Rum Cocktail Recipes for National Rum Day

National Rum Day is August 16, so it's the perfect time to add some refreshing rum cocktails to your menus.

According to Statista, out-of-home revenue (i.e., revenue generated in restaurants and bars) amounts to $5.3bn in 2024, so there is money to be made on rum cocktails. We've rounded up rum recipes for tried-and-true favorites as well as some unique twists.

 

Coconut Chartreuse Daiquiri

Ingredients:

Honey and shredded coconut for preparing the glass (optional)

1.5 oz Koloa Coconut Rum

0.75 oz fresh-squeezed lime juice

0.5 oz Green Chartreuse

0.25 oz simple syrup

Directions:

1. Brush a coupe or martini glass with honey and then roll it in shredded coconut (optional). 
2. In a cocktail shaker, combine the rum, lime juice, Green Chartreuse, and simple syrup. 
3. Shake well with ice, then strain into the prepared glass.

 

 

Banana Rum Cake Martini

Ingredients

Cartel Daiquiri

2 oz Coconut Cartel Blanco Rum

1 oz Fresh lime juice

.5 oz Agave syrup

Lime wedge/wheel

Directions:

1. Shake with ice and strain into a chilled coupe. 
2. Garnish with a lime wedge or wheel. 

 

Two Licks

Ingredients:

2.0 oz Crossfire Hurricane Rum

Garnish: 2x Black Cherries on a Cocktail Pick

Directions: 

1. Pour 2 oz Crossfire Hurricane Rum into an ice-filled old-fashioned glass. 
2. Garnish with two black cherries on a cocktail pick.

 

Curtain Call

Ingredients:

1 oz Denizen Vatted Dark Rum

.5 oz Lemonhart 151

.5 oz Mr Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur

.5 oz Amaro Averna

.75 oz Pineapple Juice

.75 oz Orange Juice

.75 oz Coco Lopez

Garnish: Mint / Orange Slice / Grated Coffee Bean

Directions:

1. Whip Shake all ingredients. Strain into a tulip glass filled with pebble ice.
2. Garnish with mint, orange slice, and grated coffee bean.

 

Easy Spiced Mai Tai

Ingredients:

2 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum

1 part lime juice

¾ part orgeat

½ part dry curacao

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients into a tin with a small scoop of crushed ice. 
2. Whip shake and dump into glass. 
3. Top with crushed ice. 
4. Garnish with an orange wheel.

 

Tropical Rum Punch

Ingredients:

1  1/2 oz Plantation 3 Star White Rum

1/2 oz Pineapple juice

1/2  oz Chinola Passionfruit Liqueur

1/2 oz Fresh squeezed lemon juice

1/4 oz Herradura Agave Nectar

1 Lemon wheel

3 Pineapple leaves

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients to tin with ice
2. Shake vigorously
3. Strain over fresh ice in Rocks Glass
4. Garnish - 1 lemon wheel and 3 pineapple leaves skewered on a bamboo pick. Make sure the pineapple leaves are fanned out and sticking out of the drink for presentation.

 

Origami Sky

Ingredients:

1 oz Planteray White 

1 oz Planteray Original Dark 

.75 oz Yuzu Juice 

.75 oz Light Amber Honey Syrup

Directions:

1. Add 25% of the weight of honey to get as close as to a 50 Brix Syrup.
2. Add all ingredients to a shaker tin, shake, double strain into a coupe glass.
3. Garnish with a thin lemon wheel that has channel peeled stripes.

 

Caiman Daiquiri

Ingredients:

2 oz. Clairin Communal
1⁄4 oz. Suze Gentian
3⁄4 oz. Shiso Syrup
3⁄4 oz. Fresh Lemon

 

Cruisin' the Castro

Ingredients: 
1 oz. The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley Mango 
1 oz. The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley Prickly Pear 
1.5 oz. Lewis & Clark White Rum
1 oz. lemon juice 
½ oz. Blue Curacao

Directions:

1. Pour one ounce of Mango Purée in the bottom of a Collins glass.
2. Fill the glass with ice. 
3. Pour one ounce of Prickly Pear Purée over the ice.
4. Fill a shaker with the remaining ingredients.
5. Shake and pour into the glass.
6. Garnish with rainbow gummy bears on a pick.
   
    

Kraken Creamsicle

Ingredients

1.5 oz Kraken Gold Spiced Rum

.75 Heavy Whipping Cream

.25 oz Orange Liqueur 1 oz Egg White

Splash of orange soda

Directions: 

1. Add all ingredients to a mixing tin and shake viciously with ice. 
2. Fine-strain into a chilled cocktail glass.  
3. Garnish with a dehydrated orange wheel.

 

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