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MAX BITTER - CRESCENT CITY: The Authentic Creole Essential (4oz)

MAX BITTER - CRESCENT CITY: The Authentic Creole Essential (4oz)

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MAX BITTER - CRESCENT CITY: The Authentic Creole Essential (4oz)

MAX BITTER - CRESCENT CITY: The Authentic Creole Essential (4oz)

Sale price  $9.95 Regular price $17.95
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Bring the soul of New Orleans to your home bar. Our Crescent City Bitters are a masterful tribute to the iconic Creole style, blending warm baking spices, tart hibiscus and cranberry, and a complex array of Asian botanicals. Finished with bitter roots and barks, this is the essential "finishing touch" for creating deep, savory, and perfectly balanced classic cocktails.

Quick Highlights

  • Heritage Flavor Profile: A sophisticated, multi-layered blend that captures the historic spirit of Crescent City mixology.

  • Complex Botanical Depth: Infused with baking spices, vibrant citrus peel, and a tannic, floral backbone of hibiscus and cranberry.

  • The Professional’s Choice: Designed to provide the necessary structure and savory contrast for stirred, spirit-forward drinks.

  • Small-Batch Quality: Meticulously crafted to ensure consistency and intensity in every dash.

Product Details

  • Key Ingredients: Baking spices, hibiscus, cranberry, Asian herbs, lemon peel, and bitter roots/barks.

  • Best For: Sazeracs, Vieux Carré, La Louisiane, and any stirred classic requiring a savory, spiced edge.

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

Pro Recipe: The Classic Sazerac

  • Ingredients: 2 oz Rye whiskey or Cognac, 1/4 oz C&S Oleo Saccharum, 4–6 dashes Max Bitter Crescent City, Absinthe (for rinse).

  • Method: Rinse a chilled rocks glass with absinthe. In a separate mixing glass, combine spirit, sweetener, and bitters with ice. Stir for 10 seconds, strain into the prepared glass, and garnish with an expressed lemon peel.

Ingredients

alcohol, water, sugar, mint, hibiscus, baking spices, lemon peel, orange peel, bitter herbs, cranberries, and peppercorns.

Meet the maker: Cocktail and Sons

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