Don Papa Masskara
Don Papa's most festive bottle. Column-still rum flavored with calamansi, a small Filipino citrus fruit, honey and a touch of Siling Labuyo, the Filipino chili pepper. Fruity, sweet and just a little spicy: made for refreshing cocktails and ginger beer.
A festival in a bottle
Masskara is inspired by the Masskara Festival in the Philippines, a colorful celebration full of masks. Its base is Don Papa rum made from molasses, distilled in column stills and flavored with three Filipino ingredients: calamansi, a small, sour Filipino citrus fruit; Filipino honey; and Siling Labuyo, a small, hot chili pepper.
That makes Masskara a very different drink from 7 Years or Baroko. While those revolve around vanilla and oak, fruit takes center stage here. The honey and vanilla provide sweetness, the calamansi freshness and the chili a warm tingle at the end. It can be enjoyed neat, but it's truly at its best with ice, lime and something fizzy.
In brief
Honey, citrus and a warm tingle
Citrus and honey
Fresh calamansi citrus, with sweet honey and vanilla underneath.
Fruity and sweet
Juicy and fruity, with honey and vanilla. The rum itself is smooth and stays in the background.
Slightly spicy
The chili pepper comes through briefly in the finish: a gentle warmth, not a burn. Then the honey lingers.
Don Papa Masskara's flavor profile over ice. In a cocktail with lime, the chili stands out more.
How to drink Masskara
Masskara calls for ice, lime and bubbles. Its fruitiness and light spice make it a summer rum.
Masskara Mule
50 ml Don Papa Masskara, 15 ml lime juice and 120 ml ginger beer in a copper mug filled with ice. The ginger and chili enhance each other.
Go to the Dark 'n Stormy →With ginger ale
50 ml Masskara with 150 ml ginger ale in a highball glass filled with ice, with a lime wedge. Softer than with ginger beer, and the calamansi comes through better.
Highball glasses →Masskara Daiquiri
50 ml Masskara, 25 ml lime juice and 10 ml sugar syrup, shaken hard with ice and strained into a chilled coupe. Less syrup than usual, because the honey is already in it.
Go to the recipe →Refreshing rum cocktails for Masskara
Choose cocktails with lime, ginger or mint. They complement Masskara's citrus and spice.
Dark 'n Stormy
Rum, ginger beer and lime. Masskara gives it a fruity, spicy twist.
Daiquiri
Rum, lime and sugar, shaken. The simplest way to taste the calamansi.
Mojito
Rum, mint, lime, sugar and sparkling water. Refreshing with a honey-sweet undertone.
Jungle Bird
Rum, Campari, pineapple and lime. Bitter, fruity and tropical.The right glass for Don Papa Masskara
A copper mug for the mule, a highball glass for the Mojito and ginger ale, a coupe for the Daiquiri and a tumbler for the Jungle Bird.
More Don Papa flavors
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Where it all began. The brand page tells you everything about Don Papa: origin, varieties and classic cocktails.
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Don Papa Baroko
A little drier and spicier than 7 Years, with orange peel and dried fruit. The Don Papa for cocktails.
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Don Papa Gayuma
Three casks in succession: vanilla, red fruit and a hint of smoke. A rum to sip neat.
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Questions about Don Papa Masskara
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