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Süßrum, vollreife Banane
Well, what to say. Bumbu is one of my most favorite rums of all time. In the Fun for your buck ratio it doesn't have much contenders at all. Fruity and bananas. Mnam dopici.
Very sweet rum with a predominance of banana in the sensory aspect. In mouth it takes very well and is pleasant. It goes very well with a marijuana cigar and grilled meat. Salu! 🥃
Who likes banana, will also like Bumbu.many of my acquaintances speak of a "women's rum". I disagree, I like it very much. Smell and taste very "bananig", yet a real rum with slight sharpness. Of course, also sweet, but R.H. Riise is partly much sweeter.