Category: bitters
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The Medical Claims of Suze
In my book Doctors and Distillers, I wrote a lot about the medicinal history of bittering agents used in many aperitifs, herbal liqueurs, and amaros. Suze is a gentian liqueur, and gentian is one of the most (if not the most) important bittering agents. The others are cinchona, wormwood, and to a lesser extent, rhubarb…
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Did the Original Cocktail Sauce Contain Angostura Bitters?
I am researching Prohibition and a search for “cocktails” in the San Francisco Chronicle turned up a story from 1920 on the origin of the “oyster cocktail” that I think is what today we call “cocktail sauce” that is used more on the shrimp cocktail. (I am a 30+ year vegetarian so I could be…
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The Best Drinks Books of 2024
These are some of my favorite cocktails and spirits books I read in 2024. Several of them I blurbed for their authors. There are few more books that were published this year that I haven't read yet, so maybe they'll get on next year's list. My 2023 Best Of List is here, by the way. In…
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Malort Book Review
This review that I wrote first appeared on AlcoholProfessor.com. Boozy Book Review: Malört: The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit by Josh Noel Jeppson's Malört is a famously disgusting liqueur from Chicago. It’s the drink that your party friends force you to try when you visit them, or sometimes the drink that a dive…
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How Much Alcohol Do Bitters Contribute to a Non-Alcoholic Drink?
I was a speaker on a panel for Tales of the Cocktail 2020 in which I said that we should be careful about bitters in non-alcoholic cocktails. In my experience, if you ask someone who orders a non-alcoholic cocktail if "a dash of alcohol is okay" to put bitters in the drink, most people get…
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All the Cocktail and Spirits Books Released in 2019
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in alcohol law, baijiu, beer, bitters, books, bourbon, cider, cocktails, distilling, garnish, gifts, gin, history, legal/law/regulations, mixers, molecular mixology, non-alcoholic, punch, recipes, rum, rye, sake, scotch whisky, tequila, tiki, tonic, tonic water, whisky, wineMore than 70 cocktails and spirits books (plus a few on cider, beer, and spiritzes) published in 2019.
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A Guide to Botanicals Used in Cocchi Aromatized Wines & Vermouths
A closer look at 23 botanicals used in Cocchi products.
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Campari Production Info: Extraction, ABV, Coloring, and Fining
Processes and parameters used in production of Campari. Now we just need to figure out what’s in it.
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A Little Overkill at my Tales of the Cocktail Seminar on Bitter Flavors
The slightly ridiculous amount of tasting samples I prepared for a talk at Tales of the Cocktail.
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Bitter Ingredient Flavors and Use from Martini Vermouth Masters
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A lot of bits and bites of information about bittering agents used in vermouths and aperitivo bitters from some people who know a lot about them.