Tapping House Dark

Very smooth great straight up with a coke chasers.
Did I say it was smooth?
It has a nice smell and a wonderfully after taste.
Normally I drink captain Morgan's private stock spiced rum.
Whle this is not classified as a spiced rum it has a wonderful flavor for a dark rum.
Its not really dark in color.
The price is great .
I would be happy to pay more.

Nice mild flavor on the rocks. Very good mixer with coke.

Good aged rum taste. Excellent value but I like a more mature composition than this rum provides. It appears that there is a divide among my Rum colleagues on the benefits of “alcohol” strength/taste and/or tastes of superior spririts like aged scotch and other whiskies. I lean toward strong, aged rums with pronounced “aged”, alcohol flavors. I drink my rums on the rocks exclusively. If you like a good aged/dark rum that is not overpowering (with a good price) go for it.

It's a good rum for the price, better than most in fact. A little harsh, not really smooth or sweet enough to drink neat, but nice in mixed cocktails.

I don't understand some of the bad raps, the bottle I just opened has a very clean, but a bit light, aroma, and flavor, it doesn't have a lot of depth or complexity, but it's an easy drinking "lite dark" rum. No great distinction, but no faults, and for the price a pretty good deal. You want a profound rum, you'll likely pay twice as much or more.

One thing I'm thinking, reading the other ratings, is that this is a good example of how much we taste things differently, chances are good that no two people taste anything exactly the same, just as none of us have the same fingerprints. So, drink what you like!

I was disappointed with Tapping House Dark Rum. The smell coming off this bottle when I poured myself a "Rocks" made me immediately think of being trapped in a ER room in a sanitarium somewhere in the third world. Eeehg! (no, that's not a real word, just my expression) the flavor was almost bland, it's like they filtered all the impurities out of the rum, but forgot to put the flavor back when they were through- If you are going to spend your money, there are MUCH tastier Rums out there for around the same price.

Yep, you can taste the molasses and you can sip it, but basically a very simple dark rum not worth the price. A typical over hyped Total Wine exclusive.

The first sniff reminded me of the faint smell of cigarettes. Really? no, maybe it's something else. Sniff again....ok, try to think of sweet caramel sugar cane...nope, still smells like cigarettes. I'm not fond of cigarettes, especially in my rum.

Aroma - Nil.
Taste like nothing.
After - rubbing alcohol?
Hey this is definitely a “you get what you pay for” rum. $13/$14
In its defense it’s okay as a rum and coke. But definitely lower shelf.

Intense and bitter. Dark molasses like. Rough on the rocks, not good with coke.