Rum Cocktail Recipes

Browse rum cocktail recipes with ingredients, preparation notes, and links to full Elixirate recipes.

Featured Rum Cocktails

Mojito - A classic Cuban cocktail featuring white rum, fresh mint, lime juice, sugar, and club soda. It's a refreshing, lighthearted drink with bright citrus and.
Airmail - A classic rum sour topped with sparkling wine, often described as a rum-based French 75 or a supercharged Daiquiri. It combines white or light gold rum.
Añejo Highball - A modern classic created by Dale DeGroff in the late 1990s at the Rainbow Room in New York City, this rum highball combines aged rum with orange curaçao.
Bacardi Cocktail - A historic Daiquiri variation featuring Bacardí rum, fresh lime juice, and grenadine instead of simple syrup. It was a popular pre-dinner cocktail in the.
Barracuda - A tropical sparkling cocktail created in the late 1950s by Italian bartender Benito Cuppari aboard a cruise liner. It combines gold rum, Galliano.
Blue Hawaiian - A vibrant tropical cocktail and a creamy, blue-hued variation of the Piña Colada featuring light rum, blue curaçao, pineapple juice, and cream of.
Bob Marley - A brightly colored, layered rum-based tropical cocktail with red, yellow, and green layers representing Rastafarian colors. It features grenadine.
Cuba Libre - The Cuba Libre is a classic Cuban highball cocktail made with rum, Coca-Cola, and fresh lime juice. Meaning "Free Cuba," it originated in Havana in the.
Daisy de Santiago - A refreshing Cuban twist on the Daiquiri, featuring rum, fresh lime juice, Yellow Chartreuse for herbal complexity, demerara syrup, and seltzer.
Dark 'n' Stormy - Bermuda's national cocktail, a highball of dark rum and ginger beer that originated in Bermuda. The rich, spicy rum is floated on top of ginger beer.
Divine Intervention - A rum-forward Daiquiri variation created by Ian Wolf of Shore Leave bar in Boston. It placed third in a Daiquiri Showdown during Boston Rum Week. The.
Dry Daiquiri - A modern classic created in 2005 by London bartender Kevin Armstrong. This rum sour riff on the Daiquiri adds Campari for a drying, bittersweet finish.
El Floridita Daiquiri - A classic Daiquiri variation from El Floridita bar in Havana, featuring white rum, lime juice, sugar, and a touch of maraschino liqueur for added depth.
El Presidente - A classic Cuban cocktail from the early 1900s, named after a Cuban president. It is a sophisticated, stirred rum drink akin to a Manhattan, featuring.
Fiery Passion - A refreshing, spicy rum highball featuring habanero-infused pineapple rum, passion fruit, lime, mint, and a touch of sweetness, topped with soda. Created.
Fog Cutter - A potent Tiki classic invented by Victor "Trader Vic" Bergeron in the 1940s. This multi-spirit drink combines rum, cognac, and gin with citrus and.
Hemingway Daiquiri - A classic rum cocktail inspired by Ernest Hemingway's preference for a sugarless Daiquiri at El Floridita in Havana. It features white rum, fresh lime.
Hotel Nacional Special - A 1930s Cuban classic and Daiquiri variation from Havana's Hotel Nacional, featuring rum, pineapple juice, lime, and apricot liqueur for a bright, fruity.
Hurricane - A boozy, sweet, and fruity New Orleans classic invented at Pat O'Brien's in the 1940s during a rum surplus in WWII. It features two types of rum balanced.
Kingston Negroni - A modern riff on the classic Negroni created by Joaquín Simó in 2010, substituting overproof Jamaican rum for gin to introduce funky, estery notes that.
Mai Tai - A classic Tiki cocktail invented in 1944 by Trader Vic, featuring rum, lime, orange curaçao, and orgeat. It is rum-forward, balanced with citrus and.
Mango Mojito - A refreshing tropical twist on the classic mojito, combining white rum, fresh mint, lime, and sweet mango nectar or puree for a bright, fruity, and minty.
Mary Pickford - A Prohibition-era tropical cocktail created in the 1920s in Havana, named after the actress Mary Pickford. It combines white rum and fresh pineapple.
Miami Vice - A vibrant, frozen layered cocktail that combines a Strawberry Daiquiri and a Piña Colada, evoking tropical beach vibes with complementary strawberry.
Navy Grog - A classic Tiki cocktail attributed to Don the Beachcomber, featuring a trio of rums, honey syrup, lime and grapefruit juices, and a splash of club soda.
Nuclear Daiquiri - A high-octane spin on the classic Daiquiri created in 2005 by Gregor de Gruyther at LAB bar in London, featuring overproof rum, green Chartreuse, lime.
Painkiller - A tropical tiki classic originating from the Soggy Dollar Bar in the British Virgin Islands in the 1970s. This rich, fruity rum cocktail is a close.
Palmetto - The Palmetto is a classic pre-Prohibition cocktail, a rum-based variation on the Manhattan, featuring aged rum, sweet vermouth, and orange bitters.
Pearl Diver - A classic tiki cocktail created by Don the Beachcomber in the 1930s (or 1950s per some sources), featuring two rums, fresh citrus, and the signature.
Piña Colada - A classic tropical cocktail from Puerto Rico made with rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, famously blended into a frosty, creamy drink.
Planter's Punch - A classic Jamaican-origin rum cocktail dating back to the late 1800s, featuring dark rum, lime juice, sweetener, grenadine for color and flavor, bitters.
Queen's Park Swizzle - A classic rum cocktail originating from the Queen's Park Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the 1920s. It is a refreshing, aromatic swizzled drink.
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club - A Trader Vic original from the 1940s, this is a tiki-influenced riff on the Daiquiri that replaces simple syrup with falernum and orange curaçao for.
Rum Punch - A classic, flexible tropical cocktail using both light and dark rum with fruit juices and grenadine for sweetness and color. It represents one of the.
Rum Runner - The Rum Runner is a classic tropical cocktail invented in the 1970s at the Holiday Isle Tiki Bar in Islamorada, Florida Keys, to use up surplus liqueurs.
Scorpion - A classic tiki cocktail created by Trader Vic in the 1950s, featuring light rum and brandy with fresh citrus juices and orgeat. Tart, fruity, and.
Spicy Mojito - A refreshing twist on the classic Cuban Mojito with the addition of fresh jalapeño slices for a spicy kick, balanced by mint, lime, white rum, and club.
Treacle - The Treacle is a rum Old Fashioned variation created by Dick Bradsell in 1990s London, designed to evoke the rich, molasses-like flavor of British.
Tropical Splash - A refreshing, fruity rum cocktail featuring mango and cranberry juices, offering a sweet-tart tropical flavor profile.
Yellow Bird - A Caribbean rum cocktail with a sunny yellow hue from Galliano, featuring a balance of rum, citrus, and herbal-sweet notes. It is recognized by the.
Zombie - A classic tiki cocktail created in 1934 by Donn Beach at Don the Beachcomber. This potent drink features multiple rums, fruit juices, and spices.
Jungle Bird - A tiki-style cocktail created in the 1970s at the Kuala Lumpur Hilton's Aviary Bar, featuring blackstrap rum, Campari, pineapple juice, lime, and.
Old Cuban - A modern classic created in 2001 by Audrey Saunders, the Old Cuban combines elements of the Mojito (mint, lime, rum) with bitters and a Champagne topper.