# White rum

A clear or nearly clear rum, usually light in body and commonly used where a clean cane-spirit character is wanted.

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

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Types

- [Blanc rhum agricole](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/blanc-rhum-agricole.md): 50% ABV. An unaged French Caribbean rum distilled from fresh sugarcane juice, with clear fruit, floral, vegetal, and peppery aromas.
- [Clairin Vaval](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/clairin-vaval.md): 49.3% ABV. Fritz Vaval’s single-estate Haitian clairin, pot-distilled in Cavaillon from wild-fermented sugarcane juice, with a saline, botanical coastal character.
- [Cuban white rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cuban-white-rum.md): 40% ABV. A light Cuban-style white rum with a clean profile shaped by column distillation, filtration, and restrained ageing.
- [Light Puerto Rican-style rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/light-puerto-rican-rum.md): 40% ABV. A clean, light-bodied Spanish-style rum shaped by column distillation, restrained ageing, and filtration, with delicate cane, fruit, and vanilla.

## Cocktails

- [Art of Choke](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/art-of-choke.md): Cynar and rum absorb lime, rich demerara, bitters, and muddled mint in a stirred drink whose fresh ingredients behave nothing like a conventional sour.
- [Beachcomber](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/beachcomber.md): A compact white-rum sour where lime and dry orange liqueur meet enough maraschino to turn a Daiquiri outline floral, nutty, and faintly bitter.
- [Between the Sheets](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/between-the-sheets.md): A bright, spirit-forward sour joining rum and Cognac with orange liqueur and lemon.
- [Mary Pickford](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mary-pickford.md): A tropical rum cocktail balancing sweet pineapple with dry maraschino and a touch of grenadine.
- [Missionary’s Downfall](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/missionarys-downfall.md): Donn Beach's pale-green frozen classic, fragrant with fresh pineapple, mint, peach, honey, and lime over a light rum base.
- [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.
- [Piña Colada](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pina-colada.md): Puerto Rico's enduring frozen classic, with white rum held in a lush but clean balance of fresh pineapple and cream of coconut.
- [Samoan Fog Cutter](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/samoan-fog-cutter.md): Trader Vic's later Samoan revision gives rum, Cognac, and gin an unusually broad tropical base before a sweet sherry float turns the citrus-and-orgeat drink savoury at the surface.
- [Scorpion](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/scorpion.md): White rum and brandy share a large measure of orange and lemon with orgeat in Trader Vic's individual 1972 drink, a distinct descendant rather than a scaled-down communal bowl.
- [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.

## References

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- Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex:32019R0787