Bitters recipe

Learn how to make bitters for your home mixology recipes!

These homemade cocktail bitters recipes make it easy to create your own unique bitters for drinks. Instead of buying off the shelf, you can get creative and invent your own delicious bitters with any flavors you like.

This week we show how to create your own Bitters and Tinctures by using a flavor library for blending.

I’m about to tell you something really embarrassing. Ever since the scene in Crazy, Stupid Love… the scene where Ryan Gosling makes a cocktail for Emma Stone… I’ve wanted to make bitters. Really. That’s been my driving force. hu. miliating. I mean, I’ve had bitters in my cocktails for years and have enjoyed them, but […]

This coffee and cacao cocktail bitters recipe can be made with bourbon or rum, takes 10 minutes of your hands-on time, and has so many health benefits and uses. Use these cocktail bitters to add a nutritive botanical touch to your favorite rum or bourbon cocktails, add them to a glass of sparkling water for digestive support, use them for flavor in baking, and more. The longer you let the liquor infuse, the stronger the flavor will be.

Cocktail bitters are one of the easiest ways to add complexity to a drink. Learn more about how to use this incredible, versatile ingredient.

If you’ve bellied up to a craft cocktail bar lately, you’ve likely noticed little bottles of concentrated spirit-and-botanical infusions adorning the bar top. These are homemade bitters, and they’re not so hard to make. These bitters are often the handiwork of the team behind the bar — and they run the gamut from the very versatile for a broad array of drink recipes, to very specific and esoteric flavors suited to just one or two drinks.

Herbal bitters have an important role to play in health. Learn why they are good for you and find some recipes to make your own.

Thinking about making your own bitters? This all-purpose guide to making and bottling homemade bitters will show you. Get started at Liquor.com.

You can use vodka or whiskey, if you prefer, in lieu of the rum. Note that the higher the proof (ABV), the better the extraction of flavors, so feel free to use any of those spirits with a higher alcohol level. I made the gentian root optional but it adds a husky bitterness that I find really makes the bitters, better. You can find it at herbalists, natural foods stores, or online at Penn Herb, Mountain Rose Herbs, and Etsy. You can also play around with the spices. A bit of cinnamon, a…