Drink notes

Lately I’ve been enjoying of an evening a Bourbon Manhattan on the rocks (a true Manhattan uses rye and is served straight up), using Bullett Bourbon, Fee Brothers Peach Bitters, and Dolin sweet vermouth. The peach bitters are noticeable and excellent. Fee Brothers have quite an assortment of bitters:

• Aztec Chocolate Bitters
• Black Walnut Bitters
• Celery Bitters
• Cherry Bitters
• Cranberry Bitters
• Gin Barrel-Aged Orange Bitters
• Grapefruit Bitters
• Lemon Bitters
• Mint Bitters
• Old Fashion[ed – LG] Aromatic Bitters
• Peach Bitters
• Plum Bitters
• Rhubarb Bitters
• West Indian Orange Bitters
• Whiskey Barrel-Aged Bitters

I will warn you that the Lemon Bitters will attack the plastic dropper cap and make it come off, so a “dash” becomes “half the bottle.” Be careful.

Amazon, for the adventurous, offers the complete set. They’re also good in lemonade, gin and tonic, highballs, and other drinks, as well as on fruit salads, etc.

The list above fails to include Boker’s style Cardamom Bitters, an essential ingredient for many Pre-Prohibition vintage cocktails. And, of course, I’m not even mentioning Berg & Hauck’s Bitters, though they, too, are available from Amazon. And of course you can find Scrappy’s Bitters… and many more. Bitters constitute a little world of their own.