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Orange bitters

Orange bitters are a concentrated, bittersweet flavouring made from orange peel and aromatic botanicals, used in dashes to add citrus-forward complexity to stirred cocktails. They are distinct from Angostura bitters, which lean more toward baking-spice notes.

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Common uses

  • dashed into stirred gin and vodka cocktails for citrus complexity

Buying & storage

Keeps more or less indefinitely: Alcohol is preserving it. An open bottle keeps for a very long time, though aromatics do fade slowly.

Storage: keeps indefinitely at room temperature

Stand-in

Where orange bitters is a recommended substitute

Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.

Swap it

Possible substitutions