Cocktails with Licorice bitters
Licorice bitters are a herbal cocktail bitters flavored mainly with licorice root, used in dashes.
ABV44%The alcohol is negligible in the drink, since bitters are used only in dashes.
How it's used
It brings anise and licorice over a herbal bitterness, with no sugar. Old Fashioneds, dark-spirit stirred drinks and anything already carrying anise take it well.
Substitutes for Licorice bitters
Peychaud’s bitters
The easiest stand-in to find, used the same way. It brings a clear anise note and tints the liquid pink.
Use a dash of aromatic bitters plus a drop of liqueur for each required dash. The bitters provide spice while the anise adds a licorice note.
A single drop gives the right anise note. Adding any more easily takes over all other flavors.
Storage
It is one of the longest-lived bottles on the shelf. Cold may cloud it as the anise comes out of solution; it clears again once warm. Sunlight does more harm than time, so keep it out of the light.
