Markz Pazuniak and Kirk Estopinal's wholly unique take on a Pimm's Cup calls for two full ounces of Peychaud's bitters.
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There’s a Bitter Cocktail for Everyone (Recipes)
Ready to discover your next favorite cocktail? See where yours lies on our Bitter Cocktail Matrix, and find all of our top bitter recipes below.
The Ferrari, a potent 50/50 split of Fernet Branca and Campari, can be taken as a shot or sipped slowly. It can also be used in amaro-friendly …
This Negroni cocktail recipe uses mezcal instead of gin, Bonal instead of sweet vermouth and Cynar instead of Campari.
You really have to like Campari to appreciate the austere and quite bitter Shakerato cocktail recipe, but Naren Young makes it approachable.
Perhaps the most riffed-upon cocktail in the tiki canon, the Mai Tai serves as the inspiration for Jeremy Oertel’s decidedly bitter spin. Intrigued …
The essential ingredient in a buck cocktail is ginger ale or ginger beer. From there, just add a spirit, some citrus and perhaps a dash of bitters. …
Michael McIlroy's Rome With a View falls somewhere between an afternoon appropriate Collins and an Americano. Where an Americano is built with bitter …
This radler has an Austrian grapefruit-flavored radler and lemon juice. It is also laced with bittersweet Campari, yielding a kind of sudsy Americano.
This Jungle Bird omits rum, putting focus on amari as well as cold-brew coffee. Campari, pineapple juice and sea salt add more complexity.
The Bitter Handshake was the very first drink Andrew Bohrer ever served me. He had been making a name for himself around Seattle as an inventive …
Audrey Sanders' Manhattan-like recipe has an extra Italian kick courtesy of the artichoke-based amaro, Cynar.
Zac Sorensen uses Cynar and Punt e Mes to accent the American Pale Ale. The Hop Skip Jump is served in a punch mug and garnished with half an orange …
A Negroni with a neo-tiki twist thanks to a blackstrap rum in place of gin and the addition of Fernet. It was inspired by the Jungle Bird.
In this cocktail recipe, Pamplemousse stands up to three hard-hitting ingredients: blackstrap rum, overproof brandy and amaro.
Three bitter amari, including Fernet-Branca, get amped up with aromatic French vermouth and juniper-rich gin in this cocktail recipe.
