Make Your Own Bitters

Steep the ingredients, measure the dash.
A maker's guide to the bottle behind every good cocktail.

Build a blend

Herbs — in parts
  • Gentian roottasted
    1
  • Orange peeltasted
    2
  • Wormwoodtasted
    0
  • Cardamomtasted
    1
  • Cinchona barktasted
    0
  • Dandelion rootestimated
    0

Gently bitter. Bitter 2.3 out of 5, Sweet 0.7 out of 5, Sour/Citrus 1.7 out of 5, Warm/Spice 2.1 out of 5, Herbal/Green 2 out of 5, Earthy/Woody 1.8 out of 5, Floral 2.4 out of 5. Dominant: Floral, Bitter, Warm/Spice.

Flavors are competing evenly — consider letting one herb lead for a clearer character.

Try it in
man with a drink

Who's behind Steepdash

I'm Dave. I read every ingredient label I come across. That's how I ended up making my own bitters instead of buying them. This site is where the two sides of bitters meet: the cocktail kind and the herbal kind. I'm no expert. I just like knowing what's in the bottle, and what's going into my body.

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