Homemade ginger simple syrup has sweet and spicy notes and a strong ginger flavor. It’s a delicious way to sweeten non-alcoholic drinks, classic cocktails, tea, and more!

Looking for more ginger recipes? Try my green apple mocktail with lemon ginger syrup, honey ginger dressing, or lemon ginger shots.

What You’ll Love About This Recipe

Simple ingredients – This sweet and spicy ginger syrup is made with only a couple of ingredients you likely have on hand.
Nothing artificial – The delicious ginger flavor comes from real sliced ginger.
Versatile – Use it to sweeten your favorite drinks, salad dressings, or desserts.

Ingredients

Here’s what I used to make this homemade ginger syrup recipe:

Organic cane sugar – this is my favorite type of sweetener to use. It isn’t sickly sweet and dissolves well, but you could also use white granulated sugar. I wouldn’t recommend using raw sugar as the granules are too coarse and don’t dissolve as easily.
Water – to dissolve the sugar.
Fresh ginger root

How to Make Ginger Simple Syrup: Step By Step

Here are some quick visual instructions. The full instructions and ingredient list will be in the printable recipe card below!

Dissolve sugar. Heat the water and sugar in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, and stir until the sugar dissolves.
Simmer. Reduce the heat to a simmer, add the fresh ginger pieces, and simmer for 15 minutes while stirring occasionally. Transfer the infused simple syrup with ginger to a blender.
Blend. Blend until completely smooth then pour the syrup through a fine-mesh strainer into a bowl. Let cool to room temperature then chill in the fridge before using.

Helpful Tips

Blending the ginger slices with the syrup gives it a more intense ginger flavor.
For a less spicy flavor, either reduce the amount of ginger or increase the amount of sugar to 1 cup total.
This syrup isn’t as sweet as simple syrups with a 1:1 sugar-to-water ratio, so you may need to use a bit more in drinks depending on personal preference.
Using a dark sweetener such as maple syrup, brown sugar, or coconut sugar will alter the color of the syrup.
Use a larger fine mesh strainer if you can. There’s a lot of ginger pulp and it makes it a lot easier than using a small one. I used this size.

Quick Tip: Make the ginger simple syrup ahead so it has time to chill before using.

Storage

Fridge: Store in an airtight container or mason jar in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.

Freezer: To make it last longer, pour the syrup into silicone ice cube trays. Once frozen, pop them into a freezer-safe bag where they’ll last for up to 6 months.

Make It Your Way: Substitutions & Variations

Please remember that recipes are just a starting point.

How can you make this homemade ginger simple syrup recipe using what you already have? Here are some ideas…

No organic cane sugar? – use white sugar instead.
Use a liquid sweetener – such as honey.
Add-ins – vanilla bean.

How to Use

Use ginger simple syrup to sweeten either iced tea or hot tea or intensify the flavor of ginger tea.

Make homemade ginger ale or ginger beer by adding to to ice cubes, and club soda or soda water or with the addition of fresh lime juice to make it a spicy moscow mule mocktail or cocktail.

Or use it to make my festive sparkling cranberry mocktail with ginger and orange.

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