Kōloa Hawaiian Kaua'i Coffee Rum

Continuing Koloa Tasting with distiller Bob Gunter (Tasted 6th) Per the Distiller: Their standard white rum infused with cold brew coffee. 3.23.22 Served: Neat, Flute Bottle Open: Same Day Last intake: Cacao Rum Aroma: Cold Brew and chocolate. Flavor: Old coffee, baking cocoa. Very cocoa forward coffee flavor, but unfortunately has the aftertaste of day-old hotel coffee. Worth trying in a mixed drink, but not pleasant on its own.

I’m not a big drinker of rum but I’ve heard this is award-winning and it didn’t disappoint! Everything about this screams coffee. From the rich, dark, brown color to the tasteful black and gold labeling. Not to mention the smell - coffee. A bit sweet if drinking in large quantity but not syrupy like so many other flavored liquors.

From the bottle, this has a coffee & toffee aroma and a definite sweetness. Tastes sweet and has a nice, oily mouth feel. I'm getting Kahlua-like coffee flavor. Coffee flavor is there but in candy form. May be a bit too sweet straight-up for some but should go perfectly well as a mixer. Rating based on neat sipping.

To start, this isnt a typical sipping rum. Its sweet and sugary. With that said, it has strong roasted coffee flavour with chocolate notes. Would be nice for mixing but you can drink it on its own as a dessert. Definitely more of a liqueur than a sipping rum.

I was never a fan of flavored rums becuse they are often overly sweet and taste artificial. This has a wonderful smooth, rich, natural coffee taste. The quality of the ingredients is obvious. It is the best coffee liquor that I've ever had.

It tastes sweet and chocolatey with a hint of coffee astringency. It's more of a dark chocolate liqueur. It's tasty, but simplistic. The Kahlua icing sugar flavor is not present. It isn't really sippable, but it is a good, robust flavor.