Venezuela Libre

An “improved” Cuba Libre said to have originated in Venezuela.

Ingredients

¾ oz lime juice
3 oz cola
½ oz gin
1 ½ oz rum
2 dashes Angostura Amoritic Bitters

Directions

Half fill a highball glass with ice.

Add the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake well.

Pour into glass over ice.

Cuba Libre

Rum and Coke, or the Cuba libre, is a highball cocktail consisting of cola, rum, and in many recipes lime juice on ice.

Ingredients

1 part rum
3 parts cola
1 lime wedge/splash of lime juice

Directions

Add one part cola to a high ball glass.

Add three parts cola.

Add lime wedge or a splash of lime juice.

Rum Runner

The Rum Runner was first concocted in 1972 by John Ebert at the Tiki Bar of the Holiday Isle Resort, on the island of Islamorada in the Florida Keys.

Ingredients

1 oz light rum
1 oz dark rum
1 oz banana liqueur
½ oz blackberry liqueur
1 oz pineapple juice
1 splash grendine

Directions

Add all ingredients to an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake until chilled.

Strain into a tall glass, like a hurricane glass, over ice.