# Angostura bitters

A highly concentrated aromatic bitters that adds layered fruit, spice, and herbal flavours to drinks.

Parent category: [Aromatic bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/aromatic-bitters.md)

Alcohol: 44.7% ABV

## Cocktails

- [100-Year-Old Cigar](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/100-year-old-cigar.md): Aged rum becomes a dark after-dinner drink under Cynar, Bénédictine, peat, bitters, and the lingering aroma of an absinthe-rinsed glass.
- [151 Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/151-swizzle.md): Donn Beach's formidable swizzle, driving overproof Demerara rum through lime, sugar, aromatic bitters, and a cool thread of anise.
- [Absinthe Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/absinthe-cocktail.md): Anisette and aromatic bitters season a water-softened absinthe base in this short, shaken modern metric reading of the recipe Jerry Thomas published.
- [Affinity](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/affinity.md): Equal Scotch, dry vermouth, and sweet vermouth make this Perfect-Manhattan relative unusually wine-led, herbal, and softly malty.
- [Angostura Colada](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/angostura-colada.md): Zac Overman's audacious colada makes aromatic bitters the base, rounded by coconut and pineapple and sharpened with lime and overproof Jamaican rum.
- [Army & Navy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/army-and-navy.md): Orgeat replaces plain sugar in this gin sour, bringing almond richness and orange-flower perfume into a sharply structured, bitters-seasoned drink.
- [Art of Choke](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/art-of-choke.md): Cynar and rum absorb lime, rich demerara, bitters, and muddled mint in a stirred drink whose fresh ingredients behave nothing like a conventional sour.
- [Añejo Highball](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/anejo-highball.md): Dale DeGroff’s rum highball layers oak, orange, lime, ginger, and bitters into a bright long drink with considerably more structure than a simple buck.
- [Bamboo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bamboo.md): A delicate, low-alcohol aperitif joining fino sherry and dry vermouth with aromatic bitters.
- [Barbados Rum Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/barbados-rum-punch.md): The old Barbadian rhyme becomes a measured drink of lime, sugar, island rum, water, bitters, and nutmeg over crushed ice.
- [Black Manhattan](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/black-manhattan.md): A dark, bittersweet Manhattan that replaces vermouth with rich Sicilian Averna.
- [Blackthorn (English)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/blackthorn-english.md): London dry gin and sloe gin turn a split-vermouth Martini into a dark-fruited, bitters-seasoned counterpart to the Irish Blackthorn.
- [Blackthorn (Irish)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/blackthorn-irish.md): Irish whiskey and dry vermouth form an austere, aromatic cocktail seasoned with absinthe and Angostura.
- [Brandy Scaffa](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-scaffa.md): Equal old brandy and maraschino with aromatic bitters preserve Jerry Thomas’s concentrated, undiluted room-temperature scaffa.
- [Champagne Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/champagne-cocktail.md): A bitters-soaked sugar cube focuses Champagne's stream of bubbles, while Cognac gives the drink quiet depth.
- [Chicago Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chicago-cocktail.md): Cognac, curaçao, and bitters meet a restrained Champagne top beneath a sugar-crusted rim, placing this 1922 drink between the Champagne Cocktail and Brandy Crusta.
- [Chilcano](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chilcano.md): A crisp Peruvian pisco highball lengthened with ginger ale and lightly seasoned with aromatic bitters.
- [Cobra's Fang](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cobras-fang.md): Overproof Demerara rum drives orange, lime, passion fruit, falernum, bitters, and anise through crushed ice in a direct and unusually severe Donn Beach punch.
- [Conference](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/conference.md): A four-spirit Old Fashioned uniting rye, bourbon, Cognac, and Calvados with demerara and bitters.
- [Copenhagen](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/copenhagen.md): Genever, dark cherry liqueur, lime, syrup, and Angostura form Gromit Eduardsen’s bready, jammy 2009 signature cocktail for Copenhagen.
- [Delmonico No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/delmonico-no-1.md): Cognac gives a Perfect Martini's split vermouth a small measure of vinous weight while Angostura adds spice, preserving the drink's useful closeness to its better-known relation.
- [Dunlop Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/dunlop-cocktail.md): A Savoy-era union of mellow aged rum and dry, nutty amontillado needs only one dash of bitters to become a complete after-dinner cocktail.
- [East India Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/east-india-cocktail.md): Tiny measures of pineapple, curaçao, maraschino, and bitters season Cognac without turning this nineteenth-century drink into either a sour or a tropical punch.
- [El Capitán](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/el-capitan.md): A Peruvian classic joining fragrant grape spirit and sweet vermouth in equal measure, sharpened with aromatic bitters and a savoury olive.
- [Fancy Free](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fancy-free.md): Maraschino replaces sugar entirely in this modern rocks-glass reading of an early whiskey cocktail, with two bitters keeping bourbon's sweetness taut.
