20 Classic Rum Cocktails You Must Try
Cocktail lovers may feel excited to know that some best cocktails can be created by using rum. Rum cocktails are usually made by adding sweet, sour, and fruity flavors. Sugarcanes are used in the making of rum and it is invented in the 18th century. Whatever occasion you are celebrating rum-based cocktails are perfect for enhancing the mood of every occasion.
There are spiced rum cocktails, dark rum cocktails, white rum cocktails, coconut rum cocktails, tropical rum cocktails, Bacardi rum cocktails, Mailbu rum cocktails, and Christmas rum cocktails. Here we will discuss some simple rum cocktails along with their making process. So, let’s get started.
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Classic Daiquiri Rum cocktail
Classic Daiquiri is one of the most classic rum cocktails. It is a well-balanced drink invented in 1800 and it is served directly in a cocktail glass.
Ingredients:
- White rum
- Simple syrup
- Lemon juice
- Ice
Recipe:
Take a cocktail shaker and add white rum, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a 3:2:1 ratio. Add some ice and shake it well so that it becomes chilled. Pour it into a cocktail glass and serve chilled with a lemon wedge.
Classic Pina Colada
Pina colada is one of the best rum cocktails. It was founded in 1954. In this drink, you will get the flavor of rum, coconut, and pineapple juice.
Ingredients:
- Old rum
- Pineapple juice
- Frozen pineapple
- Cream of coconut
- Lemon juice
- Ice
- Cocktail cherry for presentation
Recipe:
This is a simple recipe. First, you need to blend frozen pineapple and ice to break them into chunks. Then add the rest ingredients and run the blender till the mixture becomes smooth. Strain into a glass and decorate it with a cocktail cherry and fancy umbrella pipe before serving.
Classic Rum Mojito
Classic rum mojito is a combination of rum, fresh mint leaves, and fresh lemon. This cocktail offers a sweet taste and it is refreshing as well. This is one of the cocktails with Bacardi rum
Ingredients:
- Rum
- Fresh mint
- Lemon juice
- Soda water
- Simple syrup
- Ice
Recipe:
To prepare this drink to add mashed mint leaves, rum, fresh lemon juice, and syrup into a cocktail shaker and mix well. Strain the drink into a glass add soda water from the top and garnish it with a lemon slice, and mint leaves.
Rum Punch Cocktail
Rum punch is a historical drink. The main concept originated in the 17th century. It offers sweet, tropical, and fruity notes.
Ingredients:
- Dark rum
- White rum
- Orange juice
- Pineapple juice
- Grenadine
- Lemon juice
- Cocktail cherry
Recipe:
Add dark and white rum in a 1:1 ratio. To the rum add pineapple juice and orange juice in a 2:1 ratio, and add half lemon juice. Mix everything well and add grenadine from the top. Add a cocktail cherry and orange slice before you serve the drink.
Dark and Stormy Cocktail
This is a refreshing highball cocktail that can be made using three things. This is fit for any time and occasion.
Ingredients:
- Dark rum
- Ginger beer
- Lemon wedge
- Ice
Recipe:
Add ice into a highball glass and add ginger beer. Then add rum, and lemon juice, and mix them well and your drink is ready to serve.
Cuba Libra
Cuba libra is a simple Cuban cocktail. This cocktail has a prolonged history and offers subtle, refreshing aromas.
Ingredients:
- Aged rum
- Cola
- Lemon wedges
- Ice
Recipe:
In a highball glass add lemon wedges and mash them lightly so that their juice can be extracted. Then add rum and ice. Mix all ingredients, and pour cola from the top.
Mai Tai
Mai Tai is a classic drink from the 1940s. It is an intricate drink made with rum, orange liqueur, and fancy orgeat syrup. It is sweet with vanilla and nutty aromas with contrasting citrus.
Ingredients:
- Dark rum
- Aged rum
- Orange liqueur
- Orgeat syrup
- Lemon
Recipe:
Take a cocktail shaker and add aged rum, orange liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lemon. Add ice and mix all ingredients. Add dark rum on top of the drink, strain it into a glass, and serve.
Hurricane cocktail
Hurricane cocktail is a drink made with dark rum. Passion fruit syrup offers it tropical hints, and grenadine makes it a little sweet and has a nice rosy golden tint.
Ingredients:
- Dark rum
- Light rum
- Passion fruit syrup
- Grenadine
- Orange juice
- Lemon juice
- Ice
Recipe:
Add all the materials into a jar, and add ice cubes. Shake everything to make a chilled drink. Then strain the drink into a glass and garnish it with some orange slices, and cocktail cherry.
Old Cuban Cocktail
An old Cuban cocktail is a Mojito topped with champagne. This beverage is invented in early 2000. It offers the freshness of mints, with intricate flavors of vanilla, and coconut.
Ingredients:
- Aged rum
- Mint
- Simple syrup
- Lemon
- Champagne
- Angostura bitters
- Ice
Recipe:
For preparing the drink mash the mint leaves to collect the juice. Then add all the ingredients and mix well. Next is to strain the drink and top it with some sparkling wine.
