Lorraine Allen's rum punch had always been a hit at family parties, so she decided she wanted to share the drink with more people.
When she grew up in Toxteth, Lorraine, 68, spent a lot of time in Jamaica - the country of her dad's birth. When coming back from a family holiday, they would fill suitcases with bottles of punch to bring back to Liverpool.
This developed into making the drink, using empty alcohol bottles to store her concoctions. Wanting to share the drink with more people, she decided to start selling her artisan punch.
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The popularity of it led her to open Mo'Bay Shack, her Jamaican venue on Smithdown Road, which sells the drink alongside Jamaican food. In a break from a busy afternoon service, Lorraine spoke to the ECHO about the restaurant's journey.
She said: "I'm Jamaican on my dad's side - he's from Jamaica. My husband is from Montego Bay in Jamaica, so that's where the Mo'Bay Shack name is from.
"Growing up, when we used to go over to Jamaica as a family we would always come back with rum punch in the suitcase.
"And then we used to have parties, we always made rum punch and that was our main drink. We'd make it and store it in old vodka or brandy bottles."
Lorraine began selling the drink at food markets online. The success of that led her to setting up shop on Smithdown Road.
She explained: "We'd had the idea for a while but by the time we got everything sorted with setting it up as a company was December 2019. Then in March 2020 we had lockdown.
"We'd done a few Christmas markets in the December and a few bits up to the lockdown. Then in
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