# Simple syrup

Sugar dissolved in water to make a smooth, easily measured cocktail sweetener.

Parent category: [Syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/syrup.md)

Alcohol: 0% ABV

## Types

- [Rich simple syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/rich-simple-syrup.md): 0% ABV. A concentrated simple syrup made with roughly twice as much sugar as water, providing sweetness with less dilution.

## Cocktails

- [151 Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/151-swizzle.md): Donn Beach's formidable swizzle, driving overproof Demerara rum through lime, sugar, aromatic bitters, and a cool thread of anise.
- [Absinthe Frappé](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/absinthe-frappe.md): A bracing New Orleans cooler that softens absinthe’s anise and herbs with mint, sugar, soda, and crushed ice.
- [Amaro Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/amaro-sour.md): Averna takes the lead over a small bourbon spine in Brad Thomas Parsons’s plush, egg-white sour, balancing dark citrus and caramel with fresh lemon.
- [Ancient Mariner](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ancient-mariner.md): Beachbum Berry's dark, dry reply to Navy Grog sets Jamaican and Demerara rums against grapefruit, lime, allspice, and restrained sugar.
- [Barbados Rum Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/barbados-rum-punch.md): The old Barbadian rhyme becomes a measured drink of lime, sugar, island rum, water, bitters, and nutmeg over crushed ice.
- [Bitter Intentions](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bitter-intentions.md): Bobby Heugel turns Campari into the base of a bracing Collins-Americano hybrid, with lemon, syrup, soda, and a fragrant sweet-vermouth float.
- [Bramble](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bramble.md): Dick Bradsell's London gin sour, lengthened over crushed ice and streaked with dark blackberry liqueur.
- [Brandy Crusta](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-crusta.md): A brandy sour with maraschino, curaçao, bitters, a sugar-crusted rim, and a long citrus peel.
- [Coffee Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/coffee-cocktail.md): Despite its name, this late-nineteenth-century flip contains no coffee: ruby Port, brandy, sugar, and a whole egg shake into a rich café-au-lait colour.
- [Copenhagen](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/copenhagen.md): Genever, dark cherry liqueur, lime, syrup, and Angostura form Gromit Eduardsen’s bready, jammy 2009 signature cocktail for Copenhagen.
- [Cynar Julep](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cynar-julep.md): This Buenos Aires modern classic makes Cynar the base of a cooling crushed-ice drink with mint, lemon, and bittersweet grapefruit soda.
- [East 8 Hold-Up](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/east-8-hold-up.md): Kevin Armstrong’s vivid London modern classic balances vodka with Aperol, pineapple, lime, passion fruit, and measured sweetness over ice.
- [Enzoni](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/enzoni.md): A bittersweet gin sour that folds muddled green grapes into the structure of a Negroni.
- [Espresso Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/espresso-martini.md): A bracing vodka cocktail shaken with fresh espresso, coffee liqueur, and a touch of sugar.
- [Fernet Cup No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fernet-cup-no-1.md): A bracing Fernet highball brightened with lime, sugar, and spicy ginger beer.
- [French 75](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/french-75.md): A sparkling gin sour lengthened with Champagne.
- [Gin Basil Smash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-basil-smash.md): Fresh basil is muddled through Jörg Meyer's bright 2008 gin sour, making vivid green aroma a structural ingredient.
- [Gin Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-fizz.md): A brisk gin and lemon highball lengthened with lively soda.
- [Gordon’s Breakfast](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gordons-breakfast.md): Gin, muddled lime and cucumber, sugar, Worcestershire, hot sauce, salt, and pepper make a vivid non-tomato savoury cocktail with breakfast-table nerve.
- [Green Beast](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/green-beast.md): Absinthe, lime, cucumber, sugar, and cold water make Charles Vexenat’s long green drink vivid and vegetal rather than merely anise-heavy.
- [Gunshop Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gunshop-fizz.md): Two full ounces of Peychaud’s turn strawberry, cucumber, citrus peel, lemon, syrup, and red bitter soda into a vivid, low-proof New Orleans original.
- [Improved Whiskey Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/improved-whiskey-cocktail.md): Rye is improved in the nineteenth-century sense with tiny measures of maraschino, sugar, absinthe, and bitters, preserving the whiskey's shape while connecting the Old Fashioned to the Sazerac.
- [Industry Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/industry-sour.md): Ted Kilgore's equal-parts modern classic turns Fernet-Branca and Green Chartreuse into a bracing, improbably balanced herbal sour.
