Rum part of this blending process, light rums may be filtered to remove any colour gained during ageing. For darker rums, caramel may be added to adjust the colour of the final product. Artificial ageing attempts to match the molecular composition of aged rum using heat and light. Besides rum punches, cocktails such as the Cuba libre and daiquiri have well-known stories of their invention in the Caribbean. Tiki culture in the U.S. helped expand rum's horizons with inventions such as the mai tai and zombie. Other well-known cocktails containing rum include the piña colada, a drink made popular in America
Performance and Cocktails a pleasant throatiness to it that adds emotion to even the simplest lyric." Brent DiCrescenzo from "Pitchfork Media" had a generally negative review of the album, comparing Stereophonics to Oasis and by summarising the album as, "Basically, what "Performance and Cocktails" boils down to is loud music engineered and crafted for Britain's summer festival circuit that practically guarantees a perennially muddy experience." Similarly, Barry Walters of "Rolling Stone" also compared the band to Oasis, stating, "[they] sound like Oasis trying to be Radiohead." "Performance and Cocktails" gave Stereophonics three straight top five singles in the British charts with "The Bartender