Jungle Bird
Jungle Bird is a complex drink with fruity aromas. You will get sweet, bitter, fruity, and bitter tastes together in this single drink.
Ingredients:
- Dark rum
- Campari
- Lemon juice
- Pineapple juice
- Simple syrup
- Ice
Recipe:
Add all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake well. Strain the mixture into a glass and garnish it with a pineapple wedge, fresh mint, or pineapple leaves.
Strawberry Daiquiri
Strawberry Daiquiri offers a resort feeling of the 1990s. This is a sweet drink with the aromas of berries.
Ingredients:
- White rum
- Maple syrup
- Frozen strawberries
- Lemon extract
- Ice
- Salt
Recipe:
Add all the ingredients into a mixer jar and run to make a smooth mixture. Then turn the mixture off, strain the mixture into a glass and garnish the drink with frozen strawberry and lemon slices and serve.
El Presidente Cocktail
El Presidente is an elegant drink hailed from Cuba. This is a combination of sweet and bitter with a hint of citrus.
Ingredients:
- Golden or aged rum
- Grand Marnier or orange curacao
- Blanc vermouth or Lillet Blanc
- Grenadine
Recipe:
Once you arrange all the ingredients you need to mix them. Then strain it into a glass and serve.
Hot Buttered Rum
Hot buttered rum is ideal to have on a cold evening. This little sweet drink contains cinnamon, allspice, and butter that offer the drink a creamy texture.
Ingredients:
- Dark rum
- Hot water
- Spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice)
- Salted butter
- Brown sugar
Recipe:
Add the spices to the butter to prepare the spiced butter. Then take the spiced butter into a glass, add other ingredients and mix well. Serve the drink hot.
Hemingway Daiquiri
Hemingway Daiquiri is a classic refreshing drink. It was discovered in the 1920s. It contains tart, and nearly bitter grapes, to balance the citrus notes of lemon, sour cherry, and almond.
Ingredients:
- White rum
- Lemon juice
- Grapefruit juice
- Maraschino liqueur
- Ice
Recipe:
This drink is a shake-and-serve cocktail. Place all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake well. Strain the mixture into a glass and serve.
Between the sheets cocktail
This is a bright and tangy cocktail. This drink is first served in 1930 at a bar in Paris.
Ingredients:
- Rum
- Cognac
- Lemon juice
- Orange liqueur
- Ice
Recipe:
Take all the ingredients and stir well till the ice dissolves. Take a glass strain the mixture and add ice from the top.
Blue Hawaii
Blue Hawaii is invented in the 1950s. Vodka is used in this drink with rum, and a secret ingredient is used to get the ocean blue color.
Ingredients:
- Vodka
- Rum
- Pineapple juice
- Blue Curacao
- Lemon juice
- Simple syrup
- Crushed ice
- Pineapple wedge
- Cocktail cherry
Recipe:
Add all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and mix them well. Strain the mixture into a glass and decorate it with cocktail cherry, and pineapple wedges.
Mary Pickford cocktail
This is a complex and straightforward drink with a little funky finishing. It is a combination of sweetness and tang due to the use of pineapple juice.
Ingredients:
- White rum
- Maraschino liqueur
- Pineapple juice
- Grenadine
- Luxardo cherry
- Ice
Recipe:
Add all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and mix it to become chilled. Then strain into a glass and garnish with a Luxardo cherry and serve.
Zombie
Zombie is made by combining four rums with two fruit syrups, and three fruit juices. It offers tropical and fruity notes.
Ingredients:
- Dark rum
- White rum
- Spiced rum
- 151 rum
- Fresh lemon juice
- Fresh lime juice
- Passion fruit syrup
- Pineapple juice
- Grenadine
- Orange bitters
- Ice
Recipe:
Add dark rum, white rum, spiced rum, fresh lime juice, lemon juice, passion fruit syrup, pineapple juice, orange bitters, and ice in a cocktail shaker. Then add grenadine and 151 rum from the top which will form a single layer. Strain the drink and serve it. You can garnish it with cherries, pineapple, and mint leaves.
Bushwacker
Bushwacker is a combination of chocolate milkshake and pina colada. It offers aromas of coffee, chocolate, and vanilla.
Ingredients:
- Aged rum
- Kahlua
- Cream of coconut
- Crème de cacao
- Ice
- Milk
- Shaved chocolate or grated nutmeg, cocktail cherry
Recipes:
Add all the ingredients into a blender and run into a smooth mixture. Then pour the mixture into a glass decorate it with shaved chocolate, and grated nutmeg, and serve.
Yellowbird
The yellow bird is a sweet and sour tasty cocktail. It offers vanilla and licorice finishing notes.
Ingredients:
- White rum
- Galliano liqueur
- Orange liqueur
- Lemon juice
- Cocktail cherry, lemon wedge
- Ice
Recipe:
Add all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Then strain the drink and garnish with cocktail cherry and lime wedge to serve.
Final words
These are the best rum cocktails that can enhance the party mood. You can name any event in the name of cocktails. Suppose you are a tropical cocktail lover you can name it tropical cocktail nyt. This way you can make and serve rum cocktails and impress your guests.
