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Rum Collins

Name: Rum Collins
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters; 60 ml Soda water

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
3/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
2 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Fluet Highball 1910 45cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered lemon slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry (sail).

Method

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with soda.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered lemon slice and cherry (sail).

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Rum Collins contains 223 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
11.25% alc./vol. (22.49° proof)
19 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe featured in the 1932 menu of Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana, Cuba.

RUM COLLINS
The juice of a Lemon
1 Part of Rum.
Seltzer water.
Serve in a 10 ounce glass with cracked ice.
Sloppy Joe's menu, 1932

See the history of the Collins cocktail on our Tom Collins page.

Review

It's more common to find rum mixed with lime juice, but the Rum Collins calls for lemon, and this combines brilliantly with the aged rum in this long refreshing cocktail.

Variations/similar cocktails

In his 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks David A. Embury says, "Originally there were two brothers only in the Collins family - Tom and John. During recent years, however, numerous cousins have appeared on the scene - Pedro, Pierre, Sandy, Mike, Jack, the Colonel and several others whose first names have not yet been officially recorded in the baptismal registry."
Captain Collins - with Canadian whisky
Colonel Collins - with bourbon whiskey
Dutch Collins or Genever Collins (aka Phil Collins) - with genever/jenever/Hollands
Jack Collins - with calvados
Jock Collins or Sandy Collins - with Scotch whisky
Joe Collins or Vodka Collins - with vodka
John Collins - with London dry gin
Jose Collins or Pepito Collins - with tequila
Mike Collins or Ronan Collins - with Irish whiskey
Pedro Collins - with light white rum
Pierre Collins - with cognac/brandy
Pisco Collins - with pisco
Rum Collins - with aged rum
Tom Collins - with old tom gin
Whiskey Collins - with bourbon/rye whiskey

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Comments & Discussion

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John Hinojos Premium Member 1y

Loving rum always looking for a nice cocktail that is not too sweet. This is excellent. Use Myers's Single Barrel aged Jamaican rum. This was unreal. Need to use a rum with hearty flavour.

Graeme McPherson 1y

Diffords comes to my rescue again when looking for a way to make use of my half bottle of rum and some lemons that needed juicing. And wow this is much better than I expected. Connoisseurs should look away as I used a spiced rum and I will gladly die on the hill that states this drink is a banger. As per that great Aussie movie, The Castle, this one is going straight to the pool room!