The Drinks That Broke Bitters
Fifteen dashes of Angostura was just the beginning. How a team of rogue bartenders made jiggering bitters the norm.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Alexa Bendek
Deacon Blues
In her spin on an Old-Fashioned Sarah Morrissey opts for the smoky hint of mezcal alongside overproof bourbon as the base.
- story: Frances Yackel
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Angostura Colada
Based on the structure of a traditional Piña Colada (rum, pineapple and coconut), Zac Overman's riff on the Piña Colada replaces most of the rum with spicy Angostura bitters.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Created and Forgotten at Sea: Pink Gin
Perhaps not as sophisticated as the Martini or as sexy as the Negroni, the Pink Gin has fallen from most gin drinkers' radars. Brad Thomas Parsons muses on the obscure…
- story: Brad Thomas Parsons
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Pink Gin
Just two ingredients: gin and bitters. Anything but demure, the Pink Gin was a favorite of the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century, as bitters worked its magic curing everything…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Ed Anderson
