# Peychaud’s bitters

A New Orleans aromatic bitters made from spirits infused with botanicals and closely associated with the Sazerac.

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

Alcohol: 35% ABV

## Cocktails

- [Bywater](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bywater.md): Chris Hannah’s current New Orleans rum-Brooklyn branch joins aged rum to Averna, green alpine herbs, falernum, and two aromatic bitters.
- [Clean Slate](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/clean-slate.md): Manzanilla and blanc vermouth make a saline, floral aperitif sharpened by gentian and Peychaud’s in Jermaine Whitehead’s quietly exact low-alcohol drink.
- [Fourth Regiment](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fourth-regiment.md): Three distinct bitters turn an equal rye-and-sweet-vermouth Manhattan ancestor into a detailed study of citrus, anise, and savoury celery.
- [Gunshop Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gunshop-fizz.md): Two full ounces of Peychaud’s turn strawberry, cucumber, citrus peel, lemon, syrup, and red bitter soda into a vivid, low-proof New Orleans original.
- [Humuhumunukunukuapua'a](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/humuhumunukunukuapua-a.md): Gin, pineapple, lemon, orgeat, and Peychaud's make Marcovaldo Dionysos's vivid modern tiki sour.
- [La Louisiane](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/la-louisiane.md): A deeply aromatic New Orleans rye cocktail layered with sweet vermouth, Bénédictine, absinthe, and Peychaud’s bitters.
- [Mammoth Tusk](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mammoth-tusk.md): Blanc agricole, green alpine liqueur, tropical fruit, almond, and falernum form a huge modern tiki sour under a vivid Peychaud’s float.
- [Metropole Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/metropole-cocktail.md): George Kappeler’s equal brandy-and-French-vermouth cocktail layers three tiny sweet, anise, and orange-bitter accents over an unusually dry core.
- [Sazerac](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sazerac.md): Cognac, sugar, and Peychaud’s bitters served in an absinthe-rinsed glass.
- [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.
- [Vieux Carré](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/vieux-carre.md): Rye, Cognac, and vermouth layered with Bénédictine and Peychaud’s bitters.
- [Yale Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/yale-cocktail.md): Old Tom gin, two bitters, lemon oil, and a small soda charge preserve the original 1895 Yale as a brisk pre-Martini cocktail rather than a later blue namesake.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/peychauds-bitters
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/peychauds-bitters-b9f1468c.webp
- Source: https://www.sazerac.com/our-brands/sazerac-brands/peychauds.html