When it comes to summer cocktails, rum is king. It is the champ. It is the best friend that tropical fruit and crushed ice ever had. White rum, dark rum, rhum agricole—they all make for delicious, warm weather sippers and refreshing frozen libations. Here, our favorite summer drinks to make with rum.
You might be more familiar with the resort-y Mai Tai that shows up at many Hawaiian beach bars, but this is the original version, made with both dark Jamaican rum and rhum agricole. It’s one of the OG tiki cocktails, probably brought into the world by the very first tiki bartender, Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt, aka Donn the Beachcomber.
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If you’ve never swizzled, you have to try. There’s a whole genre of drinks mixed with a swizzle stick, but if you want that beachy vacation vibe that we all crave during the summer months, you need this cocktail made with rum and falernum.
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The Blue Hawaii is a showy drink to be sure. It fell out of favor for several decades as people decided blue curaçao was not something they wanted in their cocktails, but it’s back. The era of neon drinks has returned thanks to some bold bartenders who are giving new life to cocktails like the Blue Hawaii and the Midori Sour.
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The national drink of Puerto Rico is a little heavier than a lot of summer cocktails thanks to the addition of we-aren’t-going-to-look-at-the-nutrition-label Coco Lopez (cream of coconut). But no summer would be complete without at least one Piña Colada, and an obligatory playing of Rupert Holmes.
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