AngosturaAromatic Bitters 16.0 OZ(Pack of 3)

items received in excellent condition. packed well, no breakage. delivered on time

Most people don't use enough bitters when making drinks that call for them. I was in a hotel bar the other day and I ordered an Old Fashioned, and, being the kind of bar that this bar was, this meant that I had to walk the bartender through how to make an Old Fashioned.In case you're unfamiliar, an Old Fashioned is: sugar, bitters, water, booze, built in the glass and iced. The booze is usually rye or bourbon, but you can make it with anything alcoholic. If you make it with bourbon, garnish it with orange peel and maybe a cherry. If rye, lemon peel. Tequila would probably work with lime, but I have never tried it. The Old Fashioned is the King of Cocktails, because there is nowhere to hide, and yet it's hard to screw it up so badly that it's a problem. Even the popular method of smashing up an orange slice and a nuclear cherry in the bottom of the glass yields a good, if less good, drink.Anyway, so there I am in the hotel bar talking this girl -- who was eager to learn more about making actual drinks rather than just the six variants on Tequila-and-Sprite that they had on the menu and were calling 'Mojitos' for some unfathomable reason -- and I cannot actually convince her to *dash* the bitters in there at all. She's just kind of vibrating the bottle over the glass, trying to get one or two tiny drops to fall off there.This isn't the way to do it. It's all in the wrist. Hold the glass at an angle in your left hand (or right hand, if you are left-handed) and using your right hand (or your left hand, if you are left-handed) shake that bottle and fire the bitters into the glass, at least two good shots -- more if the bottle is full (the dashes will be smaller because the bottle contents have less room to accelerate), maybe one dash if the bottle is big and almost empty. Some whiskies demand more bitters, others can only stand less. You must discover these things through experimentation. It may take a while. Sometimes you might even like to hold the glass in your right hand and the bottle in your left (if you are right-handed), to see if the drink tastes any different. It's worth a try.The point I'm trying to make here, though, is that if you drink drinks with bitters in them at all often -- the Old Fashioned and the Manhattan and its variants are the main ones here, but there's very little that's not improved by the addition of Angostura bitters -- then those tiny bottles they sell at the grocery store are either going to put you in the poor house, or subtly encourage you to not use enough bitters. I have one excellent recipe for punch that calls for 1.25 ounces of Angostura. Get the 16-oz bottles by all means.When I bought these, they were $1.25 a ounce, and the best deal available for Angostura bitters in the United States. The price varies, though, and there are always about a dozen different Ango multi-packs being offered on Amazon, so make sure you look at the different options for a good price. Inspect 'em as soon as they show up, though, because I wound up with one bottle where the cap had slightly backed off and got bitters all over the place (see pictures). Only a minuscule amount was missing from the bottle, but it would have eventually been a terrible mess had I not discovered and taken care of things right away.

Superb

It's a LOT of bitters! I could probably supply half the bartenders in town for the next year or so!

Good product, and delivered fairly quickly, but packaging was not good - all three bottles arrived wet with bitters all over the labels.

If you want angostura - this is the real thing. If not ...

Yas Queen you know this stuff is the best.

Only way to buy these. In 16oz bottles.