When referring to "bitters" in an alcoholic mixed drink what exactly are they?!
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A good liquor store will carry the small bottle of bitters, and it should be less than $6. It will last you for many years -- you only use 1-3 drops in a drink.
It has a strong, spicy, bitter, and somewhat vanilla taste to it. There is really no substitute for it in certain drink recipes. Many people don't like it at all.
Answers: Caroline is right, but copying it right out of Wikipedia is cheating.
Here's some info you can use:
A good liquor store will carry the small bottle of bitters, and it should be less than $6. It will last you for many years -- you only use 1-3 drops in a drink.
It has a strong, spicy, bitter, and somewhat vanilla taste to it. There is really no substitute for it in certain drink recipes. Many people don't like it at all.
Bitters, are sour mixes in packets you buy at the liquor store! For example, a tom collins mix is a sour mix! They, make your drink, sour that's all! Hope this helped you!!!!!
Angostura bitters, often simply referred to as angostura, is a concentrated bitters for food and beverages made of herbs and spices.
The recipe was developed in 1824 by German Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a Surgeon General in Simon Bolivar's army in Venezuela. He was based in Ciudad Bolívar which was then known as Angostura, and used locally available ingredients. The exact formula is a closely guarded secret, with only five people knowing the whole recipe.
Today, Angostura bitters are produced by various vendors, some of which add the bark of the angostura tree, possibly merely to make it legal to put the word "angostura" on the label, which is a registered trademark of House of Angostura.[citation needed]As Angostura bitters are extremely concentrated, they are not normally drunk purely, but used to flavour drinks and food; usually only a few drops or splashes are used.
Angostura bitters are a key ingredient in many cocktails. Originally used to mask the flavour of quinine in tonic water along with gin, the mix stuck in the form of a Pink Gin, and is also used in many other alcoholic cocktails such as "Long Vodka", consisting of vodka, Angostura bitter, and lemonade, and the Manhattan, made with whiskey and sweet (Italian) vermouth
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"Bitters" are a food/drink additive which impart bitterness. Like hot sauce but bitter not spicy.