🏝️ Rum Cocktails

Tropical escapes and tiki classics built on white, dark and aged rums from around the world. ← All 57 Classics

daiquiri🏝️ Rum Classic
Easy~20% ABVShake

Classic Daiquiri

by Jennings Cox · Cuba, 1900
Ingredients
  • 60ml White Rum
  • 30ml Fresh lime juice
  • 22.5ml Simple syrup (1:1)
  • Lime wheel to garnish
Method

Dry shake 5 seconds, add ice, shake hard 12 seconds. Double strain into a frozen coupe. Garnish with a thin lime wheel on the rim.

dark and stormy🏝️ Rum
Easy~12% ABVBuild

Dark & Stormy

by Gosling's Brothers · Bermuda, 1920s
Ingredients
  • 60ml Gosling's Black Seal Dark Rum
  • 120ml Ginger beer
  • Juice of ½ lime · Lime wedge
Method

Fill a highball with ice. Squeeze lime, drop in wedge. Pour ginger beer then float dark rum over the back of a spoon. Do not stir — the storm is the rum cloud floating on the ginger sea.

mojito🏝️ Rum Classic
Easy~10% ABVBuild & Swizzle

Mojito

by La Bodeguita del Medio · Havana, 1940s
Ingredients
  • 60ml White Rum · 30ml Fresh lime juice
  • 2 tsp White sugar · 8 Fresh mint leaves
  • Soda water to top · Mint sprig
Method

Gently press mint with sugar in a highball. Add lime and rum. Fill with crushed ice and churn. Top with soda water. Spank the mint against your palm before adding — it releases the oils.

hemingway daiquiri🏝️ Rum Classic
Easy~18% ABVShake

Hemingway Daiquiri

by Constante Ribalaigua · El Floridita, Havana, 1930s
Ingredients
  • 60ml White Rum · 30ml Fresh grapefruit juice
  • 15ml Maraschino liqueur · 15ml Fresh lime juice
  • (No sugar — Hemingway was diabetic)
Method

Shake hard with lots of ice. Double strain into a frozen coupe. Add 5ml simple syrup if you're less committed to suffering than Hemingway was. He reportedly drank 12 per session at El Floridita.

cuba libre🏝️ Rum Classic
Easy~10% ABVBuild

Cuba Libre

by US Army Captain · Havana, Cuba, 1900
Ingredients
  • 60ml Dark or Gold Rum (Havana Club 7)
  • Cola (Mexican Coke preferred) · Juice of ½ lime
  • Lime wedge
Method

Fill a highball with ice. Squeeze lime, drop in wedge. Add rum, top with cola. It's not just rum and Coke — the lime makes it a Cuba Libre ("Free Cuba"), a toast after the Spanish-American War.