# Demerara rum

A rich Guyanese rum traditionally distilled in Demerara, with deep brown-sugar, dried-fruit, spice, and smoky notes.

Parent category: [Aged rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/aged-rum.md)

Alcohol: 43% ABV

## Types

- [Overproof Demerara rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/overproof-demerara-rum.md): 75.5% ABV. A high-strength Demerara rum whose concentrated molasses, spice, smoke, and dried-fruit character gives classic tiki drinks their formidable backbone.

## Cocktails

- [Ancient Mariner](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ancient-mariner.md): Beachbum Berry's dark, dry reply to Navy Grog sets Jamaican and Demerara rums against grapefruit, lime, allspice, and restrained sugar.
- [Navy Grog](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/navy-grog.md): A bracing Don the Beachcomber punch in which three distinct rums meet grapefruit, lime, honey, and a small sparkling lift.
- [Nui Nui](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/nui-nui.md): Aged rum, orange, and lime carry cinnamon, vanilla, allspice, and bitters in one of Donn Beach's most aromatic and spice-led tropical drinks.
- [Pearl Diver](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pearl-diver.md): Donn Beach’s chilled honey-butter emulsion gives light and Demerara rums an almost weightless silkiness beneath orange, lime, spice, and crushed ice.
- [Q.B. Cooler](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/qb-cooler.md): Three regional rum styles move through orange, lime, honey, ginger, falernum, bitters, and soda in Donn Beach’s complex 1937 cooler.
- [Queen’s Park Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-swizzle.md): A high-octane Trinidadian swizzle that drives dark Demerara rum through fragrant mint, lime, sugar, and aromatic bitters.
- [Sidewinder’s Fang](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sidewinders-fang.md): Jamaican and Demerara rums sit beneath equal lime, orange, and passion fruit in the Lanai’s long, carbonated cooler, crowned by a snake-like citrus spiral.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/demerara-rum
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/demerara-rum-317a7e4b.webp
- Source: https://www.demeraradistillers.com/our-brands/domestic-spirits-wines