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“My "house" drink is a riff on a bourbon sour w/ orgeat instead of regular simple. I had been buying an easily found on shelves ...”
Randall W.“I like the syrup but didn't like the tiki punch syrup”
Daniel M.“I have a mocktail recipe for kids that includes orgeat. I have tried making it with many different brands (expensive ones) found in some ...”
Elizabeth O.Most orgeat is milky white and one-note sweet — almond-flavored sugar water that floats on top of a Mai Tai instead of holding it together. BG Reynolds Orgeat is golden, and built a little rougher on purpose. The almonds go in skins-on, which lends a faint bitterness you'll never catch straight from the bottle but will absolutely notice in the glass, where it keeps the sweetness honest. And it's sweetened with brown sugar instead of plain cane — a thread of molasses that tones down the sharp edge of the almond and gives a funky Jamaican rum something to push against.
That's the whole point of it: an orgeat that makes the rum step off and sing, not one that buries it under marzipan. It's made for a proper Mai Tai with an aged-rum split, and just as at home in a Fog Cutter or an Eastern Sour. A half ounce is the going rate. Off the tiki menu, a bar spoon turns a tired Amaretto Sour into something worth a second round — and it does quietly excellent things to a cup of coffee.
Once opened, refrigerate and use within 90 days — unopened, it keeps for two years from the date of manufacture.
A syrup is an ingredient – not sparingly, not heavily. Right down the middle, where flavor lives.
Runs well with white rum, aged rum, gin, tequila – and any of its shelf-mates. Syrups conspire well together.
No liquor? No problem. Soda water, lemonade, iced coffee, a scoop of vanilla ice cream – this bottle does not judge.
Crowd on the way? Scale any recipe with the batch calculator
The bar book keeps a page open
Every legendary tiki recipe started as somebody's kitchen experiment. If you've built a pour worth bragging about, we want it – set in the double-line frame, printed in the official BG Reynolds bar book, your name on the credit line, shelved between the Mai Tai and the Jet Pilot where it belongs.
Got a pour that deserves the double-line frame? Send it in. Recipes we publish appear as official BG Reynolds bar book cards – with your name on the credit line.
Something spilled – please add a drink name, your credit line, an email, and at least one ingredient.
By submitting, you let us publish your recipe and credit line. Exact ounces appreciated. Drink responsibly.
Received – the bar book committee will give it a shake. If we print it, you get the credit.
Mixed, styled, and photographed by bartenders and friends of the bar, served up via Crafted Pour. House recipes from the BG Reynolds bar book live on our Cocktail Recipes page.