- [Iron Ranger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/iron-ranger.md): Erick Castro's bourbon-led tropical drink, bringing pineapple and lemon into focus with falernum, sugar, spice, and serious whiskey weight.
- [John Collins](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/john-collins.md): A cooling gin, lemon, and soda highball with gentle sweetness and plenty of ice.
- [Jägerita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/jagerita.md): David Cordoba’s modern classic treats Jägermeister as a serious amaro base, meeting lime and dry orange liqueur in a startlingly coherent Margarita shape.
- [King's Cobbler](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/kings-cobbler.md): Neal Bodenheimer’s smoky rhubarb-amaro cobbler folds fresh strawberry and lemon through crushed ice for a dark, bittersweet answer to the wine-based original.
- [London Calling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/london-calling.md): Fino sherry draws a saline, almond-dry line through this bright gin sour, with orange bitters and grapefruit peel extending its citrus without adding sweetness.
- [Love & Murder](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/love-and-murder.md): Equal Campari, green alpine liqueur, and lime form an audacious bitter sour, with syrup and four saline drops making the apparent collision cohere.
- [Macunaíma](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/macunaima.md): Cachaça, lime, syrup, and a precise Fernet-Branca measure make this São Paulo modern classic bright, grassy, and darkly bitter at the finish.
- [Midnight Stinger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/midnight-stinger.md): Bourbon and Fernet-Branca meet as equals in a lemon sour over crushed ice, turning the amaro's menthol force into something bracing, cooling, and unexpectedly easy to drink.
- [Mojito](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mojito.md): Cuba's defining mint highball keeps white rum, lime, sugar, soda, and whole fresh leaves in a cold, fragrant, sparkling balance.
- [New York Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/new-york-sour.md): A dry red-wine float adds fruit, tannin, and a vivid aromatic layer to an 1880s rye sour without hiding the contrast beneath egg-white foam.
- [Old Cuban](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/old-cuban.md): An aged-rum Daiquiri lengthened with sparkling wine and perfumed with mint and aromatic bitters.
- [Pisco Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pisco-sour.md): An aromatic grape-spirit sour balancing lemon and sugar beneath a silky egg-white foam seasoned with bitters.
- [Queen’s Park Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-swizzle.md): A high-octane Trinidadian swizzle that drives dark Demerara rum through fragrant mint, lime, sugar, and aromatic bitters.
- [Ramos Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ramos-fizz.md): An airy gin fizz enriched with cream, citrus, egg white, and floral notes.
- [Russian Spring Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/russian-spring-punch.md): Cassis and lemon give vodka a vivid blackcurrant-sour core before dry sparkling wine stretches it into a cold, dangerous party drink.
- [Sherry Flip](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sherry-flip.md): Oxidatively aged sherry, a whole egg, and restrained sugar become a silky low-proof drink, with fresh nutmeg supplying the final aromatic layer.
- [Siesta](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/siesta.md): A bright tequila sour balancing fresh grapefruit and lime with a measured dose of Campari.
- [Sloe Gin Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sloe-gin-fizz.md): A luminous ruby fizz that sharpens sweet-tart British sloe gin with fresh lemon and cold soda, leaving its fruit, kernel, and juniper character clear.
- [Southside](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/southside.md): A clean gin sour made vivid and cooling with fresh lime and mint.
- [Too Soon?](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/too-soon.md): A regal shake with thin orange slices gives this gin-and-Cynar sour fragrant peel oils and soft fruit depth without muddling bitterness into the drink.
- [Toronto](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/toronto.md): A rye Old Fashioned sharpened by the bracing herbal bitterness of Fernet-Branca.
- [Whiskey Smash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/whiskey-smash.md): Muddled lemon flesh and peel make this bourbon-and-mint cooler more pulpy and aromatic than either a Whiskey Sour or a Mint Julep.
- [Whiskey Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/whiskey-sour.md): Bourbon, lemon, and sugar with optional egg white for a soft, foamy texture.
- [Wibble](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/wibble.md): Dry gin and sloe gin share the base of a brisk grapefruit sour, while tiny measures of blackberry liqueur and sugar deepen the hedgerow fruit without turning it jammy.

## References

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