Cocktails with Spiced rum
Spiced rum is a sugarcane-based rum infused with spices such as vanilla, cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg.
ABV40–50%
Taste profile
Rounded and lightly viscous on the palate, closing on a warm, mellow finish carried by vanilla, cinnamon, and clove over an underlying molasses sweetness.
How it's used
Bartenders pour it as a flavour-forward base measure, built or shaken, where its spice sweetness reduces or replaces added sugar and stands up to citrus and longer mixers.
Substitutes for Spiced rum
A dark or gold rum dosed with a little sugar and a pinch of warm baking spice.
Description
Distillers take a molasses- or cane-based rum and steep or blend it with warm baking spices, botanicals, and often added caramel or sweeteners, giving the finished spirit a darker colour and rounded body.
Origin
Rum production developed in the sugarcane-growing Caribbean, where surplus molasses from sugar refining was distilled into spirit.
