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Highball · Muddled and built · Historical · complexity 2/5

Rum Smash

Applegreen extends the compact smash pattern to rum, confirming that the family remains openly transferable by base spirit.

mint · sweet · refreshing · warming · summer · refreshing · casual

Served in Old-fashioned toddy glass. Ice: 1 lump.

Family

Variants (2)

Applegreen's Bar Book by John Applegreen (1904, p.48) — Applegreen 1904

1 jiggerDark rum — rumbase
1 wholeSugar cube — sugar lumpbase
1 lumpice — iceother
mint — mintother
  1. Prepare as for the whiskey smash, substituting rum for whiskey.
  2. Serve stirred in the glass.

Ice: 1 lump

Nose
Mint and rum rise together from the glass.
Palate
This matters because it keeps the smash family visibly modular across spirits rather than treating whiskey as its sole endpoint.
Finish
The finish is cool, minty, and slightly richer than the whiskey version.
Summary
A rum branch of the compact smash family.

L'Art du Shaker by Dominique Migliorero (1925, p.59)

1 glassrum — Rumbase
  1. Prepare following the Brandy Smash method, replacing cognac with rum.

See also: Whiskey Smash, Brandy Smash, Gin Smash

Cross-reference recipe; the source instructs using the Brandy Smash preparation with rum substituted for cognac.