Six Great Gluten-Free Cocktails with Meyers's Rum

Celiac.com 02/04/2022 - Meyers's has been synonymous with great rum since its founding in Kingston, Jamaica by Fred L. Myers's in 1879. Myers's high quality, genuine Jamaican rum, has earned worldwide popularity among rum lovers. Winter, spring, summer or fall, here are six great cocktails with Meyers's rum.

Meyers's Old Fashioned

This rum version of the classic Old Fashioned is a great way to toast any occasion.

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Ingredients:

• 1½ parts Original Dark Rum
• ½ teaspoon granulated sugar
• A few dashes of bitters
• water
• 1 Maraschino cherry for garnish
• 1 orange or lemon peel for garnish

Directions:
Pour all ingredients into the old fashioned glass
Add hot water
Stir with a spoon until honey is dissolved
Express the orange zest and serve

Meyers's Rum Planters Punch

Rum punch is a time-honored holiday classic, and this version with Meyer's Original Dark Rum is just about as iconic as it comes.

Ingredients:

• 1 part freshly squeezed lime juice
• 2 parts simple syrup
• 3 parts Original Dark Rum
• A dash of bitters
• Orange slices, as garnish

Directions:
Mix in a shaker filled with ice
Shake well
Serve in a highball glass filled with shaved ice
Garnish with an orange slice

Meyers's Cuba Libre

Ingredients:

• 1½ ounces Meyers's White Rum or Meyers's Original Dark Rum
• 3 ounces Cola
• 2 Lime Wedges

Directions:
Fill a highball glass with ice. Add Meyers's White Rum and Cola. Garnish with lime wedges. Use Original Dark Rum for a bolder, richer flavor.

Meyers's Piña Colada

Ingredients:

• 1½ ounces Myers's Original Dark Rum
• 1 ounce cream of coconut (canned)
• 2 ounces unsweetened pineapple juice
• ½ cup crushed ice
• 1 pineapple stick, as garnish
• 1 maraschino cherry, as garnish

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in shaker or blender.
Shake, or blend at low speed, for 10 to 15 seconds.
Pour over ice cubes in a tall glass.
Garnish with a pineapple stick and cherry.

Meyers's Lime Daiquiri

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces Meyers's White Rum
• 1 ounces Lime Juice
• 2 teaspoon Extra Fine Sugar

Directions:
Place sugar and freshly pressed lime juice into a cocktail shaker and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
Pour in the Meyers's Original Dark and fill the shaker with half-cubed ice, followed by some half-crushed ice.
Place the lid on the shaker and shake vigorously until thoroughly chilled.
Finally, strain through a fine tea strainer into a chilled coupette.

Meyers's Rum Ginger Beer

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces Ginger Beer
• 3 ounces Meyers's Rum

Directions:
Pour Meyers's rum into a rocks glass with ice.
Add ginger beer.
Garnish.
Serve.