Cranberry Cocktails

Cranberry is the driest of the common juice mixers, tart rather than sweet, which is why it works in long drinks that would be sickly with orange or pineapple. It also gives a drink its colour at almost any dilution.

Read the bottle. Cranberry juice cocktail is heavily sweetened and is what most recipes assume; pure cranberry juice is close to undrinkable on its own and will make a Cosmopolitan taste sour and thin if swapped in without adjusting.

It pairs with citrus vodka and lime almost automatically, which is the entire Cosmopolitan and most of the Cape Codder family.