# Aromatic bitters

Cocktail bitters with a warm, complex profile typically led by herbs, roots, bark, and baking spices.

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

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Types

- [Angostura bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/angostura-bitters.md): 44.7% ABV. A highly concentrated aromatic bitters that adds layered fruit, spice, and herbal flavours to drinks.
- [Bittermens Buckspice Ginger Bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/buckspice-bitters.md): 44% ABV. A dry ginger bitters built around the spice profile of northern European gingersnap biscuits, with concentrated ginger and warm baking spice.
- [Peychaud’s bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/peychauds-bitters.md): 35% ABV. A New Orleans aromatic bitters made from spirits infused with botanicals and closely associated with the Sazerac.
- [Pimento aromatic bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/pimento-bitters.md): 45% ABV. An aromatic cocktail bitters led by Jamaican pimento or allspice, with dry clove, pepper, anise, and warm spice.
- [The Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas’ Own Decanter Bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/jerry-thomas-bitters.md): 30% ABV. A 30% ABV aromatic bitters with tangerine, dried fruit, ginger, clove, cinnamon, and Angostura-bark spice, inspired by a nineteenth-century Jerry Thomas formula.

## Cocktails

- [Brandy Crusta](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-crusta.md): A brandy sour with maraschino, curaçao, bitters, a sugar-crusted rim, and a long citrus peel.

## References

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