Mix Lip-Smacking and Refreshing Rum Cocktails Like a Pro. Check out 10 Great Cocktail Recipes with Rum to Impress Everyone with Your Expert Mixology Skills (2020)

• White Rum: is colourless but is as tasty. The crisp taste of this rum makes great cocktails and it tastes great with ice and lime.


• Gold/Dark Rum: comes from charred oak barrels. This is kept in old whiskey barrels which gives it the gold or amber colour. It is great for sipping on the rocks and tastes quite rich.


• Demerera Rum: Most of the rum is made from sugarcane grown in Brazil but the Demerera rum is made from canes grown in Guyana. It is aged and is dark flavoured.


• Spiced Rum: Then comes the spiced rum which is a distilled rum that has been flavoured with spices.


• Rhum Agricole: is made with sugarcane juice only instead of molasses. It can be white, gold, dark, etc. depending on the barrels it was stored in.


• Naval/Overproof Rum: is any rum which has higher alcohol content, around 50% to 60% and above.

• If you are worried about the health of your heart then drinking rum can be beneficial for you. There are several studies done which show that rum is good for your heart. It keeps your heart strong and pumping for a long time. It also decreases cholesterol levels in your body giving you a healthy lifestyle. Drinking rum is also good for your peripheral artery disease prevention and it works as a blood thinner too which prevents blockages in the artery which helps in the prevention of heart attacks.


• Rum has many medicinal properties and when taken in moderation it can relieve stress and stabilise your blood pressure levels. It also gives you an instant energy boost. Rum is also known as a cure for cold. So, drink it up this winter and stay fit.


• Drinking rum is also good for people suffering from muscle pain. It is believed that rum can treat muscle pain completely. The very popular Old Monk increases the bone minerals which leads to relief in muscle and body pain faster.


• If you are suffering from diabetes and want to drink but can't then don't fret, start drinking rum. It is said that a tablespoon of rum each day can lower your blood sugar drastically.


• Guys this is good news for you. Rum has been known to protect against erectile dysfunction. It is observed that drinking rum reduces erectile dysfunction by 25 to 30% but don't overdo it or you'll fall asleep and it would be not good for your sex life at all.

Ingredients:

• 8 fresh mint leaves
• 2 tsp turbinado sugar (raw sugar)
• ½ lime cut into fourths
• 2 ounces dark rum (white rum is traditional, and if you don't like dark rum's spicy flavor, by all means use white)
• Club soda or seltzer water
• Ice

Method:

• Start by putting the mint, sugar and lime in a tall glass and muddle it all together. Don't overdo it or you will end up pulverising the mint.
• Now put in the rum and muddle a lot more to mix it all again.
• Fill the glass with loads of ice and top it with club soda.
• Serve with cocktail straws immediately and watch your friends have a blast with each sip.

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Kirk and Sweeney 12 Year Rum
• ¾ part fresh lime juice
• ½ part maple syrup
• 1 part ginger beer
• 1 dash bitters
• Orange peel (for garnish)

Method:

• Take all the ingredients except ginger beer mentioned above and put them in a shaker.
• Add ice to it and shake it well till it is chilled.
• Now, strain the mix over fresh ice in a double rocks glass.
• Top with ginger beer.
• Garnish it with an orange peel.

Ingredients:

• 500 ml pineapple juice
• 500 ml mango juice
• 250 ml Malibu rum
• 250 ml coconut milk
• Sliced pineapple (to serve)
• Limes on skewers

Method:

• Take all the ingredients and put them in a large jug.
• Mix them well and let it chill in the fridge.
• To serve, take a glass and fill it up with ice.
• Pour the rum on it and garnish it with a pineapple slice and lime skewers.

Ingredients:

• 2 ounce light rum
• 1 ounce fresh lime juice
• ¾ ounce demerara sugar syrup
• Lime twist (for garnish)

Method:

• Put all the ingredients in a shaker.
• Add ice to it.
• Shake it well until its chilled.
• Strain the mix in a chilled coupe and garnish it with a lime twist.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. dark rum
• 3 oz. ginger beer
• ½ oz. lime juice (optional)

Method:

• Take a tall glass and fill it up with ice cubes.
• Pour rum in it.
• Add ginger beer and lime juice to it.
• Stir with a bar spoon and garnish with a lime wedge and you have a Dark n Stormy.

Ingredients:

• 1½ cup ice
• ½ cup diced pineapple, frozen
• 2 ounce pineapple juice
• 2 ounce Coco Lopez coconut cream
• 1½ ounce white rum
• 1 ounce dark rum
• Pineapple slices

Method:

• Take ice, frozen pineapple, pineapple juice, coconut cream and the white and dark rums and put them in a blender.
• Blend it till it gets smooth and frosty.
• Pour the mix in 2 glasses and garnish them with pineapple slices.
• Watch your friends devour it.

Ingredients:

• 1 shot dark rum
• 1 shot fresh lime juice
• 1 shot blueberry allspice liqueur
• ½ shot ginger syrup

Method:

• Take all the ingredients and put them in a shaker.
• Put ice in it.
• Shake it vigorously.
• Pour the mix in pint glass full of ice.
• Garnish it with lime

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce white rum
• 1 ounce coconut rum
• 1 ounce spiced rum
• 1 ounce flavoured rum (such as pineapple or mango), optional
• 2 ounce pineapple juice
• Dash grenadine

Method:

• Take all the ingredients and mix them in a glass full of ice.
• Garnish it with a cherry and a pineapple wedge.
• If you want to make it better use frozen pineapple juice over the ice cubes before you start making it, you can also use frozen pineapple instead of ice for extra flavor.

Ingredients:

• 2 ounce white rum
• 2 ounce dark rum
• 2 ounce passion fruit juice
• 1 ounce orange juice
• ½ ounce grenadine
• ½ ounce simple syrup
• ½ medium lime, juiced
• Slice of orange and maraschino cherry, for garnish

Method:

• Take all the ingredients mentioned above and put them into a shaker.
• Shake it nicely.
• Strain the mix into ice filled hurricane glass.
• Garnish the drink with orange and cherry.

Ingredients:

• 1 oz spiced rum
• 1 oz white rum
• ½ oz Crème de Banana liqueur
• ½ oz blackberry liqueur (or Crème de Cassis)
• 1 oz orange juice
• 1 oz pineapple juice
• ½ oz lime juice
• ½ oz grenadine
• Garnish: maraschino cherries, orange slices, lime slices, pineapple wedges

Method:

• Take all the ingredients and put them in a shaker or a jar.
• Fill it up with ice.
• Shake, shake and shake.
• Strain the drink in a glass full of ice.
• Garnish with any fruit you like and have a great time with it.