For right around $10, you can pick up a four-ounce bottle of Angostura bitters, which will totally transform your homemade drinks and will, as a bonus, last for a long, long time.

The old-school brown and boozy cocktail is classically made with rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, and Angostura bitters. Spirit and bitters recommendation: Parsons typically reaches for Bulleit rye ...

Yes, even the old-timers of the 1880s considered it to be an old-school drink. Since those sepia-toned days, ... Step 2 Wet it down with Angostura bitters and a short splash of club soda.

Nino Padova writes in Liquor.com that "technically, a cocktail is not a cocktail unless it contains bitters . . . a 1803 periodical [notes that a cocktail] must comprise four ingredients: spirits ...

We all go through phases in life. Like baking sourdough bread or regrowing scallions on windowsills. Or wearing hot pants (hey, they’re back!). You may have gone through a cocktail phase ...