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FLAVORS
The effect of Bitters in a drink is to balance, round out and complex the flavor. Your mouth has taste receptors for sour, sweet, and salty; AND it has a receptor for bitter. The more receptors triggered as a drink tickles on the way down, the more interesting the drink. You know you have used Bitters correctly when the person enjoying the drink says, "Wow, there is something going on in the background of that drink". Consider that a slam-dunk.
Why in the world would anyone want to put something called "Bitters" into a drink? In fact, Bitters are critical in the best drinks. The first publication of a bartenders' guide which included cocktail recipes was in 1862 - How to Mix Drinks; The Bon Vivant's Companion, by "Professor" Jerry Thomas. In addition to recipes for Punches, Sours, Slings, and the like, were 10 recipes for drinks called "Cocktails".
A key ingredient which differentiated cocktails from other drinks was the use of Bitters.

All Fee Brothers Bitters come in our iconic hand-wrapped paper packaging and feature a convenience dasher cap for easy dispensing.

Ancient Aztecs would celebrate with a bitter beverage made of cacao beans, peppers and spices. Use a few dashes of Fee's Aztec Chocolate Bitters to expand the flavor of cocktails.

Black Walnut Bitters bring a robust nut flavor to the spice rack behind your bar.

Boker's style Cardamom Bitters is an essential ingredient for many Pre-Prohibition vintage cocktails.

Use a few dashes of Fee's Celery Bitters to add an interesting background flavor to your cocktails.

Cherry Bitters is a member of the fruit bitters family. Use a few dashes to enhance cocktails with its strong fruit flavor.

Use a few dashes of Fee's Cranberry Bitters to add an interesting background flavor to your cocktails.

Oak barrels which aged Old Tom Gin, take on a second life at Fee Brothers. They now age Orange Bitters, mingling it with gin-soaked oak. Crafting Orange Bitters has just been elevated to new heights.

Use a few dashes of Fee's Grapefruit Bitters to add an interesting background flavor to your cocktails.

Use a few dashes of Fee's Lemon Bitters to add an interesting background flavor to your cocktails.

Combines the bright flavor of Lime with the botanicals often found in gin. A lovely addition to your summer cocktails.

Fee Brothers Mint Bitters may be used as the principal or subordinate flavor in a wide variety of foods and drinks.

Blackstrap is the darkest molasses left once all sugar has been extracted from sugar cane. Fee Brothers has combined this robust molasses flavor with nutmeg and coffee for a historical Caribbean taste.

A few dashes add a savory zest to a huge variety of drinks and foods. This highly aromatic product is blended from the finest ingredients from around the world.

Use a few dashes of Fee's Peach Bitters to add an interesting background flavor to your cocktails.

Fee Brothers Plum Bitters is a fruity blend of plum and spices, reminiscent of the flavor of British plum pudding. Add a few dashes to recipes to create new depths of flavor.

Using flavors available in 1800's America, Fee Brothers developed Rhubarb Bitters for an authentic historical taste.

Toasted Almond Bitters have an almond nose and a bitter edge. Best in tropical cocktails, or amaretto flavored beverages.

A delicious addition to the Fee Brothers Bitters collection, Turkish Tobacco’s sun-cured tobacco warmth elevates the balance and complexity of your favorite drinks and spirits. With hints of coffee, nutmeg, and clove, this robust tobacco addition works well with bourbon, rum, mezcal and more.

The fine flavor of this product is obtained principally from the skins of oranges grown in the West Indies.

Freshly emptied oak whiskey barrels from America's best distillers, interiors charred and soaked with aged whiskey, are used by Fee Brothers to age aromatic bitters. Savor the result of the mingling of these great flavors.