Lyre’s Dark Cane
Lyre’s Dark Cane
A distinctly dark non-alcoholic rum. Despite the pirating parate on the bottle, Lyre's Dark Cane is elegant and sophisticated. Toasted caramel, maple, orange, and vanilla on the nose. Notes of fudge, fig, and toasted spices. Smooth maple and vanilla finish.
A classically crafted non-alcoholic dark rum by Lyre's. A true 1:1 replacement for the original.
Taste
Sugarcane
How to Enjoy
We love a Cuba Libre! Mix Lyre’s Dark Cane Spirit with cola and lime juice over ice and garnish with a lime wedge.
It's a dark rum alternative with toasted caramel, maple, orange, and vanilla on the nose, then notes of fudge, fig, and toasted spices. The finish is smooth maple and vanilla with a sugarcane character.
A Cuba Libre is our favorite: mix Lyre's Dark Cane with cola and lime juice over ice, then garnish with a lime wedge. It's built as a 1:1 swap for dark rum, so it works in your usual rum recipes too.
Each 700 ml bottle holds about 23 one-ounce servings at 5 calories per serving. Ingredients are water, sugar, glucose syrup, natural flavor, citric acid, ascorbic acid, potassium sorbate, and cellulose gum.
Lyre's is a non-alcoholic spirits company founded in 2019 by Australian entrepreneurs Mark Livings and Carl Hartmann. The brand was founded in Sydney, Australia, and its name is a nod to the lyrebird, an Australian bird known for mimicking sounds — a fitting reference for spirits made to echo the classics. Today Lyre's sells in more than 60 countries and runs offices in cities including London, Sydney, New York, Singapore, Amsterdam and Shanghai.
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