Sugar & Lemon Juice

[southern girl]

Personally, I hate to be served a cocktail made with one of those pre-made sweet and sour mixes (for both the flavor and apppearance factors). When I tended bar in college, we made our own sugar syrup and used lemon or lime juice. What are your feelings on this subject?

[Kingcocktail]

Hi Southern Girl,

Let me start by quoting from an earlier reply to a question…

“but my ambition is inspire a widespread return to fresh fruit and fresh ingredient cocktails, then I will turn to the exotics. I am pleased to see an operation return to fresh lemon and lime juice and sorry that so few have, especially some of our first class hotels and hotel chains that prior to prohibition were the home of the classic American Iced cocktail. The fact that I cannot get a fresh soul drink in the King Cole Bar of the St Regis o the beautiful bar at the Marriott Marquis is shocking.”

I haven’t worked in a bar with commercial sour mix or a soda gun in 15 years …

Here is to the return of the classic bar service of the golden age…

Dale