Cocktails with White rum
White rum is a light, mild molasses rum, bottled clear and often charcoal-filtered, in the Spanish-Caribbean "ron ligero" style. It is not neutral: a soft cane character stays under the lightness.
ABV37.5–40%The EU minimum is 37.5%, and US bottlings are 40%.
Substitutes for White rum
Gold or aged rum
Comes closest, in the same amount. It tints the drink and adds vanilla and oak.
Goes in at about two-thirds of the measure. The drink tastes of it.
Rhum agricole blanc or cachaça
Grassier and bolder, and the drink tastes of them.
On the label
- White / Light / Silver / Blanco / Plata
- All the same thing — the clear, light category. The word varies by brand and language; the style doesn’t.
- "aged N years" on a clear rum
- Not a contradiction: many clear rums rest in oak, then are charcoal-filtered back to colorless. "White" is about style, not always about being unaged.
