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Make · Syrups

Sweeteners Worth Making

The syrups that bottled brands can match for convenience but not for flavor. Orgeat is the headline—three to four hours of mostly waiting time, and every Mai Tai you make from it is meaningfully better. The list will grow.

A corked glass bottle of homemade orgeat syrup, milky almond-white, with scattered almonds on the dark teakwood bar of the Forbidden Altar
Practitioner Syrup

Homemade Orgeat

The most important syrup in exotic cocktails. Commercial orgeat is fine; homemade is transcendent. Blanched almonds (do not toast)…

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Homemade rich simple syrup—2:1 demerara sugar to water, the working sweetener for canonical exotic cocktails
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Homemade Rich Simple Syrup

Simple syrup at a 2:1 sugar-to-water ratio. Thicker, sweeter per volume, and required by name for the canonical Mai Tai and many o…

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Homemade cinnamon syrup—sugar dissolved into cinnamon-stick infused water, the prerequisite for Don’s Mix
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Homemade Cinnamon Syrup

Real cinnamon-stick syrup—water steeped with broken cinnamon sticks, strained, then dissolved with sugar at a 1:1 ratio. The requi…

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Homemade falernum syrup in a glass bottle, golden-amber with visible spice particles, beside fresh limes and broken cinnamon
Practitioner Syrup

Homemade Falernum

Lime peel, clove, almond, ginger, rum. The Caribbean-spice syrup that powers the Cobra’s Fang, the Test Pilot, the Three Dots and …

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