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Six low-key, high-impact recipes to elevate any cocktail.

The trio of Yamazaki bitters are unlike anything else on the market. Here’s how to use them.

With home-grown flavors including yuzu, shiso and “umami,” Yamazaki’s line of bitters represents a new frontier for the category.

The pioneering bitters company has survived the Civil War, Prohibition and the dawn of the renaissance. But how, exactly?

A bold, yet minimalist combination of Jamaican rum, grapefruit liqueur, quinine-fortified wine and lemon.

Bitter meets tropical.

Fifteen dashes of Angostura was just the beginning. How a team of rogue bartenders made jiggering bitters the norm.

Blending existing bitters brands can offer depth and complexity to a variety of cocktails.

Dozens of brands are still competing to become the archetypal orange bitters.

How did the iconic label’s recipes—and “whack-job, world-unto-itself word mosaic”—come to be?

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