The rum cocktails every superyacht bartender should know

As the Caribbean season gets into full swing, we round-up the best rum cocktail recipes every superyacht bartender should have in their repertoire...

Gosling's Dark 'n' Stormy

As a trademarked cocktail, a true Dark 'n' Stormy can only be made with Gosling's Black Seal rum, so make sure you have some on board for a truly authentic taste.

Ingredients

• 50ml Gosling's Black Seal Rum
• Gosling's Stormy ginger beer
• Lime

Method

1. Add ice cubes to a highball glass
2. Pour in the Gosling’s Stormy Ginger Beer
3. Add 50ml of Gosling’s Black Seal Rum
4. Finish with a squeeze of lime (optional)

This cocktail, inspired by the sailors who traditionally drank rum on board, takes Lamb's classic Navy Rum as its base.

Ingredients

• 35ml Lamb's Navy Rum
• 10ml Green Chartreuse
• 15ml Benedictine
• 2 dash Angostura bitters

Method

1. Combine all ingredients in a small martini glass
2. Stir
3. Garnish with fragolino

Created by the team at Oil Nut Bay, one of the British Virgin Island's most exclusive resorts accessible only by boat or helicopter, this tropical concoction brings together all the exotic flavours of the Caribbean.

Ingredients

• 1 shot Cruzan Gold rum
• 1 shot mango juice
• 1 shot orange juice
• 1 shot crème de cacao
• Splash of Grenadine
• Grated nutmeg

Method

1. Blend all ingredients with ice until frothy
2. Pour into a tall glass and garnish with a light dusting of grated nutmeg
3. Garnish with a citrus wedge and a cherry
4. Support Oil Nut Bay's North Sound Foundation to help the rebuild effort in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

Synonymous with laid back Barbadian life, Mount Gay's Liar Liar cocktail is a must for any luxury yacht cruise in the Caribbean.

Ingredients

• 50ml Mount Gay XO
• 20ml Cocchi americano
• 20ml la Fontaine chocolate liqueur infused over night with three fig leaves
• 5ml Gammeldansk
• Dandelion and burdock bitters

Method

1. Put all ingredients into a cocktail shaker
2. Stir and strain into a cocktail glass
3. Garnish with orange peel

The speciality of the Cubanika Bar at the The Ritz-Carlton, Abama - which boasts one of the world's most extensive mojito menus - the Canarian Mojito offers a fruity twist on this much-loved cocktail.

Ingredients

• 50ml Honey Rum
• 30ml Banana Liqueur
• 25ml lime juice
• 25ml liquid sugar
• 30ml soda
• 12 mint leaves
• 6 slices of lime

Method

1. Muddle mint leaves and four slices of lime in a tall glass and fill with ice
2. Put rum, banana liqueur, lime juice and sugar into a cocktail shaker
3. Shake and strain into cocktail glass
4. Top up with soda
5. Garnish with remaining lime slices

Perhaps one of the best known rum cocktails of all time, an Old Fashioned is for the true rum connoisseur who likes to taste the spirit in their drink. Made with Eximo, a sipping rum from Facundo using the Bacardi family private reserve, this is for the true cocktail hour sophisticate.

Ingredients

• 1 sugar cube
• A large dash of Bittermens Boston Bittahs
• 50ml Facundo Eximo Sipping Rum
• 5cm diameter ice sphere
• Twist of orange

Method

1. Add sugar cube to glass
2. Add large dash of bitters directly to cube
3. Muddle cube
4. Add ice sphere
5. Add Facundo Eximo rum and stir
6. Garnish with a twist of orange peel