Rum Swizzle Cocktail

This rum swizzle cocktail recipe is so fun and delicious that you’re going to feel like you are a pirate drinking it.  Aargh!  All the ingredients together makes for a tropical, refreshing drink! This cocktail is so yummy and super pretty!

If you’ve never tasted the rum swizzle before, you are in for a treat.  If I were to describe what it tastes like, I would say it has the flavor of a Mai Tai.

It’s fruity, rummy and oh so yummy.

🙂

During my research, I found out the rum swizzle is the unofficial cocktail of Bermuda.

The swizzle sticks origin

Did you know that the swizzle stick originally made its appearance in the Caribbean? People used to break off little branches from the Quararibea turbinate tree.  Then they would take these small branches, which have many little fingers of wood sticking out of them and stir their drinks with them.  Those branches became known as swizzle sticks and the tree became known as the swizzle tree.

People used to place the wood between their palms and briskly rub, causing the stick to rotate in the drink.  All those little fingers used to swirl around and do a great job mixing the cocktail.  They called it swizzling.

It’s a fun word, isn’t it?

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Helpful tips

• Use a dark and light rum for best results.  The dark rum gives you the nice color and the white rum evens out the heaviness of the dark rum
• For best results, use orange juice without pulp
• If you make one rum swizzle cocktail, you can make it in a cocktail shaker instead of the big receptacle, but just know, that everyone would love one, so make more than one
• Use a few different shaped glasses as it shows the cocktail off in fun ways

How to make a rum swizzle

Pre-step

Fill a glass mixing bowl with 2 cups of ice.  After measuring out the ingredients, add them to the mixing bowl.

Step one

Gather the ingredients – dark rum, light rum, orange juice, pineapple juice, grenadine and bitters.

Step two

Measure 3 ounces of Goslings dark rum. (1)

Step three

Measure 3 ounces white rum. (2)

Step four

Measure 6 ounces of orange juice. (3)

Step five

Measure 6 ounces of pineapple juice. (4)

Step six

Measure 1/2 ounce of grenadine. (5)

Step seven

Stir the mixture with a cocktail spoon.

Step eight

Pour the rum swizzle between 3 glasses.

Step nine

Shake 4 drops of Angostura Bitters in each cocktail.

Step ten

Cut two thin orange wheels and cut them both in quarters and cut the rind off of one of them, (that’s the piece that will go in the drink.)  Garnish the rum swizzles.

Let’s look at the vertical view.

And the aerial view.

I hope you enjoyed this rum swizzle cocktail recipe.

Are there any rum drinks you’d love for me to make? Let me know by leaving me a comment.

Other rum cocktails

• Mai tai
• Daiquri
• Mojito

And as always, may all your dishes/drinks be delish!

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Rum Swizzle Cocktail

This fruity rum drink is so delicious! It reminds me of Summer but you can drink it year round!

5 from 7 votes

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Course: Cocktails

Cuisine: Cocktails

Keyword: rum swizzle, rum swizzle cocktail

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Servings: 3 Cocktails

Calories: 206kcal

Author: Elaine Benoit

Ingredients

• 3 ounces dark rum I used Goslings
• 3 ounces white rum
• 6 ounces orange juice
• 6 ounces pineapple juice
• 1/2 ounce Grenadine
• 4 drops angostura bitters

Garnish

• 2 thin orange wheels cut in quarters and one with the rind taken off

Instructions

• Fill a large measuring cup with 2 cups of ice
• Add dark rum, white rum, orange juice, pineapple juice and grenadine and stir until combined 
• Place some ice into glasses and pour rum swizzle into the glasses
• Shake in 4 drops of bitters into each glass, also place orange slices on the rims and stick a swizzle stick in as well
• Sip
• Smile
• Enjoy

Equipment

cocktail shaker

measuring glass

tulip glass

double old fashioned glass

martini glass

swizzle stick

Notes

Helpful tips

• Use a dark and light rum for best results.  The dark rum gives you the nice color and the white rum evens out the heaviness of the dark rum
• For best results, use orange juice without pulp
• If you make one rum swizzle cocktail, you can make it in a cocktail shaker instead of the big receptacle, but just know, that everyone would love one, so make more than one
• Use a few different shaped glasses as it shows the cocktail off in fun ways

Nutrition

Serving: 1cocktail | Calories: 206kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 187mg | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 115IU | Vitamin C: 34.6mg | Calcium: 14mg | Iron: 0.3mg

Originally published in November of 2016.