Daiquiri Daiquiri Daiquiri (; ) is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime juice), and sugar or other sweetener. The daiquiri is one of the six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks", which also lists some variations. "Daiquirí" is also the name of a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba, and is a word of Taíno origin. The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer, named Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba at the time of the Spanish–American War. It is also
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