- [Flor de Jerez](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/flor-de-jerez.md): A sherry-led sour lifted by Jamaican rum, apricot liqueur, lemon, and aromatic bitters.
- [Green Fairy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/green-fairy.md): Absinthe leads lemon, rich syrup, aromatic bitters, and egg white in Dick Bradsell’s poised, foaming 1990s London sour.
- [Greenpoint](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/greenpoint.md): A Manhattan variation layering rye and sweet vermouth with herbal Yellow Chartreuse.
- [Gunner](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gunner.md): Equal ginger beer and ginger ale make a sharp Hong Kong clubhouse cooler seasoned with Angostura and lemon.
- [Halekulani](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/halekulani.md): High-proof bourbon carries three fresh juices, restrained grenadine, and bitters in a poised Waikiki hotel drink that feels sharper than its tropical ingredients suggest.
- [Hearst Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hearst-cocktail.md): An equal-parts sweet Martini where aromatic and orange bitters put a dark, spiced edge around dry gin and fresh Italian-style vermouth.
- [Heart of Glass](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/heart-of-glass.md): Troy Sidle’s room-temperature Manhattan-scaffa measures its own dilution, saturates bourbon with Cynar and bitters, and turns a whiskey rinse into ritual.
- [Horsefeather](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/horsefeather.md): A Kansas City whiskey highball pushes ginger beer hard against aromatic bitters and a squeezed lemon wedge for a peppery, regional cousin of the buck.
- [Improved Holland Gin Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/improved-holland-gin-cocktail.md): Malt-weighted genever carries the nineteenth-century improved-cocktail grammar of sugar, bitters, curaçao, and absinthe without relying on vermouth.
- [Improved Whiskey Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/improved-whiskey-cocktail.md): Rye is improved in the nineteenth-century sense with tiny measures of maraschino, sugar, absinthe, and bitters, preserving the whiskey's shape while connecting the Old Fashioned to the Sazerac.
- [Iron Ranger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/iron-ranger.md): Erick Castro's bourbon-led tropical drink, bringing pineapple and lemon into focus with falernum, sugar, spice, and serious whiskey weight.
- [Japanese Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/japanese-cocktail.md): Cognac, orgeat, and aromatic bitters form a foundational stirred cocktail whose dry brandy structure keeps the almond syrup far from tropical territory.
- [Jet Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/jet-pilot.md): Three rums, two citrus juices, cinnamon, falernum, anise, and bitters form a compact Luau-era tropical drink with uncommon power and precision.
- [Journalist Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/journalist-cocktail.md): A Perfect Martini gains tiny dashes of lemon, curaçao, and Angostura in this Savoy-era shaken cocktail.
- [Lemon Lime & Bitters](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/lemon-lime-and-bitters.md): Sparkling lemonade, lime cordial, fresh citrus, and aromatic bitters make an adult Australian refresher with only trace alcohol.
- [Manhattan](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/manhattan.md): A spirit-forward rye cocktail softened by sweet vermouth and seasoned with aromatic bitters.
- [Mezcal Rosita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mezcal-rosita.md): A smoky, bittersweet Rosita variation combining mezcal and Campari with both sweet and dry vermouth.
- [Monte Carlo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monte-carlo.md): Rye, Bénédictine, and Angostura make an Old Fashioned branch in which the liqueur supplies every trace of sweetness as well as a deep herbal finish.
- [Nui Nui](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/nui-nui.md): Aged rum, orange, and lime carry cinnamon, vanilla, allspice, and bitters in one of Donn Beach's most aromatic and spice-led tropical drinks.
- [Oaxaca Old-Fashioned](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/oaxaca-old-fashioned.md): A split-base Old Fashioned pairing reposado tequila with smoky mezcal, agave, and aromatic bitters.
- [Old Cuban](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/old-cuban.md): An aged-rum Daiquiri lengthened with sparkling wine and perfumed with mint and aromatic bitters.
- [Old Fashioned](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/old-fashioned.md): A spirit-forward mixture of whiskey, bitters, sugar, and water served over ice.
- [Pearl Diver](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pearl-diver.md): Donn Beach’s chilled honey-butter emulsion gives light and Demerara rums an almost weightless silkiness beneath orange, lime, spice, and crushed ice.
- [Pegu Club](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pegu-club.md): Gin, dry orange curaçao, fresh lime, and two kinds of bitters make this Rangoon club classic both a taut sour and an aromatic cocktail.
- [Perfect Manhattan](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/perfect-manhattan.md): A Manhattan whose vermouth is split equally between sweet and dry, bringing a leaner, more herbal balance.
- [Pink Gin](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pink-gin.md): Plymouth gin and Angostura make this austere British wardroom classic, where a deep blush carries aromatic spice through an otherwise unsweetened serve.
- [Pisco Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pisco-sour.md): An aromatic grape-spirit sour balancing lemon and sugar beneath a silky egg-white foam seasoned with bitters.
