However, a very common ingredient in most bitters is gentian (Gentiana spp.), a flowering plant with a long medicinal history. Gentiana lutea is the most common type of gentian in drinks.

Common bittering agents used in bitters recipes include wormwood or gentian; tinctures are also commonly single-ingredient infusions, whereas most recipes for bitters contain multiple ingredients.

Peychaud’s bitters has a bright-red color and has a 35% ABV. Ingredients include gentian root, cloves, anise, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Peychaud’s has anise aromas and flavors, with less ...

Most digestive bitters are concentrated blends of different herbs, roots, and barks like dandelion root, ginger root, gentian root, and burdock root. Some might also have flavor-enhancing ...

To be clear, Campari itself, like many other bitters, bittersweet liqueurs and aromatized wines, almost certainly contains some variety of gentian, a plant that’s a component of a huge number of ...

All the company knows is that, like many another brand of bitters, Angostura contains gentian and rum. Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, an army surgeon under Bliicher at Waterloo, brewed the ...

For instance, Vena’s uses white pine from owners Steve and Johanna Corman’s coastal property in Cushing for a Maine Pine Bitters, which also includes spruce, rosemary, grapefruit and lemon peel, ...

The largest threat to bottle gentian is dry soils and drought. The rhizomatous roots are bitter-tasting to many mammalian species. However, deer will occasionally browse upon the tender tops ...