This one comes from a collaboration with Jason Alexander of Devil's Reef in Tacoma — a bar that takes its Lovecraft as seriously as its rum. The idea is simple and a little wicked: bright, sun-ripened pineapple run through dark blackstrap molasses. Top notes from the beach, bottom notes from somewhere considerably deeper. Three ingredients: pineapple juice, cane sugar, blackstrap.

It powers the Devil Reef's signature pour — two ounces of dark rum, one ounce of this, and the elder gods eat last — and it's just as comfortable with whiskey as with rum, where the molasses reads almost like barrel char. In soda water it makes a no-proof drink with actual gravity to it. Not every syrup should be this dark. This one should.

Once opened, refrigerate and use within 90 days — unopened, it keeps for two years from the date of manufacture.