Bitters Garnish

Bitters Stencil

 

Ahhh Bitters…. how I love you. Now, you have a wonderful new use, garnishing. A lot of garnishes are used as both a tool to make a drink look better as well as add another layer of flavor. This is a picture of a cocktail from PDT. One day I will make it there but for now I will just admire their creativity and show it to the rest of you. I have used this method of decorating a drink before by making chocolate martinis with either a layer of heavy cream on top or making a thick cocktail. Placing the stencil on top of the drink just sprinkle some chocolate powder on top and bam, whatever kind of design your little heart desires. Here on some type of drink with a foam, most likely containing egg white the stencil was placed on top and a wonderful mist of bitters was sprayed. 

Stencil

 

This is a picture of the stencil I made for my last job. The restaurants name started with an M so I had a regular of mine make it for me. I started off making them out of cardboard and they are useful for a few cocktails, Perhaps a single night of making drinks. This one is made out of a small piece of aluminium. Pretty much indestructible. Maybe if I ever get a job at another place that’s name starts with an M I’ll use it again.

Bitters Shortage

Remember a few months back when you thought cocktails as you knew them were going to change? My favorite ingredient ever was in a terrible shortage that brought the cocktail community to a near panic. Well, once again you can go to the store and not have to worry about if they are going to have any Bitters, or how long it will be on backorder, or having to listen to the clerk telling you “I just don’t know when it will be in.” Now you can just do what I did and go to Target and find that they have so much that its on clearance.  So for now at least, lets all say goodbye to that miserable Bitters shortage. 

No more shortage