Enlightenment Recipe

We love clever drinks like the enlightenment that swap in beer for club soda or sparkling wine its a refreshing way to get a bit of bubbly in and lighten up otherwise-heavy ingredients. This recipe, from mixologist aidan demarest, works with any light-flavored beer: lager, wheat beer, or even a mild ipa. Do not, under any circumstances, use anything but genuine pomegranate syrup for the grenadine here A corn-syrup-and-red-5 substitute like roses will be cloying and sickly-sweet. Real grenadine is a rich purple syrup of pomegranate juice, sugar, and occasionally lemon juice and a few other botanical flavors.