On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 11:33:25 PM UTC-7, gtr wrote:
> On 2015-10-16 19:25:35 +0000, ImStillMags said:
>
> > OI'm in the process of learning to make my own tonic syrup. I'm
> > getting ingredients this weekend. Have you made any of the coctail
> > syrups?
>
> No experience at all. I think the science that's going into the
> bitters and such that are being experimented with is vastly beyond the
> scope of the simple infusions I'm doing.
>
> I was fiddling with (commercial) bitters of all kinds a few years back.
> Went to the biggest and most well stocked store in the area (Costa
> Mesa, Hi-Time Liquor). They had 10-12 of them. Flash forward 8 years
> or so, and they have 3 shelves of them, probably over 40.
>
> It's booming.
>
> When you say "cocktail syrups", you mean something you add to liquor
> and soda and make something fun and entertaining?

Yes, bars today are making their own syrups, tonics, and bitters and you can customize to your own imagination. There are a lot of ideas out there. I googled around and put together my own cobbled up recipe for the tonic syrup I'm going to make. I have a soda stream and using that and making my own syrup saves a ton of money plus it's fun to do.