SMALL HAND FOODS

Small Hand Foods, the first craft cocktail syrup company, was created in 2008 by Jennifer Colliau. While tending bar at The Slanted Door in San Francisco, she wanted to make a traditional Mai Tai with Orgeat made from real almonds, the way it was done before Prohibition. After months of development, she had a delicious Orgeat recipe that was the closest possible to how it was made in the 1800s. She added Gum Syrup, Pineapple Gum, Raspberry Gum and Grenadine shortly afterward and began offering these syrups to bars and restaurants nationwide. Small Hand Foods syrups are cooked the way cocktail syrups were made in the 1800s: no high-fructose corn syrup, preservatives, or anything artificial.