Liber & Co. Fiery Ginger Syrup

It's built on whole ginger root juiced fresh, so you get a real spicy burn balanced by pure cane sugar. The result is bright, full-flavored, and silky in texture.

Top it with club soda for a superior ginger beer, or pour it into a Dark n Stormy, Kentucky Mule, or anything that needs sweet ginger heat. It works in both classic and novel cocktails.

The ingredients are ginger juice, cane sugar, filtered water, gum arabic, citric acid, and benzoic acid. The 12.7 fl oz bottle holds about 19 half-ounce servings, at 43 calories each.

Liber & Co. is a Texas cocktail syrup maker started in 2011 by Chris Harrison and brothers Adam and Robert Higginbotham, who met as students at the University of Texas at Austin. They make their syrups in their own production facility in Central Texas — their site's about page describes a custom facility in Austin, TX, while their current listed address is 4045 Airport Rd. in Georgetown, TX, just north of Austin. The syrups themselves are non-alcoholic, so they work just as well in zero-proof drinks as in cocktails.