- [Port au Prince](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/port-au-prince.md): Aged Haitian cane-juice rum stays central while pineapple, lime, falernum, pomegranate, and bitters form a compact, gently spiced tropical punch.
- [Preakness](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/preakness.md): A tiny measure of Bénédictine seasons a rye Manhattan with honeyed herbs and spice in the 1936 structure associated with Baltimore's first Preakness Ball.
- [Prince of Wales (1887)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/prince-of-wales-1887.md): The 1887 rye branch crushes pineapple into a lightly sweetened whiskey cocktail and crowns it with Champagne.
- [Q.B. Cooler](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/qb-cooler.md): Three regional rum styles move through orange, lime, honey, ginger, falernum, bitters, and soda in Donn Beach’s complex 1937 cooler.
- [Queen’s Park Hotel Super Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-hotel-super-cocktail.md): Trinidad rum, sweet vermouth, lime, real grenadine, and Angostura form a tart, aromatic hotel classic wholly distinct from the Queen’s Park Swizzle.
- [Queen’s Park Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-swizzle.md): A high-octane Trinidadian swizzle that drives dark Demerara rum through fragrant mint, lime, sugar, and aromatic bitters.
- [Rabo de Galo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/rabo-de-galo.md): A robust Brazilian aperitif bringing cachaça together with sweet vermouth, earthy Cynar, and aromatic bitters.
- [Rob Roy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/rob-roy.md): A Scotch whisky Manhattan, pairing the grain and smoke of whisky with sweet vermouth and aromatic bitters.
- [Rock Shandy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/rock-shandy.md): Equal sparkling lemonade and soda make South Africa’s brisk, bitters-striped long refresher, finished with lemon.
- [Rosita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/rosita.md): Reposado tequila, split vermouth, Campari, and aromatic bitters form a dry, oak-tinged Negroni relative.
- [Seelbach](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/seelbach.md): Bourbon, orange liqueur, and ten dashes of bitters meet Champagne in Adam Seger's genuinely modern 1995 sparkling cocktail.
- [Singapore Sling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/singapore-sling.md): The modern Raffles branch folds gin, cherry, orange, Bénédictine, bitters, and grenadine through fresh pineapple and lime into a long, foaming tropical classic.
- [Steve’s Rum Barrel](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/steves-rum-barrel.md): Steve Crane’s huge Kon-Tiki barrel balances two full measures of rum against four fresh juices, passion fruit, honey, and precise traces of almond and anise.
- [Suffering Bastard](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/suffering-bastard.md): Joe Scialom's wartime Cairo highball, joining gin and brandy with lime cordial, aromatic bitters, and a bracing ginger-beer finish.
- [Test Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/test-pilot.md): Donn Beach's compact rum drink layers Jamaican and light rum with lime, falernum, orange, bitters, and a trace of anise.
- [The Brave](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/the-brave.md): A still, spirit-forward union of mezcal, tequila, Averna, and orange liqueur perfumed with bitters.
- [Three Dots and a Dash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/three-dots-and-a-dash.md): Donn Beach's wartime victory drink, joining aged agricole and blended rum with honeyed citrus and a precise current of island spice.
- [Tipperary](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tipperary.md): An Irish whiskey cocktail enriched with sweet vermouth, Green Chartreuse, and aromatic bitters.
- [Toronto](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/toronto.md): A rye Old Fashioned sharpened by the bracing herbal bitterness of Fernet-Branca.
- [Treacle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/treacle.md): Dark Jamaican rum, bitters, and a small float of clear apple juice produce the deep caramelised-fruit impression that gives this London Old Fashioned its name.
- [Trinidad Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/trinidad-fizz.md): Angostura bitters lead a creamy, foaming historical fizz brightened with lemon, grenadine, and cold soda.
- [Trinidad Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/trinidad-sour.md): A radical modern sour using aromatic bitters as its base, softened by rye, lemon, and almond.
- [Twenty Seventy Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/twenty-seventy-swizzle.md): Contrasting rum styles carry lime, honey, demerara, allspice, anise, bitters, and nutmeg through Martin Cate and Ron Roumas’s dark modern swizzle.
- [Up-to-Date](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/up-to-date.md): Equal rye and dry amontillado make a lean, nutty Manhattan relation in which orange liqueur and bitters work as seasoning rather than sweetness.
- [Widow's Kiss](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/widows-kiss.md): Calvados anchors equal small measures of Yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine in a compact nineteenth-century digestif whose sweetness is checked by aromatic bitters.
- [Zombie](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/zombie.md): Donn Beach's formidable 1934 rum rhapsody, layered with citrus, cinnamon, spice, anise, and enough overproof depth to justify its legendary two-drink limit.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/angostura-bitters
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