I’ve been mixing rum and cranberry juice together for decades, and it’s not exactly an original idea. What shocks me is that no one had come up with a name for this tasty drink. So I did: the Yankee Pirate.

Rum is what pirates drink, right? And cranberry juice is a distinctly Massachusetts (Yankee) thing. So who would drink a mix of rum and cranberry juice? A Yankee Pirate!

The “long voyage” version is a slight modification you make when you plan to be offshore for many weeks or months. To make a Yankee Pirate (long voyage) you add a splash of lime juice — to prevent scurvy, not because it tastes good (although it does).

A basic recipe = 2 oz rum, 4 oz. cranberry juice. You might want to go a little lighter on the rum if you’re using 120 or 151 proof stuff, as I often do. And you might want to go all the way down to 1 oz. rum per 4 oz, of cranberry juice if you’re a delicate lady pirate.

Hairy-chested he-man pirates might go to a 1:1 ratio with 80 proof rum or 1:1.5 rum:cranberry with 120/151 rum.

I have an extremely hairy chest, so just to the left of my keyboard, right now, you’ll find a 1:1.5 mix of 120-proof Cruzan rum and store-brand cranberry juice.

Yum!

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