Cocktails with Brown sugar syrup
Brown sugar syrup is a liquid sweetener made by dissolving demerara sugar in water, most often in a rich ratio for a heavier body.
Taste profile
Sweet with a mild caramel and molasses note, and a fuller, heavier body than a plain sugar syrup.
How it's used
Stirred or shaken into the build as an accent sweetener, it adds both sweetness and body; because the rich ratio makes it more viscous than 1:1 simple syrup, an equal volume delivers more sweetness, so it is dosed sparingly and not swapped one-for-one against plain simple syrup.
Substitutes for Brown sugar syrup
Another molasses-tinted cane-sugar syrup built at a rich ratio covers its sweetening, added body, light-brown colour and caramel note; a plain white-sugar syrup matches the sweetness only if a little molasses is added and the ratio raised to rebuild body and colour.
Often confused with
Muscovado syrup
Demerara sugar is a partially refined, large-crystal, pale-brown cane sugar with modest residual molasses; muscovado is an unrefined, fine, dark, moist cane sugar with much higher molasses content, yielding a darker, more strongly molasses-flavoured syrup.
