Scottish Spiced Rum Cocktails

Rum is an essential component in over 1/3 of the World’s greatest cocktails. We’ve just made it even better by adding The 45 Scottish Spiced rum into the mix. Please send us pics of your versions - the real joy of cocktail-making is putting your own twist on things.

Enjoy responsibly, obvs.

The 45 Sunrise: Scottish Spiced Rum Cocktail

The 45 Sunrise combines the perfect fruit partners to Spiced Rum: orange and pineapple. It also has a little kick from the addition of a good, orange liqueur. We used Cointreau to partner with our French friends but there’s lots of other options.
How to make it:

• 1.5 shots of The 45

• 1 shot of orange liqueur

• 1 shot of orange juice

• 1 shot of pineapple juice

• Juice of half a lime

• Shake on ice

• Add a teaspoon of grenadine

• Serve up with a slice

Spiced Rum Mojito - Spiced Rum Classic Cocktail

A simple, refreshing and very, very tasty all-year-round cocktail that zings! The key to this cocktail is getting the sugar and mint to mix, dissolve and release all of that flavour. Once you’ve made your first, you’ll be an expert! Enjoy!

• Crush small bunch of fresh mint with a teaspoon of sugar and the juice from one lime in a tall glass

• Add a generous shot of The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• Stir, fill the glass with ice and top up with soda water (or, if you prefer it, a little sweeter, a lemonade)

• Garnish with fresh mint leaves and a wedge of lime

Spiced Rum Cocktail- The 45 Sidecar

One of the most refined cocktails there is, this is the height of sophistication. Throw on some jazz, pretend you like it, talk in long, slow sentences and quote people you don’t know. Or, just get on with mixing up this belter of a cocktail based on the classic Sidecar.

• 1 shot of The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• 1/2 shot cognac

• 1/2 shot orange liqueur

• Squeeze of fresh orange juice

• Shake over ice and serve with confidence

• Garnish with a twist of orange 

Spiced Rum Cocktails: The Juicy Jacobite 45

We’ve all heard of a Singapore Sling - made famous at the Raffles hotel in that exotic city. This cocktail is a definite nod to those flavours and combines many of the ingredients. Try it as your first of the afternoon and it won’t disappoint.

• 1 shot of The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• 1 shot Cherry brandy

• 1.5 shots of Pineapple juice

• Squeeze of lime

• Shake over ice

• Top with lemonade

Scottish Spiced Rum Cocktail: Dark and Stormy

Cocktails don't have to be complicated! Spiced Rum is made for mixing with ginger beer. Combining ginger beer with The 45 is a heavenly partnership. We recommend you decide on your ginger beer depending on your own taste - from the fiery and fierce to the mellow and mild, it all works. This is Jacobite Ronnie's "The 45 Spiced and Stormy” and it’s quick, easy and delicious.

• Fill a tall glass with ice

• Squeeze the juice of half a lime over it

• Add 1.5 shots (or more/less) of The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• Top up with a good ginger beer

• Garnish with a slice of lime.

Spiced Rum Pina Colada- Scottish Spiced Rum

Love cocktails, love spiced rum - it's the essential ingredient in more than 1/3 of the world's greatest cocktails! And if you just take a second to imagine the perfect cocktail on a sunny beach, what could be more delicious than creamy coconut, tangy pineapple and superbly spiced rum!

• Pineapple juice

• Coconut milk

• Single or double shot of The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• Crushed ice

• Blend for creamy texture

• Garnish with slice of pineapple and maraschino cherry

Spiced Rum Cocktail- The Negroni

Another of the world’s favourite cocktails, often sitting in the top three most enjoyed drinks. It is bitter, sharp, refreshing and strong. By removing the edge and floral character of gin and replacing with spiced rum, this Negroni is familiar but powerful. It enhances even the blandest of vermouths!

• 1 shot of The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• 1 Shot of sweet, red vermouth

• 1 shot of Campari

• Pour over a short glass full of ice and stir

• Garnish with a twist of orange making sure to release the oils over the top

The Old Pretender

Another twist on a classic champagne cocktail but with less fruit than our Bowler (right). You can really taste the rum in thisb- the lime and bitters lift it and it tastes incredible. Sophisticated and delicious and a nod to the older Jacobite.

• 1 shot of The 45, shaken with juice of half a lime over ice

• Pour into glass with sugar cube soaked in angostura bitters

• Top up with sparkling wine

Spiced Rum Cocktail Ideas: Bob’s Flying Dome

This is Bob’s Flying Dome… a Scottish homage to the original UFO sighting in Roswell on this day in 1947. And YES, that’s a Tunnock’s Tea Cake. Bob Taylor recorded Scotland’s most famous UFO sighting in 1979, near Livingston. If you’re a UFO spotter, or if you like cocktails or Scottish confectionery, this is for you!

How to make Bob’s Flying Dome:

• One shot of The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• 1/2 shot Pernod

• One shot pineapple juice

• Dash of bitters

• Shake over ice and pour over a tall glass of ice

• Top up with sparkling wine and a drizzle of grenadine

• Garnish with a Scottish silver dome

Spiced Rum Daiquiri- Spiced Rum Cocktail with Strawberry

A cocktail favourite ideal for a red-hot afternoon. Smooth and sweet and very, very easy to make, the Daiquiri is a refreshing taste of summer. Scottish Rum and Scottish strawberries, if you can get them…heaven.

• Use a “Simply strawberry” blendable smoothie (or similar product)

• Ice (mix half-and-half with Strawberry smoothie)

• Single shot of The 45, or a double if it’s really sunny… as recommended by cocktail connoisseur Jacobite Ronnie

• Blend

• Pour

• Garnish with strawberry

• Drink

The Palmetto- a Scottish Spiced Rum classic

An increasingly popular cocktail, this is almost a sweeter version of a negroni (left). Adding the orange liqueur and bitters just gives it a sweeter edge. Featuring Jacobite Spirits Co's signature product, The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum, it’s worth giving a go and it’s a definite crowd-pleaser.

• 1 1/2 shots of the 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• 1 1/2 shots sweet red vermouth

• 1/2 shot of Cointreau

• Dash of orange or other bitters of your choice

• Shake over ice and garnish with cherries

Champagne Bowler, reimagined: The 45 Batter

Bolder and stronger than a champagne bowler, and definitely a bit more extravagant - we developed this one for world rum day. There are actually two ways to drink it. As pictured, this is a strained cocktail. But it works equally well with all of the fruit in there and served in a big wine glass, like a sangria.

• Rub rim of glass with strawberry then dip in brown sugar

• In a shaker, muddle 2 strawberries with 1/2 teaspoon of syrup

• Add 1 shot of The 45 Scottish Spiced Rum

• Add 1/2 shot of cognac

• Add 1/2 shot of dry white wine

• Shake over ice, strain into glass

• Top up with Champagne (or sparkling wine)

• Add a slice of strawberry