- Amer Boudreau - Jamie Boudreau
- Clove Bitters - Alex Smith
This recipe produces Bitters very similar to the original Amer Picon (before 1970s formula change), used in many vintage cocktail recipes, but no longer distributed in the USA. Read about Jamie Boudreau's process to replicate the elusive Amer Picon (shown below) in an experts' side-by-side comparison.
Amer Boudreau
Jamie Boudreau
Ingredients3 bottles Amaro Ramazzotti
7.50 cups orange tincture
0.75 bottle Stirrings Blood Orange bitters
0.75 (1-liter) bottle Evian (about 25.4-oz)
Notes: Brooklyn Cocktail recipe
Preparation
Place all ingredients into a container and stir. Seal and allow ingredients to get to know each other for at least one week.
Filter, bottle and refrigerate.
Alex Smith concocted Clove Bitters and uses them in his seasonal Belsnickel Cocktail.
Clove Bitters
Alex Smith
Ingredients5 cloves
1 (4.0-oz) bottle Angostura® Bitters
Preparation
Drop the cloves into a bitters bottle ad let sit for 2 days. Shake bottle several times a day, before straining out.
—Alex Smith, Honor, Emeryville, California
Last Updated December 1, 2012
