Ingredient
Honey Syrup
Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous.
Substitutes
- Agave Nectar— Honey syrup is sweet like agave nectar and can be used interchangeably in many cocktails.
- Vanilla Syrup— Sweetness matches well, retains similar syrupy texture, but honey has a different flavor.
- Maple Syrup— Honey syrup is sweet and can replicate the sweetness in cocktails similarly to maple syrup.
- Simple Syrup— very similar in sweetness; interchangeable in most sweet applications.