Glass Bottom Boat

A yellow citrus fruit. The peel is often used as a garnish while the juice incorporated into the drink for a tart flavor profile (citric acid).

A tropical plant with a tart yellow fruit. Most often used in tiki cocktails and fizzes.

In cocktails, cherries are sweetened in a brine, like maraschino cherries (marr-ə-SKEE-noh) or in brandy, like brandied cherries. They are usually used as a garnish, muddled into the cocktail, or used simple for their sweetened brine.

A granulated sucrose product (1/2 glucose to 1/2 fructose) made from molasses. What makes mom's chocolate chip cookies taste so dang good (and butter) (and love).

A sub-set of dark, molasses-driven rums. These rums are very dark in color from added refined sugar (molasses), multiple distillation, and likely, but not always, aging in charred oak. There is no formal definition of black rum, if a recipe calls for this type of rum, it is usually refering to a very very darkly colored rum; a common example is Gosling's Black Seal. Pair it with lemon, lime, ginger and pineapple.

A traditionally Belgium beer style dating back to the 1700s, where the beer is openly fermented to allows for the accumulation of natural wild yeast instead of the addition of brewers yeast. Modern sour beers do not necessarily follow this fermentation style. However, for our purposes, a beer with a predominately sour taste falls into this category, including kriek and other fruit sours.

A tropical plant with a tart yellow fruit. Most often used in tiki cocktails and fizzes.

In cocktails, cherries are sweetened in a brine, like maraschino cherries (marr-ə-SKEE-noh) or in brandy, like brandied cherries. They are usually used as a garnish, muddled into the cocktail, or used simple for their sweetened brine.