For a more vibrant red color in the cranberry layer, use unsweetened cranberry juice. Want a non-alcoholic version?

Let it boil for 5 minutes, then turn off and let it cool. Pour the warm syrup into a bowl and add the rum, stirring. Dip the babàs in the syrup, a little at a time. Turn them several times so ...

US group Next Century Spirits (NCS) has acquired Blue Chair Bay Rum to grow its presence in the “premium rum category”.

The Black Prince is a type of rum Manhattan—a particularly good one at that, deep, rich, fruity and dark—but I also think of it as perhaps the best liquid argument we have for Averna.