Dark Rum
Dark Rum is a rum carried here in 2 forms from 40% ABV to 76% ABV, used in 11 drinks on this site.
Public domain · Cropped, white-balanced, graded and re-encoded to WebP by eXir.
A bottle of dark navy rum with a red and gold label
Composition · Standard strength
USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy) · 174817. Alcoholic beverage, distilled, rum, 80 proof. Public domain. FoodData Central does not separate dark or aged rum from the white spirit at the same proof, and unflavoured rum's composition does not change with cask colour, so the white rum record's own figures apply unchanged; only the colour, the wood and the price differ. Covers the Jamaican-style pot-still dark and aged rum called for in tiki and punch recipes, standing in for both a young dark rum and a rum aged several years, neither of which FoodData Central lists separately from the other.
Composition · 151-proof demerara
Derived from standard ethanol-water tables. FoodData Central carries rum only up to 100 US proof (SR Legacy 173664), well short of the 151-proof (75.5% ABV) demerara style Guyanese producers bottle for tiki use. Density and energy are computed from the published density of ethanol-water mixtures at 75.5% ABV by volume (interpolated from the OIML alcoholometric tables, roughly 0.867 g/ml against 0.789 for pure ethanol and 0.998 for water) rather than measured in a bottle, so both are marked estimated. Energy follows from that: the alcohol mass in 100 ml (75.5 ml x 0.789 g/ml = 59.6 g) at 7.1 kcal/g of ethanol gives about 423 kcal per 100 ml, or 488 kcal per 100 g once divided back through the density. Sugar and carbohydrate stay at zero, as for any unsweetened spirit at any proof.
Used in these drinks
most first- Mai Tai60 ml
- Mai Tai · Contemporary60 ml
- Painkiller60 ml
- Dark and Stormy50 ml
- Jungle Bird45 ml
- Planters Punch45 ml
- Caribbean Rum Punch45 ml
- Zombie45 ml
- Coquito30 ml
- Zombie30 ml
- Eggnog · Aged20 ml
Substitutes
White rum: Loses the molasses and oak notes a dark or aged rum carries, and the drink reads thinner and less spiced even at the same proof.
A general substitute is a browsing aid rather than a drink-specific claim. Where a particular drink has a substitution worth making, it says so on its own page and recomputes the spec for it.