MAX BITTER - AROMATIC: The Bold, Dark Complexity (4oz)

Turn up the intensity of your favorite spirit-forward cocktails. MAX BITTER Aromatic Bitters offer a rich, multidimensional profile—marrying the earthy warmth of coffee and cacao nibs with a vibrant backbone of baking spices, dried herbs, citrus, and toasted peppercorns. It is the essential "finishing touch" for cocktails that demand a moody, deep, and long-lasting flavor structure.

Quick Highlights

• Rich, Earthy Profile: A complex union of cacao and coffee that adds immediate depth to bourbon, rye, and aged spirits.

• Botanical Balance: Balanced by aromatic baking spices, bright citrus peels, and a sharp, peppery finish for perfect equilibrium.

• Essential for Stirred Classics: Crafted to bring out the best in heavy-hitting cocktails that need a dark, spiced foundation.

• Small-Batch Quality: Meticulously prepared to ensure high-potency intensity in every dash.

Product Details

• Key Ingredients: Baking spices, dried herbs, coffee, cacao nibs, citrus peels, peppercorns, bitter roots, and barks.

• Best For: Adding gravitas to an Old Fashioned, Sazerac, or Manhattan.

• Crafted: Small-batch, high-potency bitters.

Recipes

Old Fashioned
2 oz aged spirit (whiskey, tequila, rum or gin)
1/4 oz sweetener (such as the C&S Spiced Demerara)
4-6 drops Max Bitter Aromatic

Add all ingredients to mixing glass with ice. Stir for five seconds and strain over fresh ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with an expressed orange peel.

Black Manhattan
2 oz aged spirit (whiskey, tequila, rum or gin)
1 oz Italian Amaro (Averna, Montenegro, Braulio)
3 drops Max Bitter Aromatic + 3 drops Max Bitter Citrus

Add all ingredients to mixing glass with ice. Stir for five seconds and strain into a coupe glass or over fresh ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with an expressed orange peel and/or brandied cherry.

Queen's Park Swizzle
2 ounces demerara or aged rum
1 oz lime juice
3/4 ounce simple syrup (we suggested C&S Mint & Lemon Verbena)
4-6 drops of Max Bitter Aromatic
8-10 mint leaves

Add all ingredients minus bitters to cocktail shaker with ice. Shake hard for five seconds and strain over crushed ice (pebble-style) into a Collins glass. Garnish with a freshly smacked mint sprig and the bitters drizzled on top of the ice.

Ingredients

alcohol, water, sugar, coffee, cacao nibs, citrus, baking spices, bitter herbs, and peppercorns