bitters

  • Turbinado

    The weather is warming up again here, and it’s time to celebrate! This warm-weather recipe was created by Jackson Cannon of Eastern Standard in Boston. It’s a simple concoction that tastes very layered.

    Ingredients:
    2 oz of Brugal Añejo
    1 oz fresh squeezed lime
    .75 oz demerara syrup (simple syrup made with raw demerara sugar)
    Dash of Angostura bitters
    1.5 oz ginger beer

    Directions:
    Shake ingredients and serve in a highball glass filled with crushed … Read more

  • Spring-Time Manhattan

    Ingredients:
    1 ½ parts Maker’s Mark
    ½ parts Maurin Quina Liqueur
    1 bar spoon Stirrings Ginger
    4 dashes Peychauds Bitters
    1 heaping bar spoon of orange marmalade

    Directions:
    Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Fill with ice and shake until frost forms on the tin. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a fresh orange twist.

    Recipe by Josh Lewis (Blush). Courtesy of Maker’s Mark Whisky.… Read more

  • Tin Cup

    This scotch cocktail was created by Andrew Pollard for the Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival. Inspired in part by the Pimm’s Cup, this is made for outdoor sipping. It’s a great way to use ginger beer, much like a Dark and Stormy, with a new range of flavors.

    Ingredients:
    1 ½ oz Macallan Fine Oak 10 Year
    ½ oz fresh lime juice
    3 dashes Angostura bitters
    Gosling’s ginger beer
    Mint sprig

    Directions:
    Dry shake … Read more

  • The 1820

    Founder of Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC) Boston, Misty Kalkofen, created the 1820 to toast strong women who drink strong spirits in honor of International Women’s Day.

    While women and men weren’t permitted to mingle in the bar until after prohibition, women like Texas Guinan have owned and operated taverns and been a part of cocktail culture for generations. Ada Coleman, for example, was the first head bartender at the esteemed … Read more

  • Bitter Truth

    ByTheSpir.it

    How a cure-all became a cocktail component
    By Carly Wray

    This article originally appeared in TheSpir.it

    It’s 1820. A German doctor sets out for Venezuela to join Simon Bolivar’s fight against Spain. It’s not long before he’s Surgeon General, manning a military hospital and overseeing the casualties, not just of war, but of tropical diseases. Chills, sea sickness. Ravaging disorders. And it’s not much longer before he conjures a cure: Angostura bitters.

    In the end, … Read more