Mixer & Match With Cocktail & Sons

Cocktails Distilled

In the world of cocktails, it's usually the spirits and the liqueurs that tend to get all the love.

But as anyone who has made drinks knows, it's the syrups and mixes that are often the true stars of the show. But taking the flavour profile of your drinks up to the next level with a flavoured syrup is often more difficult than that sounds.

Going through the rigamarole of having to find the ingredients and ensure consistency means that it's simply easier to turn to a pre-made syrup.

One business that is sweetening the experience is Cocktails & Sons. Started by award-winning bartenders, and husband and wife duo, Max Messier, and Lauren Myerscough, the brand aims to bring simplicity to your bar.
To find out more, we talked to Lauren about flavours, simplifying syrups, and of course the drinks that you can make with them.

Bab

1. Mixer & Match With Cocktail & Sons (00:00:00)

2. Now take us back to 2014, when you guys started. Why do you think it was important to you to make a syrup and mixer range? (00:01:42)

3. Now, of course, post pandemic, there’ve been a lot of people who've gotten into making drinks at home, but back then, was there really a lot of interest in making drinks (00:02:44)

4. But then once you'd done farmer's markets for a little while you actually took your products to a Kickstarter campaign. Tell us a little bit about that. (00:03:55)

5. Aside from the regulatory aspect, ramping the recipes up from doing small batch into commercial must have been difficult? (00:05:57)

6. Now, as you mentioned, there are a lot of people who are doing mixes and syrups now, is it weird to see the market expand the way it has? (00:07:09)

7. I imagine though products like Fassionola would still be a bit it foreign to people. (00:08:56)

8. Now you have eight syrups and two mixers, which ones have proved to be the most popular. (00:10:21)

9. Your most recent offering is the king cake rum cream. What was it like working with Gambinos bakery? (00:13:52)

10. Now I imagine that the Mojito and the Margarita mixes are probably the easiest of your products for people to understand. Do you want to talk through the flavour profiles of each? (00:17:09)

11. Can you take us through a few of your favourite cocktails to make with your syrups? (00:19:55)

12. Have you been surprised by some of the cocktails that people have made with your syrups? (00:24:15)

13. Now it's not just alcoholic drinks that the syrups can be used in though. Is it? (00:25:27)

14. Other than people getting more into home cocktails. What other changes have you seen over the last eight years? (00:27:39)

15. Obviously the pandemic was difficult for everyone, but I imagine that you guys were actually quite busy during that period. (00:28:36)

16. I believe you are available in 10 states across the US (00:30:17)