Why is syrup added to alcoholic cocktails? The answer is simple - to create a refined taste and exquisite color. There are a lot of varieties of such cocktails, but all of them are united by one common ingredient - sweet syrup.
Sugar syrup for cocktails
Syrup is a concentrate, the main component of which is sugar. The remaining ingredients play an auxiliary, taste-enhancing role. It can be juice, nectar, extract or flavoring. If we are talking about good syrup, then the additional components will be natural. However, manufacturers often save on quality and add synthetic additives. But to distinguish a natural product from a synthetic one is very simple - you need to look at the color. Natural syrups will not have a bright saturated color. Sugar syrup is part of the Daiquiri cocktail, the recipe of which you will find in this article.
How to choose a syrup
When choosing a ready-made syrup, you should pay attention to the following characteristics:
- How viscous is the syrup. A thick composition is suitable for preparing a layered cocktail, liquid will not bring the desired result.
- The sweetness and richness of taste affect the amount of syrup needed to make a drink.
- The color of the original cocktail will also depend on the color intensity.
- Check for contact with milk. There are syrups that provoke coagulation of milk.
Bar syrup recipes
Especially for you, we have selected several interesting and fragrant sugar syrups for cocktails, the recipes of which are used in bars. Please note that the instructions for all options are the same. The only difference is that the syrup will need to be cooked longer or less (depends on the desired density).
- We will prepare classic sugar syrup from 0.6 kg of granulated sugar and 400 g of water. Just dissolve sugar in warm water and cook for no more than 10 minutes. Remember to periodically clean the foam. Vanilla syrup is made in the same way . Only at the end of the process, add vanilla extract (20 ml) to the cooled mass.
- To make raspberry sugar syrup for cocktails, we need 1000 ml of classic sugar syrup and 1 kg of fresh raspberry. Squeeze juice from berries, strain and mix with syrup. We put on the stove, wait for boiling and cook for another 5 minutes over low heat. To make cherry syrup, replace the berry and follow the instructions. In a similar way, strawberry syrup is prepared . But in the cooled syrup, pour 20 ml of lemon juice.
- For peppermint syrup, you need 60 g of dry peppermint leaves, which must be poured with 500 ml of boiling water. Let it brew in a closed container for 60 minutes. Then strain, add 700 g of sugar and cook on minimum heat for 12 minutes.
- The longest cooking time is lemon syrup. In 1 liter of sugar syrup, you need to add lemon zest (from 300 g) and boil the mass. All this must be insisted 2 days. Then we filter and dilute with the juice of lemons from which the zest was taken. According to the same recipe - sugar syrup for orange cocktails. The only difference is that we add 10 g of citric acid to the finished raw materials.
- An unusual recipe for mountain ash syrup with pulp. Half a rowan should be boiled in boiling water for about 8 minutes. Then rub the berries through a sieve, add 700 g of granulated sugar and half a liter of water. Bring to a boil and the syrup is ready.
- We will prepare walnut syrup not on water, but on coffee. It needs to be taken 600 ml. Fry walnuts (400 g), then chop, add to hot coffee syrup, stir and leave for an hour.
- Ground clove syrup. 10 g of stars pour 100 ml of hot water and boil for 6-8 minutes. Then filter and combine with 400 ml of sugar syrup.
Making cocktails
There are many different alcoholic cocktails, which are based on sugar syrup for cocktails. Among them: “Long Island”, “Tom Collins”, “Cosmopolitan”, “Margarita”, “Daiquiri”, “B-52”, “Medusa”. These are not all cocktails with syrup, but we have selected for you the top most popular in the world.
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The composition of the Daiquiri cocktail includes simple ingredients. Its preparation does not take much time, and the taste will definitely be remembered for a long time.
Place a few ice cubes in a shaker, add 60 ml of white rum, 15 ml of sugar syrup and one lime juice.
Pour all this through a stainer into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a slice of lime. You can serve.
Bright and tasty sugar syrups that bartenders add to alcoholic cocktails can be prepared at home. We hope this article has been helpful and now you know how to make sugar syrup for cocktails. You can please your guests with an interesting cocktail, which in taste and appearance will not be inferior to a bar.