MHOBA Bushfire
Most love it as a wild, smoky “liquid barbecue” with great originality; critics find it unbalanced, thin and overwhelmingly meaty. Consensus: a creative, polarizing but solidly made experiment.
Smoke-loving rum or peated whisky fans who want an intense, dry, BBQ‑like sipper or mixer with bacon, campfire and woody notes at a fair price.
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How does this rum taste?
Liquid barbecue for smoke freaks
If you enjoy peated whisky or heavily smoked cocktails, this will fascinate you; if you mainly like sweet, easy rums, the BBQ meat-and-ash profile will probably be too much.
Beginners, anyone sensitive to high ABV or heavy smoke, and drinkers seeking fruity, sweet, or classic Mhoba funk without meaty, savory notes.
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About the MHOBA distillery
The MHOBA distillery is located in South Africa. Rums from MHOBA have been reviewed 2,198 times with an average of 8.2/10.
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It's a crazy rum. Never tasted something like that. Barbecue rum!
It is very intense rum. Something like unage jamaican or agricole. On the nose, it hit with a chemical nail polish like smell. In the background is smoke, fried smoked bacon. On pallet, it's nearly completely different. Inense smoke something close to smoked meat, campfire, BBQ, toasted wood. Latter fruits, something close to berry liqueur (tatratea forest fruits), and subtle black tea. Finish is medium-short smoke slowly disappear. I really love this rum. Intensity is for me on the edge; smoke is very nice and complex. The only bad thing is that this rum is too much of a vessel for smoke.
Macerated bbq wood
Auto-translatedVery unique dram. Funky high esther spirit with dry smoky braai wood and a vegetal/greenhouse taste (like the a-typical 2000s Clynelishes). I never tasted anything like this before and its weird...but its good weird you know.