Category: Ingredients

  • Ingredient – Orgeat

    As you read the recipe for the Mai Tai you may have been tripped up by one of the ingredients, Orgeat. Orgeat is a sweet syrup made from almonds and much like Grenadine is really easy to make at home. You’ll find as you explore the Tiki arts that lots of recipes will use Orgeat…

  • Ingredient – Maraschino Cherries

    The garnish of choice for a Manhattan is a Maraschino cherry.  That word probably brings images of bright red, extremely sweet fruits floating up in your consciousness.  But, like many things in the cocktail world, it hasn’t always been that way.  Maraschino (pronounced Mara-skee-no) cherries were originally produced by macerating Marasca in Maraschino liqueur.  Introduced…

  • Ingredient – Bitters

    One of the best explanations I’ve heard is that bitters are like spices for cocktails.  You would never cook certain dishes without spices and the same is true of some cocktails and their bitters.  Old timers only considered drinks with bitters to be true cocktails.  The quote on our Mission page sums it up nicely. …

  • Ingredient – Grenadine

    As I mentioned in this week’s intro post, the Grenadine you find in most grocery stores is actually just citric acid flavored sugar water.  We here at Cocktail Hacker hope to resolve that problem right now.  Grenadine can be made at home quite simply and quickly.  Plus, you get the added bonus that the homemade…

  • Strawberry Classic Daiquiri

    So as I was writing our kick off post for The Daiquiri and later the post on simple syrup I got to thinking.  Although The Strawberry Daiquiri is not truely classic it is quite tasty at times.  There must be some way to combine the classic feel of The Daiquiri with the wonderful flavor of…