9 Bacardi Drinks That Let You Taste the Tropics

Liven up your day with a Bacardi rum drink. Sunshine in a cup. A sour daiquiri in your favorite coupe. Exploring something a little different with a rum mule. Stick to the familiar and find a new favorite version, or jump all in to the Bacardi bottle with a recipe you'd never dream of. Let's get shaking!

The Bacardi cocktail is not a modern cocktail, not even close. This little number burst onto the scene right after Prohibition was kicked out the door. You'll find the recipe looks quite similar to a daiquiri.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Bacardi rum
• ½ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ½ ounce grenadine
• Ice
• Lime ribbon for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill a coupe glass.
2. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Bacardi rum, lime juice, and grenadine.
3. Shake to chill.
4. Strain into the chilled glass.
5. Garnish with a lime ribbon.

If you, like me, aren't always a fan of stemware because you have flying elbows or you just don't live for the thrill of possibly spilling your drink as it goes from surface to lips and back to the surface, then this is your Bacardi cocktail solution.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Bacardi rum
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ¾ ounce grenadine
• Ice
• Orange or lime wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Bacardi rum, lime juice, and grenadine.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with an orange wedge or lime wedge.

The rum punch: a drink that's as old as time in many versions, many recipes, and many places around the world. Start, or continue, your rum punch journey with this Bacardi ingredient-forward version.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces Bacardi silver rum
• ¾ ounce Bacardi dark rum
• 1 ounce pineapple juice
• ½ ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
• ½ ounce cranberry juice
• ¼ ounce grenadine
• Ice
• Mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Bacardi silver rum, Bacardi dark rum, pineapple juice, orange juice, cranberry juice, lime juice, and grenadine.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Possibly the most famous or at least recognizable of the rum drinks: the minty, the refreshing, the beautifully muddled mojito. There's no wrong way to take the mojito journey, with muddled mint or using mint simple syrup. All that matters is that first sip slows down the world and makes problems melt away.

Ingredients

• 6-8 fresh mint leaves
• 1½ ounces Bacardi silver rum
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ¾ ounce simple syrup
• Crushed ice
• Club soda to top off
• Mint sprig and lime wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, muddle mint leaves with lime juice and simple syrup.
2. Add crushed ice and rum.
3. Shake to chill.
4. Pour, do not strain, into a highball glass.
5. Top off with club soda.
6. Stir once to mix.
7. Garnish with a lime wedge and mint sprig.

There's no arguing the daiquiri is a signature rum cocktail, it just isn't as recognizable across the bar as a mojito is. That's no reason not to order one. Especially since this Bacardi daiquiri is a reliable drink order.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Bacardi silver rum
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ½ ounce simple syrup
• Ice
• Lime ribbon for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill a coupe glass.
2. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Bacardi silver rum, lime juice, and simple syrup.
3. Shake to chill.
4. Strain into a chilled glass.
5. Garnish with a lime ribbon.

Not the blended strawberry daiquiri, oh no, this is the elegantly chilled and shaken red berry Bacardi daiquiri. Blenders and sugary flavors need not apply. Oh, you're a blender looking for work? No problem. These strawberry daiquiri recipes will do the trick.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Bacardi silver
• 5-6 fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced OR ¾ ounce strawberry syrup
• ½ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ¼ ounce simple syrup
• Ice
• Strawberry slices and mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill a martini glass or coupe.
2. In a cocktail shaker, muddle strawberries with simple syrup.
3. Add ice, Bacardi rum, and lime juice.
4. Shake to chill.
5. Double strain into the chilled glass.
6. Garnish with strawberry slices and a mint sprig.

If you're feeling sour, you can add a splash or two of lime juice to mirror the OG Moscow Mule recipe. Or live the two-ingredient cocktail dream. Don't be afraid to swap your silver rum for spiced rum, to make a Bacardi spiced mule.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces Bacardi silver rum OR Bacardi spiced rum
• Cracked ice
• Ginger beer to top off
• Mint sprig and lime wheel for garnish

Instructions

1. In a copper mug or rocks glass, add cracked ice and Bacardi rum.
2. Top off with ginger beer.
3. Stir once to mix.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig and lime wheel.

You may know the usual Cuba libre, or rum and cola, as a spiced rum highball. But give that bottle the night off and let Bacardi gold rum out to play today.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Bacardi gold rum
• ¼ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• Ice
• Cola to top off
• Lime wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. In a highball glass, add ice, Bacardi gold rum, and lime juice.
2. Top off with cola.
3. Stir once to mix.
4. Garnish with a lime wedge.

You think all hurricane recipes are the same. And you're not wrong, but there's more than one category of hurricane in nature, and there's more than one way to blow everyone away with a hurricane cocktail.

Ingredients

• 1 ounce Bacardi dark rum
• ¾ ounce Bacardi silver rum
• 1½ ounces passion fruit syrup OR passion fruit puree
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ¼ ounce grenadine
• Ice
• Orange slice for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Bacardi dark rum, Bacardi silver rum, passion fruit syrup, orange juice, lime juice, and grenadine.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a hurricane or pilsner glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with an orange slice.

Add Bacardi rum to your liquor store list or pull that bottle out from the back of your cabinet. It's time to make rum cocktails that really pop and glow. Revive standard recipes with a new twist and find a recipe or two that'll convince the non-rum drinkers in your life to sip something else for once. They're that good.