We’ve rounded up 10 easy-to-create Rum-based cocktails from 10 popular cafes and bars in Mumbai so that you can spice up your next house party without breaking the bank.
1. Rum Sling
Bar Bar – the city’s wholesale Bar, has added a quick orange-y twist to good ol’ rum.
What’s in it:
30ml Bacardi
30ml Old Monk
5 to 6 Fresh Oranges
60ml Orange Juice
15ml Lime Juice
How to make it:
Mix all ingredients with ice. Stir and pour into a chilled glass. Garnish with a fresh orange slice.
2. Monk’s Mule – Socials
Our favorite neighborhood place shares the secret to that Old Monk cocktail you always order and love to drink – and it is incredibly easy to make!
What’s in it:
60ml Old monk
15ml Fresh ginger juice
8 pieces of Mint leaves
60ml Pineapple juice
1 can Ginger Ale
10ml Sugar syrup
10ml Fresh lime juice
How to make it:
Muddle the mint leaves along with sugar syrup and fresh lime juice in a tall glass. Fill the glass up with ice cubes. Add ginger juice, pineapple juice and rum (Old Monk). Top the drink with ginger ale and garnish with candied ginger and a mint sprig.
3. Bombay Gulabo – Bombay Cocktail Bar
Mumbai got its first cocktail bar recently and they’ve come up with a Bombay special with Rum!
What’s in it:
45ml Old Monk
½ Fresh orange chunks
30ml Rose syrup/ Roohafza
20ml Fresh lime juice
Handful of mint leaves
Pinch of jal-jeera
Splash of soda
Orange wedge and mint spring
How to make it:
Take a tall glass, add all of the ingredients and mix well, garnish with an orange wedge and mint spring.
4. Monk of the east – Dashanzi, JW Marriott Juhu
Literally from the east!
What’s in it:
60ml Cardamom infused dark rum
15ml Freshly squeezed lime juice
15ml Simple syrup
Splash of Ginger Beer
Garnish with a mint sprig
How to make it:
Add all ingredients, mix well, splash some beer and garnish with mint sprig!
5. Rum Barrel – Asado, The Cocktail Street
Asado’s cocktails, are quirky and DELICIOUS! Try this one.
What’s in it:
90ml Old Monk
30ml sugar syrup
120ml mango juice (chilled)
60ml pineapple juice (chilled)
15 – 20ml lemon juice
15ml grenadine or cranberry juice
Splash of soda (Chilled)
How to make it:
Add the juices, sugar syrup and rum. Splash some chilled soda, mix well before serving.
6. Roorkee – True Tramm Trunk
We are all big fans of T3’s cocktails, which hilariously represent the different states in India. This one is easy and delicious:
90ml Old Monk
10ml Coca Cola
1 cup Coffee beans
How to make it:
Mix a batch of Old Monk with coffee beans and let them sit overnight. Strain and add Coca-Cola to it. Mix well. Serve chilled.
7. Rum Café Gola – Woodside Inn
Gola is and will always be a fun beverage, always. So recreate a nostalgic moment and enjoy an old memory along with some amazing booze!
What’s in it:
60ml Old monk
30ml Expresso
60ml Condense milk
Garnish with coco powder
How to make it:
Make a crushed ice Gola with clean hands. Pour the drink on the gola. Garnish with a drizzle of condensed milk and a generous sprinkle of cocoa powder.
8. Dark N Stormy – Reise All-day Bar & Kitchen
For someone who likes their booze with a bitter taste!
What’s in it:
60ml Old Monk
180ml ginger ale
dash of lime juice
dash of bitters (Angostura bitters)
How to make it:
Top the Old Monk, lime juice and bitters with some ginger ale and mix well. Serve with dry ice
9. T for Tonic – The Lighthouse Café
This one will leave you feeling all fresh and ready to take on the world!
What’s in it:
10ml Ginger Juice(Fresh)
10leaf Curry Leaves
60ml Sour Mix
45ml Old Monk
1 can Tonic Water
6 cube Ice
How to make it:
Add and mix in the same order given as above.
10. Zoomonk – Zoobar
A tangy sweet and sour experience you’ll never forget!
What’s in it:
Few chunks of Fresh Pineapple
60ml Pineapple Juice
10ml Sweet and Sour Mix
45ml Old Monk
Basil Leaves for garnishing
How to make it:
Mash up the fresh Pineapple, mix all the ingredients together in a shaker and strain it in a Collin glass. Garnish the drink with a Basil leaf and serve.
Photo: © Offline True Tramm,Trunk,Woodside Inn,Reise (Main Image)