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Every single bottle arrived scuffed up and damaged. This was after I had to reorder because they had been too damaged to deliver. Such a shame, as these were meant to be a gift
This is such a great assortment of bitters for the home cocktail aficionado. My husband and I have so thoroughly enjoyed experimenting adding different flavors to our cocktails. Just a heads up: the mint bitters do contain green dye, which will affect the color of your drink.
Mostly used to enhance water. We've bought many flavors in the past but the 12 pack was a better deal and gave us a few new ones to try. Plum was a particular favorite. The only disappointing one was celery but we'll try it when we make soup. Might be a great fit.
Three things to keep in mind: - Everything in here is fairly sweet. 'Bitters' is a historical term, but these are really not very bitter. For instance, Regan's Orange Bitters are a much more bitter orange flavor (like concentrated peel) than the orange here. - If you limit yourself to just alcoholic drinks you're cheating yourself. I have a Sodastream, and adding these 'bitters' to the carbonated water tastes fantastic. - You're not saving a lot on this. At current price, $100/12 = $8.33 per bottle. But if you get the free shipping suddenly it's reasonable. And having the selection is fairly liberating.
Once you have the set of 12 it's time to figure out what to do with them. Your flavors are: - Fruit: Peach, Lemon, Grapefruit, Cherry, Rhubarb, Cranberry, Orange. Yes, technically rhubarb isn't a fruit. - Other: Mint, Plum, Old Fashioned, Celery, Aztec Chocolate.
The fruit flavors speak for themselves. If you can't think of a hundred things to do with these (at a minimum, fuzzy navel, or gin + flavor + tonic water) you shouldn't be ordering this in the first place. Imagine concentrated flavor + sweet and you know what you're getting.
The others are more interesting. The mint bitters contribute greatly to a mojito. Celery works fantastic with tomato juice or bloody mary mix. The plum is very cinnamony, and the Old Fashioned is like the plum but with extra heavy spices.
The Aztec Chocolate Bitters are fairly disgusting on their own, but when paired with a good spiced rum like The Kraken are quite amazing, and though I haven't tried it yet I imagine they'd work well with a mole' sauce.
So to summarize - you can't do anything with these on their own, but that would be like drinking the output of a duck press. You are buying a set of 12 flavor enhancers, and this set is great for that. And you only need a few shakes, so each bottle will last for years.
The majority of these bitters are great. I was disappointed in the “mint” bitters which are actually peppermint and taste more like a strong peppermint extract than a bitter. Saddly they made my mint julip taste like mouthwash; however, they would probably taste great in a hot chocolate.
While I won't say Fee Brothers is the best when I compare Angostura Orange to Fee Orange, they are definitely still good. And even better because they have some real variety here. Man, I wanted Rhubarb bitters, and when I saw this I had to get them all. What sucks is, I had to then buy cardamom bitters separately since they don't come in the set. What is great, is that mine all came as 5 oz., even though I thought the product page said they were each 4 oz.
Bitters last forever. I have some from back in my hidden bar in my parent's house from my pre-teen days. They don't go bad, but you never get through them, either, so this is a set with much to give for years to come.
I ordered this. Two of the bottles arrived damaged and ruined a few of the labels of the other bottles. Amazon replaced it for me for free, without me having to send the rest back, what with the liquid and broken class and all. I would say 5 or 6 of the bottles were salvageable, and maybe another 5 had stained labels which wouldn't have looked good on display. And 2 bottles had cracked. So Amazon sent me a replacement, but sent me 12-pack of Fee Brothers grenadine by mistake. I called and complained and they sent out a replacement order again, without asking me to return the grenadine. The new shipment of bitters arrived just fine. So now I have 18 bottles of bitters with clean labels, 5 bottles of bitters with ruined/smeared/smudged labels, and 12 bottles of grenadine.