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Light, clean rum, aged briefly and filtered to remove colour. The base of the Mojito and Daiquiri.
In a Mojito, Daiquiri or Cuba Libre.
For readers of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly.
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All the freshness of a Mojito without the rum. Spec: muddle 6–8 mint leaves with 2 tsp sugar and half a lime in wedges; fill with ice; top with 120 ml soda.
Cuba's refreshing highball. Spec: 45 ml white rum, 20 ml fresh lime juice, 6 mint leaves, 2 tsp sugar (or 20 ml syrup), soda to top.
The pure rum sour. Spec: 60 ml white rum, 20 ml lime juice, 15 ml sugar syrup.
Spec: 50 ml rum, 120 ml cola, 10 ml lime juice. More than rum and coke: the lime makes it.
'Old clothes': shredded beef stew.
Rum aged longer in charred barrels, sometimes with caramel added, giving molasses, toffee and spice flavours. Jamaican rum is famous for its funky, fruity 'hogo'.
India is one of the world's largest rum markets. Indian dark rums are sweet, vanilla-led and often aged several years; rum with hot water is a classic hill-station winter drink.
Rum flavoured with spices and usually sweetened.
Made from fresh-pressed sugarcane juice rather than molasses, giving grassy, vegetal flavours. Martinique's rhum agricole has its own AOC.
Brazil's national spirit, distilled from fermented sugarcane juice. Unaged cachaça is grassy; aged versions are rested in native Brazilian woods.
Rum bottled at very high strength, mainly for mixing and tiki drinks. Handle with care.