Christmas is in the air | Sorrel

If there is one beverage present in every Jamaican home over Christmas and New Year’s it is “Sorrel.” In fact, it is pointed to say that it isn’t Christmas until sorrel drinks start brewing and poring aplenty in every Jamaican home. This is a defining part of our experience of the Christmas season. Sorrel is to a Jamaican Christmas what snow is to a temperate Christmas. This “Jamaican sorrel is not to be confused with the herb called sorrel. In Jamaica, and to Jamaicans all over the world, sorrel is one thing and one thing only- hibiscus. It is the same flower that is called “Agua de Jamaica in Latin America and other parts of the Americas. The drink is so popular to Jamaicans that is it known by that name.