Handcrafted cocktail syrups from Los Angeles bartender Ken Arbuckle. St. Vincent Syrups provides several advantages for both professional and home bartenders:
1. Consistency: The flavor profile provided by using St. Vincent Syrups is always the same, allowing your bar to create consistent cocktails without variations based on fruit ripeness.
2. Speed: Using syrups allows for greater speed of service, by eliminating the need for muddling and straining out solids/seeds. It also allows the bartender to batch cocktails for large format service, or to reduce pour times during regular service.
3. Flavor: The use of an ingredient like orgeat is a great way to get a flavor profile on a cocktail that is not achievable any other way. Muddling almonds doesn't really work.
4. Price: With all ingredient and production costs considered, these advantages come with the added benefit of a lowered pour cost vs. in-house production.
Available Products & Tasting Notes
Orgeat
Whole pressed California almonds, bright almond flavor, preserved only with lemons.
Pineapple Gomme
Whole crushed pineapples and cane sugar, given texture by gum arabic.
Raspberry Gomme
Fresh whole raspberries and cane sugar, given texture by gum arabic.
Tamarind
Tangy and rich, made from fresh tamarind and cane sugar.
Photos
1 Bar manager Kenny Arbuckle behind the Cassia bar; Credit: Natalie B. Compton, LA Weekly
2 The full range of St. Vincent Syrups