Post #337426 by The Gnomon on Tue, Oct 9, 2007 12:52 PM

If your concentrate requires 3 parts of water to 1 part concentrate to get it back to its juice proportions, I wouldn't dilute it at all and then use one-third sugar or less (myself). I think "authentic" grenadine is candy sweet, so that would call for 2:1 concentrate to sugar or 1:1.

As I said, I don't really use much grenadine anymore 'cause I prefer my pomegranate syrup, which I make at 4:1 to 3:1 since I have great rock candy syrup to use along with it. Same thing with orgeat. I keep mine less sweet 'cause I can always adjust the sweetness with the RC syrup.

But what if you don't have any RC syrup on hand. You have to rely on the grenadine to stand on its own merits. In that case, you might want it sweeter.

If after you're done it turns out you prefer it to be more diluted, you can add water out of sequence (if you're gonna dilute, it's better earlier on) and make note of the amount for future batches. You can't dilute first and then undilute later.

As for the sugar, I actually like turbinado (and other varieties) in my pomegranate syrup sometimes, but to maintain a more pure pomegranate flavor, I'd stick with varieties like evaporated cane (as you have indicated).