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Classic Rum Cocktails

Of all the liquors, rum is arguably the most cocktail-friendly.

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Rum Cocktail Recipes

Call It by Color

There are light rums and dark rums, spiced rums and high-quality sipping rums. Find drink recipes for each type of rum.

The Styles of Rum

Don't Forget the Ice!

It's usually overlooked. But the best tasting cocktails use fresh ice made from pure, filtered water. "Fresh" means the cubes haven't been sitting around for weeks in the freezer soaking up the stale, flavor essences of long-lingering foods. Bring the water to a quick boil for best results. Make it the morning of the day you plan to mix your cocktails, and you’ll enjoy the freshest, most delicious cocktails.

Ice for Cocktails

Our Top 5 Jimmy Buffet Rum-Drinkin' Songs

"Ho-ho-ho and a Bottle of Rum"
"Son of a Son of a Sailor"
"Changes in Latitudes"
"Banana Republics"
"Volcano"

Appetizer Party Menu

Stuffed mushrooms, champagne cocktails, and so much more! This menu is a party waiting to happen.

Menu: Anytime Appetizers and Drinks

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All About Cocktails

If gin is the serious booze of serious people drinking serious cocktails like martinis, then rum is its unpretentious, laid-back kid brother, just out for a really good time. Life's a beach! So stick an umbrella in it, and let's have some fun!

Five Favorites

Pour yourself one of these rum-based cocktails and put yourself on island time.

Impossibly Fun, High-Octane Rum Drinks

These are the required cocktails of Polynesian, tiki, or island parties. But watch out! They're so easy to drink, they can sneak up on you in a hurry and pummel you with the force of 10,000 teeny-tiny umbrellas.