Best Recipes to Celebrate National Rum Day

As summer is winding down, you deserve a break that will not only quench your thirst, but also add to your bartending repertoire.

Here are two rum-focused recipes that will make you the hit of National Rum Day with your friends.

Remember, a party is best remembered by a circle of friends and a bottle of rum.

Sweet Liberty’s Passionista

• 1 oz. Appleton Signature
• .5 oz. Santa Teresa 1796
• .5 oz. Tempus Fugit dark crème de cacao
• .25 oz. Simple syrup
• .5 oz. Passionfruit puree
• .25 oz. Lime juice
• 3 Dashes saline solution

Directions: Add all ingredients to tin. Shake and fine strain into a nick & nora glass. Garnish with an edible flower

 Byblos Miami’s Old Cuban

• 1.5 oz. Ron Zacapa
• 3 oz. Chandon Brut
• .25 oz. lime juice
• 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
• Lemon wheel (for garnish)
• Mint spring (for garnish)

Directions: Combine all ingredients then shake and strain into a coupe glass, garnish with a lemon wheel and mint sprig.