Bitters’ ABV and Their Use in Nonalcoholic Cocktails
Bitters can have a big flavor impact on cocktails, and now with nonalcoholic bitters available to use, we don’t have to debate the ethics of adding them to one’s drink.
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How Quinine Conquered the World of Booze
Quinine is best known as the bitter flavoring element in tonic water, but it’s also found in many liqueurs, vermouths, fortified wines, and amari.
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How to Categorize Amaro
These bitter liqueurs can be categorized by flavor or by use, like aperitif and digestif.
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Amaro: Making Sense of These Bitter Liqueurs
The simplest definition for amaro might be “the category of bitter Italian liqueurs,” but of course nothing is ever that simple.
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Tasting Our Way Though the Bitter Truth Manhattan Challenge
See how much a dash of bitters (or three) can subvert a classic cocktail.
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Taste Test: Santa Teresa 1796 Cantinero Coffee Bitters
Cantinero Coffee Bitters are the second bitters to come from Santa Teresa 1796, Venezuela’s excellent solera-aged rum.
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Angostura Cocoa Bitters Are a Rich, Flavorful Addition to Cocktails
Angostura’s third bitters is here, and this time it’s all about cocoa.
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Jack Daniel’s Launches Tennessee Cocktail Bitters
Now you can dose your Jack Daniel’s cocktails with Jack Daniel’s bitters.
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Bogart’s Bitters Review
Bogart’s Bitters is something like the Holy Grail of its category—and the folks behind The Bitter Truth have resurrected it.
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How to Make Bitters
Your DIY guide to making cocktail bitters at home.
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Holiday Cocktails With El Guapo Bitters
Holiday-themed drinking is upon us, yet man cannot (and definitely should not) live on eggnog alone. Anyone looking to expand their yuletide tippling beyond eggy punches has an ally in the form of El Guapo, a Louisiana-based maker of syrups…
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Martini & Rossi Riserva Speciale Bitter Liqueur Review
Campari, You know that I love you. But I feel that we should see other people. No, it’s nothing you did. It’s just that Martini & Rossi is releasing their new Riserva Speciale Bitter Liqueur in October. And—I just don’t…
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The Bitter Truth Olive Bitters
The Bitter Truth, the lauded German producer of cocktail bitters, has finally freed the olive. Previously, their olive bitters were only available in a 20mL size as part of the The Bitter Truth Bar Pack. But in April the brand…
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Making Bitters with Auchentoshan
As the rain poured down on an otherwise lovely afternoon in the Big Easy, a small group of us dipped into the fascinating New Orleans Pharmacy Museum to learn more about bitters and single malt scotch. It was a fitting…
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Seven Stills Kickstarts a Bitters Line
Dozens of new cocktail bitters have launched in the last few years, but one San Francisco duo is proving that there’s room for more. Tim Obert and Clint Potter from The Seven Stills of SF distillery are branching out into…
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A Trio of Unusual Bitter Liqueurs
There’s nothing quite like a bitter liqueur. In Europe especially, such liqueurs are often enjoyed as a digestive aid at the end of a big meal. But bitter liqueurs can be employed to great effect in cocktails too, something we’ve seen on drinks menus across the globe…read more →
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Some Unusual Cocktail Bitters to Know About
As you may know, bitters are essences of powerful flavors that are used to enhance cocktails and, sometimes, to season food. As bitters continue to gain more prominence in bars around the world, we’re able to experience flavors and combinations we never thought were possible. Exciting times…read more →
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It wasn’t too long ago that the bitters world was dominated by Angostura, and your local liquor store was progressive if they carried Peychaud’s and Fee’s. These days, stalwarts like Angostura are joined on store shelves by Regan’s, The Bitter…
Read MoreReyka Vodka and Icelandic Bitters
It’s difficult to find a drink that bitters don’t make better. Their enhancing, tie-the-room-together qualities can take a cocktail from ordinary to extraordinary. But sprinkling them on top of vodka? Never occurred to us. Then again, vodka on the rocks…
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The Bitter Truth Cocktail Bitters Traveler’s Set
Ardent drinkers know that a dash of bitters can transform a cocktail from mundane to magical. But what does a cocktail aficionado like yourself do when on the road – perhaps cooped up in a hotel room or tippling on…
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