Recipes
We made bitters by creating tinctures from a large number of different botanicals, spices, and barks. These involved a mix of bittering agents (like gentian, black walnut leaf, quassia, burdock) and flavoring or aromatic agents (like cinnamon, or chocolate. A few agents (like hops) do double duty. The tinctures were all of various strengths.
We mixed and sampled bitters over a number evenings to try out many different combinations until we found exactly the right combinations.
A few of the ingredients are special:
- The hop bitters are made from the hops we grew at Extraordinary Least Squares and at Noah and Sarah Meyerhan's house in Ballard.
- The mulberry was something we bought on our bike trip to Hunza Valley in Pakistan in September 2016.
- The chocolate is made from cocoa nibs from local chocolate producer Theo. We bought them, with money, inside the store, in Fremont.
Citrus Bitters
- Grapefruit [10]
- Orange [5]
- Mulberry (brought from Hunza) [3]
- Starfruit [3]
- Coriander [1/2]
- Cardamom [1/10]
- Mixed bittering agents (gentian, quassia, wild cherry bark) [2]
- Sugar (by mass) [3]
