Posts Tagged 'Orange Bitters'

The Recipe:

1 1/2 ounces gin

3/4 ounce dry vermouth

1/4 ounce Bitter Truth Violet Liqueur

2 dashes absinthe

2 dashes Bitter Truth Orange Bitters

Stir over ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Borden Chase

• 1 ¾ oz Scotch
• ¾ oz Carpano Antica
• 1/8 oz absinthe
• 2 dashes The Bitter Truth Orange Bitters

Stir with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

(circa 1935)

via Balvenie 17yr Madeira Cask & Drinking at Home « SpiritsAndCocktails.com.

Jason Littrell from Death & Co. in NYC was challenged by Liquor.com to create a couple of cocktails to honor the athletes of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. This is one of his creations:

Citius, Altius, Fortius

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 oz Bluecoat Gin (US)
• .5 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth (France)
• .5 oz Martini & Rossi Sweet Vermouth (Italy)
• 2 Dashes The Bitter Truth Orange Bitters (Germany)
• Teaspoon Kubler Absinthe (Switzerland)
• Teaspoon Crown Royal Whisky (Canada)
• Teaspoon simple syrup (1 part sugar, 1 part water)

Garnish: Orange wedge

Glass: Cocktail

PREPARATION:

Add the ingredients to a mixing glass filled with ice and stir. Serve the drink in a cocktail glass with an orange wedge.

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“Old Waldorf Bar Days” by Albert Stevens Crockett was one of the great books of the 1930`s. The bar of the Old Waldorf hotel was the social meeting place in NYC at that time, but unfortunately the hotel itself had to make room for a new icon of New York City – The Empire State Building.

The Sherman Cocktail, found in Crockett`s book is essentially a twist on the classic Manhattan with the addition of absinthe and two types of bitters.

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