10 rum drink recipes that will make you a professional bartender

Your happy hour will be better with these rum drink recipes. This versatile drink can be the basis for tasty combinations with fruits, liqueurs, syrups and aromatic leaves. Best of all, preparation is quick and easy. Choose your favorite version and be sure to try it out:

1. Daiquiri

Ingredients

• 80 ml white rum
• 40 ml lemon juice
• 30 ml sugar syrup
• ice to taste

Preparation mode

1. Put the rum in a cocktail shaker;
2. Add lemon juice and sugar syrup;
3. Insert the ice cubes, close the shaker and shake well;
4. Just pour the liquid into a very cold glass;
5. Serve immediately.

2. Cuba Libre

Ingredients

• ice to taste
• 60 ml Bacardi Silver rum
• Coke
• ¼ of a Tahiti lime

Preparation mode

1. Fill a tall glass with ice and stir to cool the glass;
2. Remove excess liquid before starting to prepare the drink;
3. Add the rum;
4. Add the Coke to the inside wall of the glass carefully to keep the bubbles out;
5. Pass the lemon along the rim of the glass and then squeeze the juice;
6. Stir lightly with a spoon to incorporate the juice;
7. enjoy.

3. Strawberry Mojito

Ingredients

• 5 chopped strawberries
• 5 tablespoons of sugar
• 20 ml of lemon juice
• 3 mint leaves
• 80 ml white rum
• ice to taste
• 100 ml of sparkling water

Preparation mode

1. Place the chopped strawberries in a cocktail shaker;
2. Add the sugar and use a pounder to macerate well;
3. Add the lemon juice, mint leaves and rum;
4. Add a few ice cubes and cover. Shake well;
5. Transfer the mixture to a tall, wide glass;
6. Top up with more ice cubes and sparkling water;
7. Mix lightly with the spoon;
8. Decorate the rim of the glass with a strawberry and enjoy.

4. Cuban Mojito

Ingredients

• 10 mint leaves
• 20 ml of sugar syrup
• 20 ml Tahiti lime juice
• 50 ml of white rum
• crushed ice to taste
• Sparkling water

Preparation mode

1. Pat the mint leaves to release the aromas, then pour into a tall glass.
2. Pour in the sugar syrup, lemon juice and rum. Mix with the spoon;
3. Fill the glass with crushed ice and mix lightly with the spoon;
4. Fill the glass with a little soda water and more crushed ice;
5. Serve immediately.

5. Coconut Mojito

Ingredients

• 10 large mint leaves
• 25 ml plain sugar syrup
• 50 ml of Malibu
• 35 ml white rum
• 15 ml of lemon juice
• ice to taste
• Sparkling water
• 2 slices of lemon
• 10 ml of curacao

Preparation mode

1. Place mint leaves in a large glass. Mash them at the bottom of the glass;
2. Add the sugar syrup, Malibu, white rum and lemon juice. Mix;
3. Insert the ice and mix again;
4. Pour in the sparkling water until almost filling the glass. Stir lightly;
5. Add the lemon slices and place in the bottom of the glass;
6. Finally, add the Curaçao and enjoy.

6. Sweet dream

Ingredients

• ice to taste
• 40 ml of Oro rum
• 30 ml Baileys or liqueur
• 20 ml chocolate cookie syrup
• 1.5 ml of mint

Preparation mode

1. Place the ice in a triangular glass and let it cool;
2. In a cocktail shaker, add the rum, Baileys, syrup, mint and ice. Cover and shake well;
3. Pour the contents of the cocktail shaker into the glass, passing through a sieve so that no more ice falls;
4. Now it’s just a case of tasting.

7. Dark ‘n’ stormy

Ingredients

• ice to taste
• 50 ml of ginger syrup
• 10 ml of lemon juice
• 100 ml Club Soda or sparkling water
• 2 dashes of angostura bitters
• 50 ml of dark rum

Preparation mode

1. Fill a large glass with the ice cubes;
2. Add the ginger syrup and lemon juice;
3. Top up with Club Soda and stir lightly with a ballerina spoon;
4. Add the angostura and dark rum;
5. If desired, decorate with a slice of lemon on the edge of the glass;
6. serve.

8. Pina colada

Ingredients

• 100 grams of very ripe pineapple, chopped
• 60 ml Silver rum
• 30 ml of coconut water
• 40 ml homemade Lopez coconut cream
• crushed ice to taste

Preparation mode

1. In a blender, place the chopped pineapple, rum, coconut water and coconut cream. Blend until smooth;
2. Add crushed ice and beat again until ice cubes break;
3. Transfer to the glass of your choice and, if you wish, decorate with mint leaves and pineapple slice;

9. Blue Hawaiian

Ingredients

• ice to taste
• 60 ml of white rum
• 30 ml of blue curacao
• 30 ml of coconut cream
• 60 ml of pineapple juice

Preparation mode

1. Put ice in the cocktail shaker and in the glass you are going to serve the drink in;
2. In the cocktail shaker, place the rum, curacao, coconut cream and pineapple juice. Cover and shake well;
3. Transfer with a colander to the glass with ice;
4. If desired, garnish with a slice of pineapple, mint leaves and one more strand of blue curacao;
5. Serve with a straw.

10. Frozen banana daiquiri

Ingredients

• 60 ml of white rum
• 30 ml of banana or orange liqueur
• 20 ml of lemon juice
• 1/2 ripe dwarf banana
• 1 full glass of ice

Preparation mode

1. In a blender, place the rum, liqueur, lemon juice and banana. Blend until smooth;
2. Insert the ice and use the “pulse” function of the blender. Beat until the ice breaks, but without letting it dissolve completely;
3. Pour into a glass and enjoy.

With so many cool options, you can vary the preparations and innovate every day. And if you like to venture into the world of drinks, also check out these options for drinks with vodka to impress your guests.