Peychaud's Bitters
Peychaud's Bitters is a gentian- based cocktail bitters . Compared to Angosturabitter , a typical aromatic bitter , Peychaud's has a lighter body and tastes sweeter and more floral, and it also gives the drinks a reddish color. Cocktail bitters with a similar taste are also known as Creole bitters .
Like all cocktail bitters, it is usually only used drop by drop or dash by dash ( dash = splash ) to round off the taste of a drink. It is best known as an indispensable part of the Sazerac cocktail . It was invented around 1830 by Antoine Amédée Peychaud, a Creole pharmacist from the French colony of Saint-Domingue , now Haiti , who settled in New Orleans in 1795 . Today Peychaud's Bitters is made by the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort , Kentucky and by the Sazerac Company . expelled.
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- Roulhac Toledano: The National Trust Guide to New Orleans . John Wiley & Sons, New Orleans 1996, ISBN 0-47114-404-5 , p. 226.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peychaud Bitters . Robert B. Hess. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved March 16, 2009.
- ↑ American Heritage Magazine . American Heritage Inc .. Archived from the original on February 23, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ^ The Sazerac Company, New Orleans, LA - Peychaud's Bitters ( January 18, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
