Homemade Rich Simple Syrup

Name: Homemade Rich Simple Syrup
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Tiki
Ingredients: 2 cups white sugar; 1 cup water

sweet neutral

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 other classic exotic-cocktail builds. Twenty minutes start to bottle.

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

Servings

Ingredients

2 cups white sugar
1 cup water

Directions

Combine the sugar and water in a small saucepan over low heat.

Stir gently until the sugar fully dissolves and the syrup is clear. Don’t let it boil.

Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.

Bottle and refrigerate. Keeps a month or more refrigerated.

See Rich Simple Syrup for the full context—why the ratio matters, which recipes specify it, and how it differs from standard 1:1 simple.