Choklad bitters
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Lime juice brightens and lifts the mix-up for a reinvigorating and rich profile that will definitely leave you wanting more.
Ingredients
45ml dark rum
20ml coffee liqueur/espresso
3 drops of chocolate bitters
15ml lime juice
15ml coconut cream
Cinnamon stick (optional garnish)
Method
Half-fill your glass with crushed ice, and pour everything in.
You can use a swizzle stick, or barspoon, but you simply need to submerge the utensil below the ice and hold it between your palms. Great for tasting any whiskey or other spirit you might wa...
For liqueurs, they pair well with coffee liqueur and orange liqueur.
Use a fine mesh strainer lined with cheesecloth and placed over a wide mouth funnel to strain the bitters into a clean jar.
Clean the strainer, replace with a second/clean piece of cheesecloth, and place the strainer over a narrow mouthed funnel, decanting the bitters into small amber glasses, preferably with dropper lids.
Kakaobutter und dunkle Schokolade verführen die Nase. It uses primarily soft, floral flavors, allowing the chocolate flavor of the bitters to dominate the drink.
6 drops Woodford Reserve Chocolate Bitters
0.75 oz Lillet Blanc
0.25 oz St Germain Elderflower Liqueur
0.5 oz White Brandy (I use Copper&Kings Immature, but a pisco would also work well)
1.5 oz Ketel One Grapefruit and Rose
Stir in mixing glass with ice, strain into a martini glass, and mist with a spray of rose water.
Each has 6 ounces of holding capacity.
Fügen Sie einige Spritzer einem Manhattan oder Negroni hinzu, um mit der Erkundung seines komplexen Geschmacks zu beginnen, oder verwenden Sie ihn in einem Tequila Old Fashioned Cocktail, um die pflanzlichen Eigenschaften der Spirituose hervorzuheben.
What Are Chocolate Bitters?
Mezcal Mole Manhattan
Another Manhattan riff, this one leans fully into the Mexican flavor profile of the bitters.
3 dashes Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters
0.5 oz Ancho Reyes Chili Liqueur
0.5 oz Lillet Blanc
2 oz Mezcal
Stir in a mixing glass with ice, strain into a with ice, and garnish with a skewer of whiskey cherries and a lime twist.
Sinful Valley Smash
Shifting gears to a shaken drink, either style of chocolate bitters can work here to add breadth of flavor, rather than being a focal point.
2 dashes chocolate bitters
2 strawberries
3 large basil leaves
0.5 oz simple syrup
0.5 oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz Lillet Blanc
1 oz Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth
1 oz Scarlet Ibis Rum
Muddle strawberries and basil with simple syrup and lemon juice in a shaker, add remaining ingredients and ice and shake vigorously.
They also taste great with other bitters, such as , cherry bitters, or cardamom bitters.
Of course, they also go well with mint, chocolate mint being one of the more famous flavor pairings out there.
How Many Options Are There For Chocolate Bitters?
Before I get to the recipes, let’s talk about the range of available chocolate bitters, because it turns out there are a lot of them at this point.
The Bitter Truth Chocolate Bitters sind eine moderne Art aromatischer Cocktail Bitters mit intensiven Aromen von frisch gerösteten Kakaobohnen.
Pure chocolate bitters can also be used in place of crème de cacao in drink recipes if you don’t want that extra sweetness.
Whether due to taste memory or to how they interact with our taste buds, I tend to find that drinks with chocolate bitters require less added sweetness from simple syrup or other sweeteners than would normally be expected.
In Baking
Being such a great and potent flavor, a dash or two in whipped cream makes a great topping for cakes, potentially paired with , cardamom, or mint.
What Do Chocolate Bitters Pair Well With?
Chocolate bitters pair great with dark spirits, particularly whiskey, but can also go great with rum.
Strain into a with ice and garnish with a basil leaf.
There are a lot of variations of this, some leaning towards coffee, others whiskey, and others rum! Am Gaumen zeigen sich Aromen von Vanille, Zimt, Chilischoten und Bittertönen von Enzian und Wermut.
The Hella Mexican Bitters were too mild.
In the pure chocolate group, there was a split decision between the Woodford Reserve Chocolate and Strongwater Cacao.
The Angostura Cacao bitters really don’t fit in either group, as they are chocolate paired with the traditional baking spices of Angostura Bitters.
Dunkel, reich und komplex. Bittere Schokolade verführt den Gaumen, ergänzt durch Töne von dunklen Schokoladen-, Zimt- und Gewürzaromen, die von klassischen europäischen Bitterkräutern unterstützt werden.
The Bitter Truth Chocolate Bitters passen hervorragend zu süßem Wermut und allen Arten von gereiften Spirituosen wie Whiskey, Rum, Tequila und Brandy.
Now for the swizzle!
Seal the jar, shake it, and rest it in a cool dark place for one week, shaking daily.
After the first week, add the cassia bark [or cinnamon stick], cardamom, gentian, wild cherry bark, and wormwood.
Seal the jar, shake it, and rest it at room temperature for one more week, shaking daily.
After a total of two weeks, taste the bitters daily to see when they reach a desirable flavour profile.
I’ve long favored Bittermens Mole Bitters as my go-to chocolate bitters, but for this article I surveyed the field and chose a set of 6 different chocolate bitters:
So Which Chocolate Bitters are the Best?
The Soda Water test
To taste all of these, I diluted a dash of each in 2 oz of soda water to get a sense of the flavor they would add to a cocktail.
In this Manhattan riff, mole bitters combine with Solerno as the accent flavor.
5 drops 20% saline solution (you can skip this, but it’s easy to make and really makes the drink shine)
2 dashes Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters
0.25 oz Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth
0.25 oz Solerno orange liqueur
0.5 oz El Mayor Reposado Tequila
0.5 oz High West Double Rye Whiskey
1 oz Cedar Ridge Malted Rye Whiskey
Stir in mixing glass with ice, strain into a cocktail , and garnish with a couple of whiskey soaked cocktail cherries.
Chocolate Bitters Cocktail
It’s a boring name for a drink, but this recipe is really about letting the pure cocoa bitters shine through.
Seal well and store in a cool, dark place.
Tiefe Schokoladennoten werden von klassischen Bitternoten unterstützt und mit einem Hauch von Würze akzentuiert.