Bob’s Abbotts Bitters

Bob’s Abbotts Bitters is a reconstruction of a historic Abbott Bitters’ recipe and was Bob’s first venture into creating a bitters using a blend of aromatics and botanicals – a departure from his single-ingredient bitters range.

Bob’s Abbotts Bitters was created in collaboration with renowned mixologist Jake Burger of Portobello Road Gin following five years of research and development.

With no officially recorded recipe for the original Abbotts Bitters, Bob and Jake worked together tasting and carrying out tests on a rare bottle of the original Abbotts Bitters to reformulate and redevelop this classic bitters recipe.

Bob steeps 29 ingredients - including warming spices, herbs, roots, bark and citrus peel - in award-winning English Whisky. Following the filtering processes, the product is then aged for up to a year in oak barrels to give a distinctive, well-rounded flavour profile. The result is a bold, well-layered aromatic bitters combining warm baking spices with citrus brightness and a tannic bitter backbone designed to lift and deepen spirit-forward cocktails without overwhelming them.

Bob’s Abbotts Bitters has a pronounced flavour profile that lends itself to rich, full-bodied spirits such as whisky, bourbon, rye and aged or dark rum. A dash or two will give an Old Fashioned, Manhattan or Rob Roy a more rounded quality while the layered spice and botanical notes can elevate a simple Pink Gin or Ginger Wine with a few drops.

Being a versatile product, Abbotts Bitters give a distinctive edge to low or no-alcohol beverages and soft drinks, e.g. sophistication can be added to a simple Lemon, Lime & Bitters whilst a few drops in a Shirley Temple heightens the warming spice of ginger beer and imparts an interesting aromatic quality.