Rum Swizzle

Difford's Guide
Discerning Drinkers (125 ratings)

Serve in a

Collins glass
Ingredients:
2 fl oz Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
2/3 fl oz Difford's Falernum liqueur
1/2 fl oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz Demerara/Muscovado/brown sugar syrup (2 sugar:1 water)
1 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
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Garnish:

Mint sprig & orange slice

How to make:

POUR ingredients into chilled glass and two-thirds fill with crushed ice. SWIZZLE with a swizzle stick (or churn with a barspoon). Add more crushed ice to fill and SWIZZLE some more. Serve with straws.

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Review:

Dark rich sugar, equally dark and richly flavoured rum, sweetened and spiced with the clove and cinnamon flavours of falernum and freshened with citrus juice. All served long with crushed ice.

Variant:

Green Swizzle

History:

This drink emerged in the early 1800s in Guyana when British ex-pats mixed this drink on the terrace of the Georgetown Club.

Nutrition:

One serving of Rum Swizzle contains 286 calories.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.8 standard drinks
  • 21.41% alc./vol. (42.82° proof)
  • 25.2 grams of pure alcohol
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New Year's Day

If Auld Lang Syne left your throat dry? And dancing left your feet sore? And drinking left your head fuzzy? Then resist the temptation to curl up in bed

Hot Toddy Day image

Hot Toddy Day

In the days before ice was easily available - and in most parts of the world, you needed to be pretty much royalty to own an ice house and keep it stocked

The day Prohibition started image

The day Prohibition started

One minute after midnight on this day in 1920, the Volstead Act became law and Prohibition descended on the United States, making it illegal to possess,

Beer Can Appreciation Day image

Beer Can Appreciation Day

Here at Difford's Guide we're huge fans of beer cans – indeed we prefer cans to bottles. So we're happy to support this marketing gimmick of a day from

Burns Night image

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The evening of January 25th is when Scots everywhere hold Burns Suppers in honour of the birth of Scotland's favourite poet and son, Robert Burns. Born

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