Beloved by bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts for generations, bitters make drinks taste better. Ranging from age-old concoctions to new lively iterations, these potent potions enhance your favorite ...

While a smooth old fashioned cocktail recipe is a great starting point for practicing at-home bartenders, even the classics deserve a bit of improvisation. The potent flavor extracts known as bitters ...

Cocktail Queries is a Paste series that examines and answers basic, common questions that drinkers may have about mixed drinks, cocktails and spirits. Check out every entry in the series to date.

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I have about seven bottles of cocktail bitters ...

Since then, he’s been creating another new cocktail menu for The Parlor, which will include six new recipes and should be ready in a couple of weeks. One of the cocktails he has planned includes ...

If you haven’t been building your bitters collection, it’s time to start. Bill and Lill Buitenhuys, the couple behind AZ Bitters Lab, explain that chefs have spice racks and bartenders equip ...

Feeling bitter? Get in line. These days anyone who takes their drinking seriously is getting intimate with bitters. Fueled largely by the hard liquor and artisanal cocktail booms, bitters — those ...

For people who don’t partake of cocktails, bitters can be a mystery. “They’ve only been known by the imbibing population,” said Sara Lund, who owns two downtown Salt Lake City cocktail bars and is the ...

Local producers of cocktail bitters and digestifs see potential for growth with both craft cocktail fans and those looking to ...