The official beverage of Puerto Rico, it’s a sweet, rum-based cocktail with coconut cream and pineapple juice blended, or shaken with, ice.

A hurricane is a very sweet cocktail made from rum, passionfruit and lime popular in New Orleans.

Also known in some places as a China Blue, is typically a pale semi-translucent blue in colour, and is served in a chilled Collins tumbler.

Made with rum, orange curacao and orgeat syrup, it’s a well-known alcoholic cocktail purportedly invented at the Trader Vic’s “Polynesian-style” restaurant in Oakland, California in 1944.

A strong drink made with vodka, gin, tequila, cointreau, and rum.

It has been suggested that this drink was invented during the Prohibition era in the US because of its similarity to non-alcoholic iced tea. However, it is thought that it was actually invented by a bartender in Long Island, New York, in the late 1970’s.

A variation of the manhattan using white rum.

The daiquiri was invented around 1905 in the Venus bar in Santiago by american mining engineers and has spawned many variations over the years, particularly of the frozen variety. It is made of rum and lime juice. [source wikipedia]

The daiquiri was invented around 1905 in the Venus bar in Santiago by american mining engineers and has spawned many variations over the years, particularly of the frozen variety. It is made of rum and lime juice. [source wikipedia]

Named after Hemingway’s nickname in Cuba, it is a variation of the Daiquiri Floridita exchaging the lime juice with grapefruit juice.

Arguably the most famous version of the daiquiri, it also uses maraschino liqueur and served frozen.