Category: Rum

Curacao / Daily Mix / Rum / Twofer Tuesday

Curacao Rum Runner

One of the best ways to enjoy a good aged rum like the El Dorado 15-year is with a simple mix called the CURACAO RUM RUNNER. If you’ve got orange bitters, it’s just a two-ingredient cocktail with no citrus additions....

Daily Mix / Grenadine / Orange Juice / Pineapple Juice / Rum

Bahama Mama

The BAHAMA MAMA is a warm-weather drink of choice when you’re in the mood for a fruity tropical rum cocktail. If you have its five main ingredients, just a couple of minor extras will finish the mix. REQUIREMENTS: white rum,...

Cointreau (orange liqueur) / Daily Mix / Rum

Acapulco

The ACAPULCO is an extraordinarily refreshing light rum-based drink. It’s a cocktail offspring of the Daiquiri and Margarita, less the tequila. It can be mixed with fresh lime juice, but is actually even better with Rose’s bottled lime juice. Requirements:...

Cognac / Brandy / Daily Mix / Orange Juice / Rum

Bolero

This dark rum & brandy version of the BOLERO is fruity, yet complex. The proportions in the mix largely depends on your taste for dark rum (I prefer Myers’s Dark). My favored mix emphasizes the dark rum, but still has...

Bitters / Daily Mix / Grenadine / Rum

Planter’s Punch

The PLANTER’S PUNCH is the purest and simplest of the rum punches. It’s also likely the strongest, with 3 oz. of dark rum in each serving. Even without the addition of pineapple or orange juice — as in the Rum...

Daily Mix / Midori (melon) / Rum

Melon Daiquiri

The MELON DAIQUIRI offers two serving possibilities for the fan of melon-flavored cocktails: (1) Shaken and poured into an Old-Fashioned glass filled with ice, or (2) blended and poured frozen into a margarita glass. Both drinks require light rum, Midori...

Cointreau (orange liqueur) / Daily Mix / Gin / Pernod / Rum

White Lilly

The WHITE LILLY is an icy-looking mix and an amazing martini-like cocktail. It’s clean and strong like the Vesper, but fuller flavored and mildly sweeter. The equal parts gin, light rum and Cointreau make it an easy cocktail to remember....