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Cocktails with white rum and lime

4 recipes here use both. None are pourable from those two alone, but 2 are a single ingredient away.

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 white rum and lime?
4 recipes on Drinki use both white rum and lime: Cuba Libre, Daiquiri, Mai Tai and Mojito.
Can you make anything with just white rum and lime and nothing else?
No — every one of these 4 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 white rum and lime?
Sugar syrup — the only thing between you and a Daiquiri.

About each one

  • White rum 6 cocktails on Drinki · Light sugarcane sweetness, a little vanilla and coconut, and a faint grassy edge
  • Limes 21 cocktails on Drinki · Sharper and more aromatic than lemon, with a faint bitterness in the oils that lemon does not have

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