Royal Bermuda Yachtclub Cocktail

About the Royal Bermuda Yachtclub Cocktail

The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Cocktail is a classic tiki-style sour built on Timber Creek Florida Rum, brightened with lime juice, Cointreau, and John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum for a spiced, citrusy finish. Shaken hard and strained into a coupe, it is a crisp, well-balanced drink that leans into rum’s natural affinity for citrus and spice.

Rum is the traditional backbone of this style of cocktail, and Timber Creek Florida Rum brings the depth needed to keep the drink from tasting like a simple citrus cordial. Distilled from grain and aged individually before being blended by component under the PureBlend process, the rum carries caramel and light spice notes that pair naturally with falernum’s clove and almond character and Cointreau’s orange sweetness, giving the drink real dimension rather than one-note sweetness. To build it, shake the rum, lime juice, Cointreau, and falernum hard with ice, then strain into a chilled coupe.

Garnish with a lime wheel, which adds a bit of citrus aroma to each sip and reinforces the drink’s bright, tropical character throughout the glass. This cocktail’s tropical, citrus-forward profile makes it a natural match for coconut shrimp, pineapple salsa, jerk chicken, mango salad, or plantain chips, the same kind of food you would want at a warm-weather cookout or beach gathering. Given Timber Creek’s own Florida roots, this is an easy pour for an outdoor summer party or a casual dockside dinner with friends.

Trader Vic (Victor Bergeron) created this drink and published it in his 1947 Bartender’s Guide. Enjoy it at a reasonable pace, and make sure you and your guests have a safe way home arranged well before the shaking starts and the pours add up over the course of the night.

The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Cocktail is a classic tiki-style sour built on Timber Creek Florida Rum, brightened with lime juice, Cointreau, and John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum for a spiced, citrusy finish. Shaken hard and strained into a coupe, it is a crisp, well-balanced drink that leans into rum’s natural affinity for citrus and spice.

Rum is the traditional backbone of this style of cocktail, and Timber Creek Florida Rum brings the depth needed to keep the drink from tasting like a simple citrus cordial. Distilled from grain and aged individually before being blended by component under the PureBlend process, the rum carries caramel and light spice notes that pair naturally with falernum’s clove and almond character and Cointreau’s orange sweetness, giving the drink real dimension rather than one-note sweetness. To build it, shake the rum, lime juice, Cointreau, and falernum hard with ice, then strain into a chilled coupe.

Garnish with a lime wheel, which adds a bit of citrus aroma to each sip and reinforces the drink’s bright, tropical character throughout the glass. This cocktail’s tropical, citrus-forward profile makes it a natural match for coconut shrimp, pineapple salsa, jerk chicken, mango salad, or plantain chips, the same kind of food you would want at a warm-weather cookout or beach gathering. Given Timber Creek’s own Florida roots, this is an easy pour for an outdoor summer party or a casual dockside dinner with friends.

Trader Vic (Victor Bergeron) created this drink and published it in his 1947 Bartender’s Guide. Enjoy it at a reasonable pace, and make sure you and your guests have a safe way home arranged well before the shaking starts and the pours add up over the course of the night.