Cordial Craft | San Diego, California
Cordial Craft makes bartender-built ingredients that combine the lime and sweetening steps in many cocktails, leaving you to choose the spirit and finish the drink.
Our flagship Zero-Sugar Lime Cordial replaces lime juice and simple syrup in one measured pour, bringing lime flavor, acidity, sweetness, and body together with zero sugar.
Made in the spirit of a good bar: care for the drink and for the people sharing it. Cordial Craft began in San Diego and brings that approach to home kitchens, bars, hotels, and gatherings through its cocktail cordials.
When Austin and Maia moved to a new city together, he wanted to bring one of her favorite flavors from home with them. That personal idea became a larger question behind the bar: how could a thoughtfully built ingredient make better cocktails easier to repeat?
Austin Davis founded Cordial Craft in San Diego after years behind the bar. He leads the brand's formulation work through measurement, testing and evaluation in real cocktails.
That first creation was not the lime cordial sold today. It opened the door to exploring other fruits and citrus, with each version refined in real cocktails. The question stayed the same: how do the flavor, aroma, and texture come together in the glass?
What began as a way to carry something Maia loved into a new city became the first proof that a more considered ingredient could make a drink feel both special and approachable.
Austin's background in chemistry and mixology shaped the process through proportion, testing, refinement, and real cocktail use.
The goal is not to lower the standard. It is to lower the barrier, giving more people a practical way to make balanced cocktails with confidence.
A good cocktail gives people something to notice: the first aroma, the shape of the glass, a flavor they want someone else to try. Those little moments belong as much at a kitchen table as they do at a favorite bar.
The care is in the drink, but the point is the people around it. Cordial Craft makes the preparation simpler, so there is more time to serve, share, and enjoy the gathering. Find a drink to make for yours in our recipe collection.
Built with care. Refined with intention. Made for better cocktails.
A drink is not balanced just because it is less sweet. Lime aroma, acidity, and texture still need to feel right beside the spirit. That is the work Cordial Craft brings into the bottle, leaving ice, dilution, and the final finish in your hands.
There is more to lime than sourness. Its aroma and rounded citrus flavor deserve a place in the finished drink, too.
Lime flavor, acidity, sweetness, and body arrive in one pour. You can spend less time assembling the base and more time making the cocktail.
Choose the spirit, chill and dilute the drink, then taste. A measured starting point leaves room for the recipe and the person making it.
Early flavor trials became small batches, then production bottles. At each stage, the work came back to taste, balance, and how the cordial performed in a finished cocktail.
Cordial Craft Zero-Sugar Lime Cordial brings lime, sweetness, and body into one pour. Use it in place of lime juice and simple syrup in many margaritas, gimlets, daiquiris, and highballs, then follow the complete recipe for the drink you want to make.
Bright lime character, ready to pour, without squeezing citrus for every drink.
The crisp, sour edge that gives a margarita its snap and a gimlet its clean finish.
Sweetness without sugar, with the roundness and texture that help a cocktail feel complete.
Start with a measured pour, then taste and adjust the full recipe. Once it is right, keep the same measures, ice, and method for the next round.
Cordial Craft was developed around the variables that matter in hospitality: spirit, ice, dilution, temperature, measurement, and service method.
Make polished margaritas, gimlets, daiquiris, spritzes, and highballs without building every drink from scratch.
Try the cordial in your own recipes, then give the team a clear measure and method for the next round.
Start with one finished drink, then scale the measured ingredients for a gathering. Keep ice, bubbles, and the final garnish ready for service.
Cordial Craft exists to make better cocktails easier to create without sacrificing flavor, authenticity, or the standards of a serious bar program.
A quick guide to what Cordial Craft is, how the flagship lime cordial works, and who it was built for.
Cordial Craft is a San Diego craft cordial company making bartender-built cocktail ingredients that help homes, bars, hotels, and events create balanced drinks with fewer moving parts.
Austin Davis, a San Diego bartender and product developer, founded Cordial Craft. It began with a drink he wanted to make for Maia and grew through formulation and cocktail work.
Cordial Craft Zero-Sugar Lime Cordial replaces lime juice and simple syrup in one measured pour, bringing lime flavor, acidity, sweetness, and body together with zero sugar.
Use Cordial Craft in shaken cocktails, highballs, batching, and zero-proof builds. A simple shaken starting point is two parts spirit to one part Cordial Craft. See the complete How to Use guide for builds and batching guidance.
Yes. Cordial Craft can be used at home and evaluated by hospitality teams as a measured starting point for cocktails and batches. Explore wholesale and hospitality programs.
Find margaritas, gimlets, daiquiris, spritzes, highballs, zero-proof drinks, and more in the Cordial Craft recipe library.
Start with the lime. Choose your spirit, chill the drink, and make it your own. Zero-Sugar Lime Cordial is made for home bars, bars, hotels, and events, and anyone who wants to share a better drink.
