# Cocktail bitters

A concentrated botanical preparation added in dashes to season and balance cocktails.

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Types

- [Aromatic bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/aromatic-bitters.md): 40% ABV. Cocktail bitters with a warm, complex profile typically led by herbs, roots, bark, and baking spices.
- [Bittermens Orchard Street Celery Shrub](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/orchard-street-celery-shrub.md): 44% ABV. A tart, saline celery bitters with apple, ginger, and cider-vinegar character, inspired by the pickle shops of New York's Lower East Side.
- [Celery bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/celery-bitters.md): 44% ABV. A savoury cocktail bitters with celery-seed, citrus, and vegetal spice notes.
- [Grapefruit bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/grapefruit-bitters.md): 45% ABV. Citrus bitters led by grapefruit peel, adding bright zest, pithy bitterness, and herbal depth in dash-sized measures.
- [Mole bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/mole-bitters.md): 53% ABV. Cocktail bitters built around cacao and warming chile and spice flavours, used in small measures to add dark aromatic depth.
- [Orange bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/orange-bitters.md): 28% ABV. Cocktail bitters combining concentrated orange-peel flavour with bitter botanicals and spices.
- [Peach bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/peach-bitters.md): 1.7% ABV. Cocktail bitters combining ripe peach aroma with citrus, spice, and a subtle bitter-almond background.
- [Tiki bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/tiki-bitters.md): 44% ABV. A concentrated cocktail bitters combining tropical spice, citrus, and aromatic baking-spice flavours.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cocktail-bitters
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/cocktail-bitters-93c1b35b.webp
- Source: https://angosturabitters.com/