Rum Cocktails, page 2
59 recipes, page 2 of 3
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IBA Tiki
The IBA Tiki is the newest and most elaborate drink on the official list: nine ingredients, two rums, three sweetened modifiers and a slice of fresh ginger muddled in the base. It
Jerry Can Julep
The julep is one of the oldest drink formats in the American canon, documented since the eighteenth century and for most of its history associated with bourbon, crushed ice, and
Jungle Bird
The Jungle Bird was created in 1978 at the Aviary Bar of the Kuala Lumpur Hilton, reportedly as a welcome drink for arriving guests, which makes it one of the last true classics
Knickerbocker
The Knickerbocker is the daiquiri’s New York grandfather: rum, raspberry syrup, citrus and a curaçao thread, printed by Jerry Thomas in 1862 among the first rum sours in any book,
Mai Tai
Victor "Trader Vic" Bergeron mixed the first Mai Tai in Oakland in 1944, and the story goes that his Tahitian guests took one sip and declared it maita'i roa ae: roughly, out of
Mary Pickford
The Mary Pickford is Prohibition Havana's love letter to the movies: white rum, fresh pineapple, a blush of grenadine and a whisper of maraschino, mixed in the early 1920s for the
Missionary’s Downfall
Don the Beachcomber’s menu was built on rum and thunder, and then there is this: fresh mint, pineapple and peach blended into something so green and gentle it barely seems
Mojito
The Mojito is one of the oldest Cuban cocktails on record, its roots traced to a sixteenth-century proto-version called El Draque, named after Sir Francis Drake, whose fleet
Nuclear Daiquiri
The Nuclear Daiquiri is a daiquiri with the base split between overproof Jamaican rum and green Chartreuse, and there is no sugar syrup in it at all. Ten millilitres of falernum
Old Cuban
The Old Cuban is a Mojito promoted rank by rank. Aged rum where white stood, champagne where the soda was, mint shaken rather than muddled, a coupe instead of a highball, and two
Orange Daiquiri
The Orange Daiquiri is the fruit family's subtlest member: fresh orange folded into the Cuban frame, with lime kept on at half strength to do the structural work orange cannot.
Painkiller
The Painkiller was created at the Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in the 1970s, a bar named for the fact that arriving boats had no dock and
Passion Fruit Daiquiri
The Passion Fruit Daiquiri is the shaken branch of the fruit daiquiri family and the connoisseur’s pick of it. Passion fruit’s perfumed sharpness is the rare tropical flavour that
Piña Colada
The Piña Colada is Puerto Rico’s gift to the pleasure principle, created, by the strongest of the competing claims, by Ramón “Monchito” Marrero at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan in
Planter’s Punch
Planter’s Punch is one of the oldest rum drinks in the English-speaking Caribbean tradition, with documented references stretching back to the late nineteenth century and a
Queen’s Park Swizzle
The Queen’s Park Swizzle was born at the Queen’s Park Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the 1920s, and it collected the highest praise tiki ever handed out: Trader Vic called
Rabo de Galo
Rabo de Galo means rooster's tail, which is a direct Portuguese translation of cocktail and a joke that has outlasted several explanations of itself. It is Brazil's stirred drink:
Reggae Rum Punch
The Reggae Rum Punch is Jamaica’s actual daily pour: the island’s most popular punch, sold under a dozen names from beach shacks to hotel bars, always on the same chassis of
Right Hand
The Right Hand is the rum half of a matched pair. Michael McIlroy built it on the frame Sam Ross had used for the Left Hand, bourbon with Campari, sweet vermouth and chocolate
Rum Runner
The Rum Runner was born from necessity and named for outlaws. In the early 1970s, John "Tiki John" Elber, manager of the Tiki Bar at the Holiday Isle in Islamorada, Florida Keys,
Rum Smash
The smash is the julep’s scruffier sibling: spirit, sugar, fresh mint and citrus muddled coarsely and served over crushed ice, a formula Jerry Thomas was printing in 1862 as “a
Rum Sour
The Rum Sour is the sour template with one of its oldest partners in it: aged rum, lemon and sugar in the proportions the whiskey branch of the family made famous. The template
Rum Swizzle
The Rum Swizzle is Bermuda’s other national drink, sharing the title with the Dark ’n’ Stormy and predating it comfortably: the Swizzle Inn at Bailey’s Bay has been pouring its
Rum and Coke
Two ingredients, no technique, and one of the most ordered drinks on earth. Rum and Coke has no documented inventor and no published specification. It appeared wherever American