Old-Fashioned Bitters, Orange Bitters, Lemon Bitters, Mint Bitters – if you’re looking for these, try your local liquor store. Bittermens are a whole different kind of bitters.
The foundation for our bitters is the cocktail – and each bitter we’ve created was designed to enhance classic drinks as well as help build the foundation for a new generation of classic cocktails.
Our bitters formulas are non-potable flavoring extracts created by steeping a variety of herbs, spices and peels in taxed high-proof neutral grain spirit.
Retail Bittermens Formulations – Available Now!
Xocolatl Mole Bitters – Chocolate Spice
Produced and marketed in partnership with The Bitter Truth
Inspired by the classic Mexican chocolate mole sauce – this bitters recipe highlights tequila, aged rum and whiskey cocktails. Try substituting these bitters in a Manhattan or adding to a Margarita. 100 Proof.
Primary Flavors: Cocoa, Spice
Grapefruit Bitters
Produced and marketed in partnership with The Bitter Truth
Designed to enhance young (silver) rums, tequilas and mezcal, the grapefruit bitters play well with most cocktails where you need a little citrus punch. Try it in a daiquiri or gimlet. 96 Proof.
Primary Flavors: Grapefruit, Hops
Donn’s Tinc
Recipe available for free under a Creative Commons License
Love making classic tiki drinks but don’t always have Donn’s Mix at hand? Our Donn’s Mix is a shelf-stable formulation you can easily make at home for pennies a bottle.
Primary Flavors: Grapefruit, Cinnamon
Bittermens Formulations Available for Licensing
Though we no longer produce these bitters ourselves, we will consider licensing production to individual bars or other producers.
Boston Bittahs
After the rousing success of the ‘Elemakule Bitters, we set forth to come up with a new bitter that celebrates both the return of summer and our return to Boston after 14 years. It’s citrus, citrus, citrus and more citrus, supported with a variety of East Asian flavors. Try it in your favorite fizz, sour or bright tropical drink.
Primary Flavors: Citrus, Holy Basil, Chamomile and more Citrus
‘Elemakule Tiki Cocktail Bitters
Brian Miller – One of the fantastic bartenders Death and Company and tiki enthusiast asked if we ever considered making a Falernum – a classic west indian spiced cordial. Though we’re not doing cordials, we did wonder if it’s possible to actually create a bitter designed with tiki cocktails in mind. It’s a departure from our normal bitters in many ways: the recipe has been simplified in order to make it easy to make at a bar with limited facilities, we’ve developed a new set of bittering agents that play much better tiki drinks and we’ve included a little fresh fruit into the mix.
Primary Flavors: Allspice, Star Anise, Cardamom and Citrus
Squirrel Nut Bitters
After tasting a beautiful pecan-infused bourbon, we got the crazy idea to make a nut bitter for the cold winter months. The Squirrel Nut Bitters work beautifully with all forms of whisky and aged rums. Try it in a New York Flip for a bit of extra zing!
Primary Flavors: Pecan and Vanilla
Sweet Chocolate Bitters
A happy mistake that occurred when mis-measuring the amount of chocolate in a batch of Xocolatl Bitters. Our simplest bitter from a cocktail perspective as brings primarily chocolate notes. Makes an amazing 20th Century Cocktail and rescues the dreaded “Choco-Tini” from banality.
Primary Flavors: Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate!
Peppercake Bitters
A classic New England gingerbread made into a serious bitter. Originally made for Craigie on Main in Cambridge, MA, these bitters bring warmth and complexity to bourbon, rye and dark rums.
Primary Flavors: Ginger and Spice
Moroccan Orange
A blend of North African spices and orange peel, accented with the faint aroma and flavor of coffee – these are not your run-of-the-mill orange bitters. Built as a custom bitter for a bar in Boston, this bitter brings that special something to everything from a a refreshing gin spritz to a warming winter toddy.
Primary Flavors: coffee, orange and roasted spices