10 Best Rum Cocktails for Summer Time

Summer's just around the corner! Rum adds to the perfect taste palette for summer cocktails. Whether its a Mojito or a cooler, you just cant go wrong with Rum. As spring transitions to a hot summer, rum takes its shine in the seasonal cocktail lineup, up there with tequila. Below are 10 Rum Cocktails you just cant go wrong with!

Top 10 Drink Recipes


Dark and Stormy Recipe

1. Dark and Stormy

Ingredients
2 oz - Gosling's® Black Seal rum
8 oz - ginger beer
Directions
Pour rum over ice, add ginger ale, and stir.

NOTE: You can substitute any dark or spiced rum.
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Hot Buttered Rum Recipe

2. Hot Buttered Rum

Ingredients
1 oz - light rum
1 tsp - sugar
1/2 tsp - butter
4 - cloves
Directions
Add the sugar, butter and cloves to a coffee mug. Pour the rum, and stir well. Fill with boiling water. Stir again, and serve.
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Mai Tai Recipe

3. Mai Tai

Ingredients
1 oz - light rum
1/2 oz - creme de almond
1/2 oz - triple sec
- sweet and sour mix
- pineapple juice
1/2 oz - Myer's® dark rum
Directions
Pour light rum, creme de almond and triple sec, in order, into a collins glass. Almost fill with equal parts of sweet and sour mix and pineapple juice. Add dark rum, a large straw, and serve unstirred.
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Mojito Recipe

4. Mojito

Ingredients
1.25 oz - Captain Morgan® Original spiced rum
12 - mint
1 tbsp - sugar
0.5 oz - lime juice
2 oz - soda
Directions
Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add crushed ice, Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum, sugar, and lime juice, and muddle. Add soda water and garnish with mint leaves.
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Painkiller Recipe

5. Painkiller

Ingredients
2 oz - Pusser's® dark rum
1 oz - cream of coconut
4 oz - pineapple juice
1 oz - orange juice
Directions
Shake or stir ingredients, and pour over ice in a tall glass. Sprinkle nutmeg on top, and serve,
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Pina Colada Recipe

6. Pina Colada

Ingredients
3 oz - light rum
3 tbsp - coconut cream
3 tbsp crushed - pineapples
Directions
Put all ingredients into an electric blender with 2 cups of crushed ice. Blend at a high speed for a short length of time. Strain into a collins glass and serve with a straw.
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Rum Runner Recipe

7. Rum Runner

Ingredients
0.75 oz - Captain Morgan® Original spiced rum
0.25 oz - blackberry liqueur
0.25 oz - creme de bananes
2 oz - orange juice
8 oz crushed - ice
Directions
Add Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum, blackberry liqueur, crème de banana liqueur, orange juice, grenadine, and crushed ice in a blender. Blend until slushy and pour into glass.
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Strawberry Daiquiri Recipe

8. Strawberry Daiquiri

Ingredients
1/2 oz - strawberry schnapps
1 oz - light rum
1 oz - lime juice
1 tsp - powdered sugar
1 oz - strawberries
Directions
Add ingredients with a bit of ice in a blender. Blend and then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish w/ strawberry.
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Zombie Recipe

9. Zombie

Ingredients
1/2 oz - Bacardi® 151 rum
1 oz - pineapple juice
1 oz - orange juice
1/2 oz - apricot brandy
1 tsp - sugar
2 oz - light rum
1 oz - dark rum
1 oz - lime juice
Directions
Blend all ingredients with ice except Bacardi 151 proof rum. Pour into a collins glass. Float Bacardi 151 proof rum on top. Garnish with a fruit slice, sprig of mint and a cherry.
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Hurricane Recipe

10. Hurricane

Ingredients
1 oz - vodka
1/4 oz - grenadine syrup
1 oz - gin
1 oz - light rum
1/2 oz - Bacardi® 151 rum
1 oz - amaretto almond liqueur
1 oz - triple sec
- grapefruit juice
- pineapple juice
Directions
Pour all but the juices, in order listed, into a hurricane glass three-quarters filled with ice. Fill with equal parts of grapefruit and pineapple juice, and serve.
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