Hot Buttered Rum
The Hot Buttered Rum is a sweet, spicy hot drink made with Dark Rum, Butter, Honey and Water. It is stirred and served in a mug, about 9% ABV.
- Method
- Stirred
- Glass
- Mug
- Served
- Hot
- Strength
- About 9% ABV
- Family
- Hot
- Flavour
- Sweet, spicy
- Listed in
- Difford's Guide Hall of Fame
Ingredients
- 60mlDark Rum
- 1 tablespoonButter
- 1 tablespoonHoney
- 120ml hotWater
How to make it
- Combine butter, honey and spices in mug.
- Add rum and hot water.
- Stir until butter melts.
Tip: Stir with plenty of cold, hard ice for 20 to 30 seconds. You want it chilled and silky, not cloudy.
About the Hot Buttered Rum
A colonial New England winter warmer. Caribbean molasses fed the region's rum distilleries from the 1600s, and butter and spice turned the local spirit into a cold-weather comfort.
Missing something?
- No Dark Rum? Use Aged Rum (Lighter, less molasses)
- No Dark Rum? Use Gold Rum (Lighter, less molasses)
- No Honey? Use Honey Syrup (Honey syrup is half water, so use double)
- No Honey? Use Agave Syrup
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