Spiced Rum

The reference point is Jamaican spiced rum, so expect cinnamon and clove layered over sugar cane sweetness, with a blended spice character that carries into a fairly strong finishing heat. ArKay builds it the way it builds everything else: spring water, natural flavors, and a proprietary warming compound that acts on the thermoreceptors in your mouth and throat, which is what separates it from a spiced syrup. Nothing is fermented or distilled, so a pour lands at zero sugar, zero carbs and zero calories. Swap it one for one wherever spiced rum goes. It holds up in a Long Island Iced Tea or a daiquiri, and it works lengthened with cola, ginger ale or iced tea. The company has been at this since 2011, when founder Reynald Grattagliano put the first alcohol free spirit alternative on shelves and was mostly laughed at for it.