Recently, I was at the liquor store, because my uncle asked me to pick up some bourbon, and I also knew that I was running low on kraken, so I decided to maybe pick up another rum. I didn’t really know what to look for (and to some extent, I still don’t), but I knew better by this point than to get bacardi, malibu, or captain morgan. And look! There’s a rum with a cute bird on it! This was the first time I thought to actually look up reviews on reddit, and to my surprise, I couldn’t find anyone reviewing Parrot Bay white rum. Of course, there were reviews of their pineapple and coconut rum, but my liquor store didn’t have that, nor would I buy it anyway, given my prior poor experience with lemon-flavored vodka. So, I decided to buy Parrot Bay white rum, just to give it a try. The cutie parrot compelled me.

Review

Smell

It really doesn’t have much of a smell. Very neutral, with maybe a hint of almond-vanilla.

Taste

It’s got a bit of a harsh taste. It feels unaged, and other than alcohol, there’s maybe a faint taste of almond vanilla like the aroma, but other than that, I might as well be tasting vodka.

With coke zero: It doesn’t add anything to the flavor. It just tastes like booze and coke.

Also, I have always just tried liquors on their own and mixed with coke zero, but I had a thought that this might be an extremely noob way of trying it. So now I have a third tasting category- making a daiquiri with it. It’s the perfect cocktail to let a rum shine.

In a daiquiri: I mean, yeah, it just kind of disappears. I taste the lime, I taste the sweet, but the rum is so neutral, the daiquiri may as well have been made with vodka.

Verdict 3.5/10

(Edited from 5/10 on 11/30/25)

So, I have always been drawn to rum for one reason or another. My family would buy nice bourbon, cognac, vodka, tequila… and I would be the black sheep picking up a bottle of bacardi silver for myself at the liquor store. No one else in my family likes rum, but there was always something about it that I preferred, even a very cheap and neutral rum. I would say that this rum is everything that I have liked about bacardi and the captain, but also, everything that I want to move on from.

November 30, 2025 Update:

Upon re-review at a future date, I realized that I was incredibly naive with this review. It tastes like neutral spirit with a splash of malibu. The flavor is very noticeably of fake coconut added to the rum. It’s actually actively bad tasting now that I notice it, and I downgrade it significantly to a 3.5