How to make the 8 Most Essential Cocktail Syrups

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Today we'll take on the 8 Most Essential syrups for Tropical and Tiki cocktails according to the recipes found in Beachbum Remixed, Sippin Safari, Smuggler's Cove, Tropical Standard and Minimalist Tiki. We'll make orgeat syrup, passion fruit syrup, cinnamon syrup, honey syrup, ginger syrup, maple syrup, vanilla syrup, and grenadine. The recipes I am sharing are not the exact recipes called out in those books, but generalized recipes that will give you the broadest range to use in the most amount of cocktails. These are the exact syrups that I use.

Recipes and ingredients used are at the bottom of this description

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Episode Chapters
00:00 Why these 8?
02:33 Getting ratioed
03:23 This is the weight
03:58 Need a certain volume?
05:05 1. Orgeat Syrup
06:18 2. Passion Fruit Syrup
07:11 All About Brix
08:44 3. Cinnamon Syrup
10:07 4. Honey Syrup or Honey Mix
13:05 5. Ginger Syrup
14:00 6. Maple Syrup
14:15 7. Vanilla Syrup
15:40 8. Grenadine
18:06 How long do they last? How to store them?

Orgeat Syrup - 66 Brix
I like to use Joi Almond Milk Concentrate over raw almond and I also prefer this almond milk concentrate to using almond butter. More About 60 Second Orgeat:    • The EASIEST way to make Orgeat - revi...  
Recipe:
2 tbsp Joi Almond Milk Concentrate
200 grams water
400 grams sugar
1 ½ tsp almond extract
1 ½ tsp rose water
1 ½ tsp orange blossom water

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Passion Fruit Syrup - 50 Brix
Recipe:
Any amount of Passion Fruit will work. Weight your passion fruit and then multiply by 0.87. That’s how much sugar you add. If using a full bag of Pitaya Passion Fruit pieces:
340 grams Piaya Passion Fruit Pieces
296 grams sugar

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Cinnamon Syrup - 66 Brix
Recipe:
200 grams water
400 grams of cane sugar
18 grams of cinnamon

Ingredients Used
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Honey Syrup - 50 Brix
Recipe:
100 grams of honey
56 grams water
*This may result in a honey syrup that is not 50 Brix. It depends on your honey starting Brix

Ginger Syrup - 50 Brix
Recipe:
100 grams of a 2:1 Simple Syrup
1 oz ginger juice
Ginger Syrup Video:    • How to quickly and easily make GINGER...  

Maple Syrup- 66-68 Brix
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Vanilla Syrup - 66 Brix
Recipe:
200 grams water
400 grams sugar
2 vanilla beans
1 tsp vanilla paste
1 tsp vanilla extract

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Grenadine - 50 Brix
Recipe:
250 grams fresh pomegranate juice
162 grams white sugar
1 gram citric acid
2 orange twists expressed into syrup