# Jamaican rum

Rum made in Jamaica, often prized in cocktails for its characterful fermented-fruit and ester-rich aromas.

Parent category: [Rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/rum.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Types

- [Aged Jamaican rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/aged-jamaican-rum.md): 40% ABV. Jamaican rum matured in oak, retaining the island style's fermented-fruit and ester-rich character beneath rounded spice, fruit, and wood.
- [Overproof Jamaican rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/overproof-jamaican-rum.md): 57% ABV. A high-strength Jamaican rum with concentrated ripe-fruit, spice, and ester-rich funk.

## 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.
- [Brancolada](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brancolada.md): Jeremy Oertel’s frozen colada makes minty Brancamenta a full partner to Jamaican rum, pineapple, orange, and rich coconut.
- [Doctor Funk](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/doctor-funk.md): Ester-rich Jamaican rum, two fresh citrus juices, grenadine, absinthe, and soda make an anise-led sparkling cooler with genuine Samoan ancestry and modern tiki force.
- [Jet Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/jet-pilot.md): Three rums, two citrus juices, cinnamon, falernum, anise, and bitters form a compact Luau-era tropical drink with uncommon power and precision.
- [Lost Lake](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/lost-lake.md): Paul McGee's modern Chicago tropical classic, balancing funky Jamaican rum and passion fruit with a dry, bittersweet seam of Campari and maraschino.
- [Mr. Bali Hai](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mr-bali-hai.md): Dark Jamaican rum, light rum, pineapple, lemon, and dry coffee liqueur create a large tropical drink whose roast and funk are more compelling than simple sweetness.
- [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.
- [Planters Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/planters-punch.md): Jamaican rum balanced simply with lime and sugar cane juice.
- [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.
- [Test Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/test-pilot.md): Donn Beach's compact rum drink layers Jamaican and light rum with lime, falernum, orange, bitters, and a trace of anise.
- [Treacle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/treacle.md): Dark Jamaican rum, bitters, and a small float of clear apple juice produce the deep caramelised-fruit impression that gives this London Old Fashioned its name.
- [Zombie](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/zombie.md): Donn Beach's formidable 1934 rum rhapsody, layered with citrus, cinnamon, spice, anise, and enough overproof depth to justify its legendary two-drink limit.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/jamaican-rum
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/jamaican-rum-b66f3882.webp
- Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex:32019R0787