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Bitters: Bitters Are Alcohol That's Been Heavily Flavoured With Herbs, Peels, Bark, Spices, and Bitter Tasting Roots

Bitters are alcoholic liquids that are heavily flavored with herbs, peels, bark, spices, and bitter tasting roots. In the 1800s, many brands were developed as supposed cure-alls for various ailments, allowing drinkers to avoid taxes and stigma. While bitters were once used as medicines, they are now commonly used to flavor cocktails and coffee. Bitters come in spirit-based or wine-based varieties and can be used for flavoring or as digestive aperitifs.

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Bitters: Bitters Are Alcohol That's Been Heavily Flavoured With Herbs, Peels, Bark, Spices, and Bitter Tasting Roots

Bitters are alcoholic liquids that are heavily flavored with herbs, peels, bark, spices, and bitter tasting roots. In the 1800s, many brands were developed as supposed cure-alls for various ailments, allowing drinkers to avoid taxes and stigma. While bitters were once used as medicines, they are now commonly used to flavor cocktails and coffee. Bitters come in spirit-based or wine-based varieties and can be used for flavoring or as digestive aperitifs.

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BITTERS

Bitters are alcohol that's been heavily flavoured with herbs,


peels, bark, spices, and bitter tasting roots.

History
Many brands were developed in the 1800s as elixirs that were
supposed to cure indigestion, jaundice, and a variety of other
ailments.  Due to these "medicinal" properties, bitters allowed
drinkers to avoid both liquor taxes and social stigma.  The Authorities
put a stop to the medicinal claims in the early 1900s, and bitters
quickly fell out of favour, except for a brief comeback during
Prohibition.

Numerous Herbs, Plants, Barks of trees impart bitterness to these


bitters. Gentian is common, Gentian is a flavouring alpine plant that
has been used as a tonic and anti fever remedy for ages. Quinine
was the new world alternative to gentian, it is a bark of the Cinchona
tree , a native of South America. Bitters were taken as restoratives
and remedies for diverse conditions ranging from indigestion to
painful joints
Today, they're used to flavour cocktails, coffee, and various dishes.
Addition of more than a dash or two of bitters can easily overpower
other flavours. Bitters come in with the base of Spirits and Wines.
Some of the examples of Spirit Based bitters are; Amer Picon,
Campari, Cynar, Fernet Branca, Suze and Unicum. The Examples of
Wine Based Bitters are Byrrh, Dubbonet, Lillet, and Punt e Mes,

Bitters are categorized into two types


1) Used as flavouring e.g. Angoustra, Underberg etc.
2) Taken as Aperitifs also termed as Bitter Liqueurs, Bitter liqueurs
are not intensely flavoured as the former. e.g. Campari, Lillet, Cynar
etc.

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