"homemade bitters" news and stories

With chatter of Angostura's shortage of bitters floating around, I chuckled as I unpacked several 16 ounce bottles I lugged in my move to Mexico. I was more pleased with myself, however, to find an old recipe for homemade grapefruit bitters in some papers while unpacking. Several years ago I made a batch that I really liked, but for the life of me, couldn't find my scribbles of what I had done.

Homemade bitters are nothing new to the cocktail scene. Even Jerry Thomas has his own bitters recipes in his 1862 Bar-Tenders Guide.

With the hang of making bitters yourself, you can relax when reports of shortages get the rest of the world all flustered.