What is orgeat?
Orgeat: Almond syrup with orange-flower water or rose water. The secret of the Mai Tai.
- Category
- Syrup & mixer
- Taste
- Sweet marzipan, floral, a little creamy.
- Strength
- Non-alcoholic
- Similar to
- amaretto (with alcohol)
- Also called
- orgeat syrup
The story
The name comes from the French orge, "barley." It started as a barley and almond drink and later dropped the barley. Trader Vic put it in his Mai Tai in 1944, and it's been a tiki essential since.