Saigon Cinnamon & Walnut Bitters Recipe

Here's a kind of "starter" bitters recipe that is easy to make and super versatile. This recipe most closely resembles a basic/traditional approach to making aromatic bitters — big baking spices like cinnamon, cloves, and allspice with orange peel and raisins backed up by lots of bittering agents. If you just use neutral grain spirits as the base alcohol (lose the whiskey, vermouth, and barenjager) and subtract the walnuts, black walnut hulls, hazelnuts, coffee beans, and cut back on the cinnamon, you've got a general "base" recipe. Click here for the Lesson in How to Make Bitters story. Click here for the Highland Sage cocktail recipe.