While many people think of, say, gin or whiskey when they think of cocktails, several of these drinks just wouldn't be the ...

Yet for all their importance in the arsenal of a great drinks professional, bitters remain relatively underused at home by a large swath of the cocktail-making public. For right around $10 ...

However, that interaction led me down a rabbit hole to learn about all the amazingly underutilized uses for bitters, which tend to be confined to cocktails and, more recently, non-alcoholic drinks.

The classical method for making the cocktail often calls for a sugar cube, to be dashed in bitters and then dissolved in water, but you can combine the same ingredients via simple syrup or gomme ...

“Even crappy bars that I worked in before the cocktail revolution always had a bottle of Angostura bitters behind the bar,” says longtime bartender Leandro DiMonriva. He’s also one of the ...