Rosemary Bitter is a very full herbal bitter.
Rosemary Bitter is a fantastic ingredient. It stands out in any cocktail and dosed heavy or lightly and it brings a lot to the nose of the cocktail but also a lot of taste. There are similarity’s to using rosemary in cooking – but at the same time it can actually be used much more versitally than you might think.
Rosemary has a very distinct taste and smell – and when we started doing a recipe for the bitter we found that it goes really well with earth notes. It is actually in the very deep end of the bitter scale. But also with a lot of green spices that gives it many notes to play with in different cocktails.
It goes well with very few drops in a gin & tonic especially if you garnish with rosemary as well. But it can do so much more if you add it to alcohol heavy cocktails it can really bring a whole new layer to a cocktail.
Claus Seiers thoughts on the Rosemary Bitter:
“I love cooking with rosemary! I love using rosemary as a cocktail ingredient – smashing it, as a garnish or burning it. I am a rosemary fanatic. When building the bitter I quickly found that it needs some dark spices and roots to bring the best of the notes. The recipe was quite quickly put together and when ever I tried to fine tune it I ended up with it not being better than my original attempt – so I just left it alone and played with it in cocktails.”
Rosemary has a high level of essential oils and it makes the product appear cloudy in the bottle and dropper due to the fact that we don’t filter out the oils to keep as much flavor as possible. Residue can occur in the bottle as we filter our products as little as possible to keep them as flavorful as possible.
