Cocktails with Cacao & coffee spiced rum
Cacao & coffee spiced rum is a flavoured rum: a distilled rum base to which cacao and coffee flavourings are added, so it is legally a spirit drink built on rum rather than plain rum.
ABV30–37.5%(class); this product is 35% ABV
Taste profile
Coffee leads — roasted and slightly bitter — over a cocoa depth, with mid-level sweetness and a warm rum body underneath.
How it's used
Reached for when a drink needs chocolate-coffee character on a spirit base rather than a neutral rum pour, it works both as a lightly sweet aromatic base measure and as a smaller accent, built or stirred; its added sugar and dominant cacao-coffee aroma mean it is not interchangeable with a dry, unflavoured rum on balance.
Substitutes for Cacao & coffee spiced rum
As an accent, a plain rum with a small amount of coffee or chocolate flavouring approximates it; as a base pour the combined cacao-and-coffee aroma, spirit strength and mid-level sweetness must all be matched — a drier flavoured rum works with added sugar/syrup, but a plain unflavoured rum cannot supply the chocolate-coffee character and fails as a straight swap.
