Alfred Lamb‘s Navy Rum
An approachable, budget navy-style rum with sweet molasses, caramel, coffee and light spice. RumX members find it easy-drinking but on the thinner, weaker side for a ‘navy’ bottling—better suited to mixed drinks than neat sipping.
- Sweet molasses notes
- Caramel and coffee
- Easy-drinking
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How does Alfred Lamb‘s Navy Rum taste?
Aggregated from 24 community reviews.
Sweet, easy navy-style mixer An approachable, budget navy-style rum with sweet molasses, caramel, coffee and light spice. RumX members find it easy-drinking but on the thinner, weaker side for a ‘navy’ bottling—better suited to mixed drinks than neat sipping.
Those who like sweet, simple supermarket rums and want an easy navy-style bottle mainly for cola or simple mixed drinks at a low price.
Enthusiasts expecting a robust navy rum, high ABV fans, or anyone looking for complexity and a long, powerful finish.
How is Alfred Lamb‘s Navy Rum rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict , 6.3 lands squarely in the "Pleasant" band. 4% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 16% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Review by Stefan Persson
Tasted this navy rum at Irish Annie’s in Nerja, Spain. Alfred Lamb, the creator, is said to have blended 18 rums from Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana in 1849 to create it. The bottle is hexagonal formed and the legend says it was because the bottle shouldn’t roll around at the ships. The nose and at the palate as well as during the relatively short finish is round, spicy, sweet, nutty and woody white aromas and flavors of caramel, coffee and molasses. Overall a little too thin and weak for a navy rum in my opinion probably because of low ABV.
Review by Michael Ihmels 🇩🇪
Now a navy rum. Not bad at all, again a nice coffee and caramel note. I quite like the price-performance ratio. A sampled finish is also definitely recommended. Perhaps a little too sweet
Review by Montana
Quite a strong smell of molasses, spicy, somewhat sweet. The taste is also spicy, slightly bitter, something like dark chocolate. The finish is medium long.
Review by Filip Šikula
Historical evening with original period samples of rums from the 60's and 70's by Pavel Špaček 17.2.2025. A shipment of samples arrived from a collector from France can only surprise us. There are five of us for this, so we'll see.
Review by Pavel Spacek
... I bought a crate of 80 samples from France from one of the big rum promoters. All '70s and '70s. I don't expect anything but patois. But what the hell - you have to try everything. A priceless experience. And a lot more fun with five people. 2025-02-17
Review by martin slezák
Colour amber Aroma sweetness, caramel, coffee Flavour caramel, walnuts, molasses sweetness Short shot caramel and walnuts
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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
"If it's a Navy Rum then Pusser's, Wood's and Ancient Mariner all out rank Lamb's. Overall this isn't a bad tasting rum but it doesn't offer much beyond sweet flavours. There is no complexity like Pussers or El Dorado (even the 5-year-old offers more than Lamb's in terms of overall..."Read full review →
Community purchases
35 bottles logged by 52,000+ RumX members. The ratio of closed / opened / emptied, indicates whether this rum is meant to be drunk or is a collector's item.
Also on the wishlist of 7 members.
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