Original Orgeat Cocktail Syrup

At BG Reynolds, we specialize in the tiki cocktail. Some of those can be obscure: your Cobra's Fangs, Jet Pilots, Pi-Yis, and whatnot. But if there's one cocktail that pushed its way through from secretive notebooks and into the mainstream, it's the Mai Tai. And what makes a Mai Tai? Well, some combination of aged rums (a much discussed and highly objective subject), a good Orange Curaçao, lime juice, and the critical ingredient, Orgeat. What is Orgeat? First, let me ensure we're on the same page with the history and pronunciation. It's the French word for barley, used to make barley milk a nutrition-rich drink and often flavored with almonds. Eventually, someone decided to skip the barley and enjoy a simple, rich, sweetened almond milk, but it kept that name, Orgeat. So, how do you pronounce Orgeat? OAR… yes, like the thing you'd row a boat with, and then ZSA, like biting down on a J and letting it go. OAR ZSA. Not OR GEET, OR GIT, or OR JEET. At BG Reynolds, we've taken a unique and