If you’re a fan of cocktails, you’ve probably noticed the bottle with an oversized white paper label perched near your bartender’s station. This is Angostura bitters, the quintessential cocktail ...

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They’re the zipper on the jacket, the key to the door, the fingerprint that makes or breaks the case. They’re usually the smallest component of the drink in your glass, but if you leave them out, you ...

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.

Cocktail expert Adam Lantheaume is here to tell the bitters truth. Making drinks without a dash or two of bitters is like cooking without seasoning. Rhubarb, macadamia nut, papaya, chocolate bitters?

Meet the Angostura Sour. It originates from “the humid shores of Trinidad,” wrote Charles H. Baker Jr., wherein occasionally “stomachs stage sit-down strikes and view all thought of food—present or ...

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 ...

Let’s say there are two kinds of cocktails. One kind tries to charm you with subtlety and nuance, each ingredient briefly highlighted on the palate before handing off to another, the whole experience ...