Cocktails with Coriander bitters
Coriander bitters are a flavoured cocktail bitters built on an alcohol-and-water solution of botanical extracts, with coriander seed as the defining aromatic.
ABV44%The strength is high but negligible in practice because bitters are used only in dashes.
Taste profile
Bright, citrus-tinged coriander seed aroma over a moderately bitter, concentrated botanical base.
How it's used
A few dashes season a drink with coriander aroma and a medium bitter lift; the ingredient is highly concentrated, so the volume added is very small and never a base measure.
Substitutes for Coriander bitters
Another cocktail bitters on the same alcohol-and-water-plus-botanical framework can stand in when only generic bitter lift is wanted, but nothing reproduces the coriander character once that aroma is the point.
Description
Made by extracting aromatic botanicals into a base where alcohol acts as both solvent and preservative alongside water, this style is distinguished by coriander (the seed of Coriandrum sativum) as its lead aromatic. Alcoholic strength across bitters varies widely by brand and style rather than following a single category figure.
