10 best cocktails with rum for a comfortable home gatherings and noisy parties

Sweet pina colada, Admiral grog, classic mojitos and other drinks under a very different mood.

1. Pina colada

The taste of the national drink of Puerto Rico if you can hardly forget.

Ingredients

• 1½ cups of ice;
• ½ cup frozen pineapple, diced;
• 60 ml of pineapple juice;
• 60 ml coconut cream;
• 45 ml white rum;
• 30 ml dark rum;
• slices of pineapple.

preparation

Blender, combine all ingredients until smooth. Pour two glasses and garnish kind Hurricane pineapple slices.

By the way, can be fed directly into the drink pineapplePreviously cut out therefrom pulp.

2. Daiquiri

Sour aperitif with Cuba.

Ingredients

• 60 ml white rum;
• 30 ml lime juice;
• 15 ml of sugar syrup;
• ice.

preparation

Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Shake to cool and pour into cocktail glasses, drain through a sieve or strainer. Glasses need to be pre-cooled.

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3. Mai tai

Recipe popular cocktail from Jamie Oliver.

Ingredients

• ice cubes;
• 60 ml white rum;
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• 40 ml dark rum;
• 20 ml Cointreau;
• 10 ml lime juice;
• 60 ml of pineapple juice;
• 60 ml orange juice;
• 4-5 drops of grenadine syrup.

preparation

Put the ice - it should be a lot - in a shaker and add the remaining ingredients. Shake for 20 seconds. Content should be well cool.

Serve the cocktail is recommended in short glasses. Fill them in two ways:

1. Pour the contents into a glass with ice, which is in a shaker.
2. Fill the container with ice and new with a sieve or strainer, strain the liquid to the old ice left in the shaker.

The drink can be decorated with a sprig of mint and a slice of lime.

4. Mojito

There are so many varieties of this refreshing cocktail. Let us consider the classic: with mint, lime juice, soda and sugar.

Ingredients

• 6 leaves fresh mint;
• 30 ml of sugar syrup;
• 30 ml of fresh lime juice;
• 60 ml white rum;
• ice;
• 60 ml of soda.

preparation

Place the mint in a shaker and shake gently. Add sugar syrup, lime juice, rum and ice. Shake well and pour into a tall glass - highball. Pour him a soda and garnish with a sprig of mint.

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5. Cuba Libre

This Cuban drink - one of the most popular cocktails in the world.

Ingredients

• fresh lime juice ¹/₂;
• ice cubes;
• 60 ml white rum;
• 120 ml Coca-Cola.

preparation

Add the lime juice in a glass of Collins or highball. It is better to choose the first: it is narrower and higher, so soda will fizzle out slowly.

To get a more intense citrus flavor, toss a slice of lime in the glass, shake it and clean the lime - you take a little taste of the peel. Put ice cubes, pour the rum and Coke. Mix well.

6. Hot buttered rum and milk

This cocktail will warm even in the chilly evening.

Ingredients

• ½ tablespoon softened butter;
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar;
• ½ tablespoon caster sugar;
• 1 cup hot milk;
• 45 ml dark rum;
• a pinch of cinnamon;
• a pinch of nutmeg.

preparation

Connect spoon in a cup butter, sugar and powdered sugar. Add hot milk, rum and spices, mix well.

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7. Knickerbocker

Classic cocktail is originally from New York, 1800. Thanks to the rich taste raspberry you do not even notice that the drink has alcohol.

Ingredients

• ice;
• 45 ml of gold rum;
• 15 ml of raspberry syrup;
• 1 teaspoon orange liqueur;
• 15 ml of lime or lemon juice.

preparation

Put ice in a shaker, add the remaining ingredients and shake well. Through a sieve or strainer strain cocktail in a low glass old fashioned filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a slice of lime or lemon and seasonal berries.

8. Hurricane

Strong New Orleans cocktail - a true legend. Try to cook it yourself, it's not too difficult.

Ingredients

• 60 ml white rum;
• 60 ml dark rum;
• 30 ml lime juice;
• 30 ml orange juice;
• 60 ml of passion fruit juice;
• 15 ml of sugar syrup;
• 15 ml grenadine syrup;
• ice.

preparation

Mix all ingredients in a shaker, add ice. Shake well. Strain through a sieve or a strainer in Hurricane glass, filled with new ice.

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9. Zombie

The most difficult and, perhaps, drunk a cocktail on the list. For those who are not afraid of difficulties and the state zombie.

Ingredients

Syrup Don's Mix:

• 3 cinnamon sticks;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 1 cup of water;
• freshly squeezed grapefruit juice.

Cocktail:

• 45 ml Hawaiian rum;
• 45 ml of the Puerto Rican rum;
• 30 ml sverhkrepkogo Roma;
• ⅛ teaspoon anise liqueur;
• 15 ml syrup falernum;
• 15 ml Don's Mix syrup;
• 1 teaspoon grenadine syrup;
• 4-5 drops of Angostura;
• 180 g of crushed ice;
• a sprig of mint for decoration.

preparation

Let's start with Don's Mix syrup. Break cinnamon sticks by placing them in a small pan or saucepan, add sugar and water and bring to boil. Sugar should dissolve completely. Hold at heat for about two minutes and remove. Let cool about a couple of hours. The resulting sugar syrup can be stored in the refrigerator for a month, so that at the next party you will not have to bother, and wait until it cools down.

To get Don's Mix, connect one part syrup with two parts grapefruit juice.

Now zaymomsya cocktail. Place all ingredients except ice in a blender and whip at high speed of not more than 5 seconds.

Pour into a glass and add ice. Use tall and narrow glass type of zombies (it is higher and narrower than Collins). Garnish with a sprig of mint.

10. Grog

You remember that it was the favorite drink of pirates?

Ingredients

• 60 ml dark rum;
• 15 ml lime juice;
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar;
• 120 ml of boiling water or hot black tea.
• cloves and cardamom - on request;
• orange slice;
• cinnamon stick.

preparation

Mix in a cup rum, lime juice, sugar and boiling water or tea. For a taste, you can add cloves and cardamom. Garnish with cinnamon stick and a slice of orange.

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