Rum is a great base for potent cocktails like tropical mojitos, ginger spiked stormies and many more. Just like most liquors, different brands have different tastes. Here we have gathered various brands and flavours of rum that you can get for either smooth sipping, or just to mix it with your favourite cocktails.
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Overview
With a sweet fruity flavour, Malibu Original Rum is sweet and vicious on your palate. The taste is almost syrupy, tinged with vanilla and rock candy with a slight tangy note, and finishing again with sweet pineapple and banana. Overall, it’s a sweet rum that can be mixed with most summertime cocktails.
Details:
- Terrific mixer that fits most summertime cocktails
- Sweet and smooth finish
- Fruity, tangy flavour
Who is this for?
If you’re just a beginner that is newly introduced to rum, this rum by Malibu would be your perfect introductory rum. It’s a sweet and low-proof entry point for beginner drinkers who don’t yet have much experience with full-proof liquor drinks. Or if you’re just looking for a rum that goes well when mixed with other cocktails, this would be your best choice as well.
Overview
With a clear, polished and shimmering bright colour, this white rum from Bacardi Carta Blanca comes with a light vanilla impression that helps amplify other fruit flavours. It also comes with a fresh apricot, crisp woody her, flowery, fresh fruits and soft nuts aroma.
With a mild, soft and delicate taste on your palate, prepare to be greeted with candied fruit, crystallised fruit, apricot, creamy almond and sweet fruity overtones and flavour that are smooth and light. The rum ends with a dry and crispy clean finish that is slightly sweet in taste.
Details:
- Mild, soft and delicate on the palate
- Light banana, nutty and fruity aroma
- Crisp clean finish
Who is this for?
If you’re a white rum enthusiast or would just like to try white rum for the very first time, this white rum from Bacardi Carta Blanca would be your best choice because of its light yet flavourful taste and aroma.
Overview
Myers Rum is made with 100% Jamaican Rum. The rum comes in a very rich, dark brown colour, with a rich, caramel and burnt coffee-toned aroma mixed with vanilla. On the palate, it offers you a rather sweet, roasty and rich flavour along with earthy tones and a hint of spiciness. The finish, however, is a tad hot, so it’s best suited to be mixed with other cocktails.
Details:
- Earth, sweet peppery spices flavour
- Smoky aroma
- Best suited for cocktail mixing
Who is this for?
If you’re looking for a rum to mix in cocktails, this original dark rum by Myers would be your best choice! Though it can be too hot and rough for pure sipping on its own, it’s perfect for cocktail mixing as it provides more flavour contrasts.
Overview
The Malibu Coconut Rum is the world’s bestselling Caribbean rum that comes with natural coconut flavour - sweet with a fresh finish. The toasty aroma is complemented by a full coconut taste with light vanilla custard notes. The rum body is full and creamy along with a soft, warm rum taste with a silky-smooth finish. This coconut rum is also great for mixing with other drinks, ranging from juices to carbonated beverages.
Details:
- Creamy coconut flavour
- Silky smooth finish
- Perfect for mixing drinks
Who is this for?
If you’re looking for a tasty rum to mix with your fruity or carbonated beverage, this coconut rum would be your best choice, as its flavourful taste goes well with almost any drink.
Overview
This Limon Citrus flavoured rum by Bacardi is made from all natural flavours of crisp citrus that are infused into the rum during production along with hints of vanilla. The result of this infusion between citrus and vanilla is a sweet, sharp and crisp taste. Many recommended that the best way to drink this is by mixing it with lemonade or soda.
Details:
- Combines natural flavour of lime, grapefruit, lemon
- Pleasant, long finish
- Great with lemonade, soda
Who is this for?
This rum is for people who enjoy a fresher, more natural flavoured rum that goes well with either mixed drinks or straight sipping.
Overview
This spiced, strong rum by Captain Morgan provides you with rich notes of vanilla that is creamy and velvety, combining brown sugar and warming spices with a hint of oak and dried fruits. This combination provides you with a smooth finish.
Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum can be mixed into cocktails such as Cuba Libre, Scorpion, Dark and Stormy, Basito, Pina Colada, Don Rodrigo, Planter’s Punch and Barracuda.
Details:
- Strong taste
- Best for cocktail mixing
- Notes of rich vanilla, brown sugar and dried fruit
Who is this for?
If you’re looking for a strong spiced rum that you can use to mix with your cocktails, consider getting this spiced rum from Captain Morgan, as the ingredients create a perfectly balanced spirit with a smooth, long finish.
Overview
Bacardi Anejo Cuatro Rum is produced using column still distillation method and through oak barrel ageing. The final finish of this rum is a secret blend of charcoal, which is achieved by letting the rum go through a charcoal filtration process. This helps blunt the harsh flavour of a young rum and gives it a smooth taste profile. It delivers a mild note of vanilla, toasted oak, honey, and cloves, ending with a long and smooth finish.
Details:
- Secret blend of charcoal
- Aged for 4 years
- Best mixed with chilled coke
Who is this for?
This gold rum makes a surprisingly great mix with carbonated drinks such as chilled coke! If you’re just looking to spice up your carbonated drink, consider getting this charcoal infused rum.
FAQ
- What is rum made from?
Rum is a type of distilled liquor that is made from sugarcane and its by-products. First made in the tropical Caribbean islands, it’s made with 100% cane products that include raw cane juice, white or brown sugar cane, cane syrup, evaporated cane sugar and cane molasses.
- How is rum made?
After harvesting the sugarcane (typically by hand using a machete) and extracting its juices, there are three ways to make rum.
- The sugar cane juice is fermented and distilled. This is the most direct approach to making natural rum.
- The juice is cooked and concentrated into syrup, and then fermented and distilled. This method is favoured by some distilleries as it allows them to distil all year round without the limitations of harvest season.
- The final and most common way is making rum from fermented molasses. The sugarcane juice is first processed into sugar, with molasses as a by-product, which is then fermented to make rum.
- What mixes good with rum?
Some liquids that are perfect to be mixed with rum are tonic water, lime, lemon, ginger ale, orange juice, coconut water, cranberry juice, grapefruit juice or any juice in general. The key is to mix it with something either sour or sweet in flavour to offset the tangy and sometimes spicy tones of the rum.