Name: Rum Swizzle
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 20 ml Falernum liqueur; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Brown sugar syrup; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Rum Swizzle
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
²⁄₃ oz	Difford's Falernum liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Demerara/Muscovado/brown sugar syrup (2 sugar to 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.

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.

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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 285 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
21.41% alc./vol. (21.41° proof)
25.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Graeme McPherson

8th November 2024 at 09:59

This is not very far away from a drink called a Freight Train Swizzle which adds a touch of Green Chartreuse and leaves out the lemon juice. Either way you can’t go wrong!

Peter McCarthy

8th August 2024 at 10:26

Bacardi 8 year worked well for this. Prominent rum flavor, but balanced out by the citrus/clove/brown sugar/bitters. Great easy-to-make rum drink.

Matt

26th July 2024 at 01:13

Delicious - rum leads the flavor, and is underscored by the Demerara syrup. Falernum and bitters add depth of flavor, and the lime (softened by the lemon) give a citrus brightness.

Annechien

17th June 2024 at 19:58

Made this with diplomatico reserva exclusiva. Gorgeous! The garnishes really add to the whole experience. The drink is dark and sticky but smells fresh because of the mint/orange.

Jose Cruz

22nd January 2024 at 04:50

Added 45ML pineapple, for a easier sipping drink. Used my 12 YO rum but too much going on for it to shine, next time will use 6 year old :)

Jose Cruz

17th December 2023 at 04:50

Made with El Dorado 12 YO rum, i used turbinado syrup instead of demerara. amazing Drink. Cheers

John Hinojos

16th October 2023 at 01:31

Made this with Mount Gay gold, cut the sugar syrup in half, added a float of 151 Demerara rum. It was wonderful.

David M.

19th September 2023 at 02:14

Pleasant first use of Falernum and swizzling but a little on the mild side. Look forward to a Green Swizzle next time.

Miguel Perales

3rd March 2023 at 23:56

Interesting that I lean away from sweet cocktails, and yet found this one not overly sweet as posted. Next time, I may try the over-proof rum as John suggested.

Vera Lycaon

3rd January 2023 at 12:23

Substituted sugar with an equal amount of (slightly less sweet) cane syrup after reading the reviews here, as well as bumping up the lemon just a notch to match the lime. Wonderfully refreshing; need to see about making more of these during the summer months.