Bob’s Abbotts Bitters

Taking five years to perfect, Bob’s recreation of this classic recipe is the only product in his range to use a variety of aromatics, including lively peppermint, sweet cinnamon and warming spices.

Abbotts Bitters were originally produced in Baltimore, but soon became popular across America, adding a sweet vanilla flavour to cocktails throughout the early 20th century.

With no officially recorded recipe for the original Abbotts Bitters, Bob set about recreating this classic bitters recipe through careful tasting and testing of a surviving original bottle which was supplied by renowned mixologist Jake Burger of Portobello Road Gin.

The ultimate test was a Manhattan cocktail. To make it truly sublime, one or two secret ingredients were also added to Bob and Jake’s 21st century Abbotts recipe. Bob steeps these ingredients in Scotch whisky. Once filtered, the product is aged for up to a year in oak barrels, a process that produces what has been described as “a more rounded flavour with many layers of complexity”. The resulting liquid brings an age-old product back to the modern bartender’s toolkit, with a distinctive, well-rounded flavour profile.