Cocktails with rum and lime
6 recipes here use both. None are pourable from those two alone, but 3 are a single ingredient away.
Can make with these
Nothing, on those two alone — every recipe here is a mixed drink and needs at least one more thing. The nearest is the Daiquiri, which needs only sugar syrup.
One more ingredient
Other close matches
- Mai Tai IBA No pineapple juice. The real one is rum, lime, orange and almond. needs triple sec and orgeat
- Mojito IBA Press the mint, do not shred it. Bruised mint tastes like a lawn. needs sugar syrup, fresh mint and soda water
- Planter’s Punch IBA One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak. needs sugar syrup, soda water and angostura bitters
The one thing to add
Sugar syrup — the only thing between you and a Daiquiri.
Do not buy this. Equal parts sugar and hot water, stirred until clear, keeps a month in the fridge and costs pennies. More about sugar syrup.
Questions
- What cocktails can you make with rum and lime?
- 6 recipes on Drinki use both rum and lime: Cuba Libre, Daiquiri, Dark ’n’ Stormy, Mai Tai, Mojito and Planter’s Punch.
- Can you make anything with just rum and lime and nothing else?
- No — every one of these 6 recipes needs at least one more ingredient. The shortest hop is sugar syrup, which is all that stands between you and a Daiquiri.
- What should you buy next if you have rum and lime?
- Sugar syrup — the only thing between you and a Daiquiri.
About each one
"rum" covers white rum and dark rum here — each recipe says which.
- White rum 6 cocktails on Drinki · Light sugarcane sweetness, a little vanilla and coconut, and a faint grassy edge
- Dark rum 4 cocktails on Drinki · Molasses, dried fruit, toffee and oak, sometimes with a bitter burnt-sugar edge
- Limes 21 cocktails on Drinki · Sharper and more aromatic than lemon, with a faint bitterness in the oils that lemon does not have