Kraken Black Spiced

A cool name and a cool bottle. The rum is good, but nothing special. I find it too sweet, but I still drink it sometimes. Perfect as a starting point in rum knowledge. Drink it if you’re new at sipping rum

...or you may get one of those "please God let me get through this" hangovers. Way to much sugar. Way to much alcohol at 47%. And a nice bit of spice but it is buried too far behind the sugar and alcohol. Not the worst spiced rum I have tried but please, as the saying goes, "enjoy responsibly" or you may get a Kraken headache at the very least. I stick with Brinley or Foursquare if I am in the mood for a spiced rum.

This is one of the reasons many folks don’t like rum: it’s harsh and syrupy with very little nuance.

I found this one perfect to mix with pepsi lemon :)

This rum will drag you through the seaweed and cough you back up onto frosty shores.

The smell was very pleasant. Very soft. A bit toffee- coffee-like. And at the first sip, I tasted exactly the same. Coffee-toffee in a smooth way. And in the cola he’s also doing his job. I give it an 7.

A lovely mixable taste you can keep on drinking and does not break the bank

Tasted at Laka Lono on 9/8/21. Pours black. Vanilla aroma, not much else. Honey and carob- strong sweetness. 94 proof burn. Shockingly, this does not suck. Slightly reminds me of the old Vandermint of the 1970s.

The first time I tasted The Kraken I immediately donated the bottle to a friend. If one gets past the astonishingly potent first impression that it's been distilled from some kind of waste vinyl there's nothing left to say anything positive about. This is a beverage aimed at people who know nothing about beverages and, especially, nothing about rum. If they made it with straight ethanol rather than holding up this woeful pretense of being any kind of rum at all it would probably be better ... and more honest. Avoid.

There is a lot of sugar in this rum so it is called a spicy rum. I do not consider it a rum. Despite this, it tastes okay and is perfect to mix with cola.