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Bundaberg Original
Aussies raised on this one know exactly what it's for: 30% Bundy, 70% coke or ginger beer, mates and a campfire. In that setting it works. Poured neat it's a different story — rubber, solvent, aniseed and bicycle-tube phenol that one member called "rough as guts". A cultural staple back home, an acquired taste everywhere else.
The community says- Great with cola
- Rough neat
- Rubber & solvent
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How does Bundaberg Original taste?
Aggregated from 13 community reviews.
Rubbery Aussie mixer, built for cola not sipping Ratings swing wildly, and the split is really about setting: a fine mixer with cola, but neat it divides hard between nostalgic Aussies and everyone else.
Aussies at a campfire and cola mixers
anyone hoping to sip it neat
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How is Bundaberg Original rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 6.5 sits in the “Pleasant” band. 15% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 30% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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What does the community say?
46% rate it between 6 and 8. 5 selected write-ups from 13 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Aussierumfan
When this is drunk the way it's meant to be drunk, ie 30% bundy and 70% coke/ginger beer with mates around a camp fire on a cold winters night, this is a great drink, and probably the only rum most aussies have ever had. In this setting it's perfectly acceptable and i would happily get blind on it and have done so on many an occasion. A fine, well aged sipping rum it ain't 🤪 drunk neat it's as rough as guts, however this is basically unheard of in Australia unless being done so by skulling straight out of the bottle, as a dare on your 21st birthday!! I have very fond memories of such youthful stupidity😉 If you havnt been brought up on this rum I can completely understand how you would find it an abomination!🤣🤣
Review by Timo Groeger
Kneipe Christiansen's Hamburg Dezember 2025. Und dann sind wir in Australien. Mein zweiter Bundaberg, danke Artur für den ersten :) Relativ medizinisches Teil haben wir hier. Ansonsten noch viel Lösungsmittel und Gummi.
Review by Gregor
Then you can also put a fahradaschlauch in vodka... This does not have much to do with rum
Review by Kieron Wood
Tasted 29-01-2017 This is my hell in a rum , pure aniseed flavour that takes over everything and it sadly a flavour I despise.
Review by JohnI
Definitely a mixer.
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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review →However, I could understand people who like this not actually liking other rums. Or having much left by way of brain cells. The rum also comes in a overproof version I double checked my bottle at first to check they hadn't sent that one! This is terrible and gives rum...
Details about Bundaberg Original
A spirit drink on a rum base from Australia, distilled by Bundaberg, at 37%.
Community purchases
28 bottles logged by 25 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
35% opened, 2 emptied and repurchased.
28 purchased · 16 tasted · 4 wishlist · as of
About the Bundaberg distillery
The Bundaberg distillery is located in Australia. Rums from Bundaberg have been reviewed 98 times with an average of 6.6/10.
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