Ok, not quite bitter but bemused.
The oversized label is one thing. It’s meant to represent a ‘laid back Caribbean attitude’ apparently. Hmmm.
But the thing that annoys me about the product is the fact that as soon as the bottle is inverted to any degree it, ahem, ejaculates the contents out with some force. Bearing in mind that this is meant to be something that is measured with a degree of precision this seems something of a design flaw, and not a ‘charming’ one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angostura_bitters
And you can tell if it’s an old bottle by the damp browny coloured paper sleeve.
Not the most appealing look.
Ponse-alert: Very nice with a single bourbon, red martini and a stack of ice
(Glittery straw and cocktail umbrella entirely optional)
Yep – the product itself is lovely. My comment is solely about the packaging. A sensitive packaging redesign could easily retain the key features of the brand while binning the frankly silly elements.
For the small measures called for, it should perhaps be delivered in a pipette
indubitably.
I’m a big fan of orange bitters. Try replacing Angostura bitters with orange in an old fashioned. Mmmm.
I have no clue what you guys are talking about.
Fair point! Angostura bitters are a product that can be used to enhance (by literally a drop or two) alcoholic drinks – probably most famously used in the ‘Old-Fashioned’ cocktail – a mix of whisky, simple syrup and bitters.
My OP was about my annoyance over obviously, ahem, old fashioned (but not in a good way) packaging still being used in the 21st century.
Ah.
I bloody love angostura bitters: lovely in a tonic water if you are giving hooch some time off for bad behaviour. (NB, it is actually pretty alcoholic in its own right, were you to have a full glass of it, rather than just a couple of shakes.) It is about the only “non-alcoholic” drink I relish. I agree with the o.p. about how it literally spurts out the bottle, as much of it on the counter as in your glass.
Lemon, lime and bitters is a popular drink in Oz. Lemonade, lime cordial and Angostura bitters. ‘ansum. Mrs thep left a trail of baffled barpersons in her wake by demanding it in pubs when she first arrived in Blighty,
Most famously used by old salts in pink gins, shirley?
Gin and bitters. Pink gin.
Biggle’s drink.