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Rum Punch Cocktails are great all year long! With 4 kinds of rum, pineapple juice, and grenadine, this easy cocktail recipe packs a PUNCH! I’m showing you how to make a single drink OR a party punch! If you’re looking for a party punch that will take you to the beach, this is it!

A tropical cocktail with orange-red liquid, crushed ice, a maraschino cherry, and a pineapple wedge garnish. Pineapple and lime slices are in the background.

I’d never had or made rum punch until a trip to Las Vegas a few years ago. I love rum in cocktails, but I’d never had this! The cocktail I had was a ginormous glass filled with 4 kinds of rum, pineapple, and grenadine and I knew I wanted to recreate it. I made you a rum punch cocktail for one…or you can make an actual party punch.

The recipe and photos have been updated from the original to better reflect the actual drink flavors. The original recipe is written in the notes of the recipe card.

Two bottles of Bacardi rum, a fresh pineapple, canned pineapple juice, orange juice, grenadine, and lime juice are arranged on a white surface with a light background.

Rum Punch Ingredients

  • Orange Juice and Pineapple Juice add fresh, sweet fruit flavors to the drink.
  • This punch has two kinds of rum, usually white rum and dark rum. In place of the dark rum you can use spiced rum, gold rum, or coconut rum.
  • Fresh lime juice adds a little acidity to contrast the sweetness of the fruit juices and rum.
  • Grenadine is basically a cherry flavored simple syrup and gives the drink its signature red color and adds a lot of sweetness to the drink. (Have extra? Make a Dirty Shirley.)
  • Want it even sweeter? Add simple syrup.
  • Traditional rum punch recipes are garnished with maraschino cherries and either orange slices, lime slices and/or pineapple wedges.

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How to make a Rum Punch Recipe for a Crowd

The recipe as written serves 2, but if you want to make this as a big batch cocktail it’s easy to turn it into a punch or rum bucket. For 8 servings you can multiply all of the ingredients by 8 and if you want it to go even further, add some ginger ale or lemon lime soda to increase the volume of the recipe.

Dorothy’s Testing Notes

  • To avoid watering down the drink you can use frozen pineapple instead of ice. Or freeze one of the juices (or cranberry juice) in ice cube trays to use in place of actual ice.
  • It’s easy to make it stronger or weaker depending on your preference, just add more juice or more alcohol.
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Rum Punch Recipe

By: Dorothy Kern
Rum Punch Cocktails are great all year long! With 4 kinds of rum, pineapple juice, and grenadine, this easy cocktail recipe packs a PUNCH!
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 1 serving
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Ingredients

For two Rum Punch Cocktails

  • 2 ounces white rum
  • 2 ounces dark or spiced rum
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • 1 cup pineapple juice
  • 2 ounces lime juice
  • 2 ounces grenadine (add up to another ounce for more flavor)
  • Pineapple wedge, orange and/or lemon slice, and cherry for garnish

For a punch:

  • 2 cups white rum
  • 2 cups dark or spiced rum
  • 4 cups pineapple juice
  • 4 cups orange juice
  • 2 cups grenadine
  • 2-4 cups ginger ale or lemon lime soda (optional)

Instructions 

For 2 drinks:

  • Mix all ingredients in a measuring cup or small pitcher.
  • Pour over ice into two hurricane glasses.

For party punch:

  • Mix all ingredients in a large pitcher. Only add soda right before serving.
  • To keep punch cold: freeze pineapple juice ice cubes ahead of time and/or fill pitcher with frozen pineapple instead of ice.

Notes

Original Rum Punch Recipe: 1 ounce each white rum, coconut rum, spiced rum, and flavored rum (such as mango) mixed with 2 ounces pineapple juice and a dash of grenadine.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 308kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 73mg | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin C: 5.7mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Variations on Rum Punch

  • Use coconut rum for a coconut rum punch
  • Use other tropical flavors like mango, passionfruit, or POG for the juice
  • Use any flavored rum
  • Use zero proof spirits to make a NA Rum Punch drink.

History of Rum Punch

It’s believed that rum punch has roots in the 17th-century, from the sailors of the British East India Company. The original ingredients included alcohol, sugar, citrus water, and spices. In the mid 1600s the sailors had colonized Jamaica and had added Jamaican rum to the mix. The drink actually provided a purpose back in the exploration days: the citrus in the punch helped prevent scurvy and the sugar helped make the drink easier to get down (it was very strong back then).

Today, rum punch has many variations across the Caribbean, using different flavors, juices, spices, and rums depending on the location and establishment.

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