Cocktail Recipes
Old Fashioned
Ingredients
2 oz Rye Whiskey (or sub Bourbon)
2-3 Dashes of Bear Root Old Fashioned Aromatic Bitters
1 Dash Bear Root Orange Bitters
1 Sugar Cube or 2 Bar-spoons Simple Syrup
Orange Peel Garnish
Ice
Soda Water (optional)
Recipe
Place sugar cube in rocks glass. Add Bear Root Orange and Old Fashioned Aromatic Bitters and a small splash of flat or soda water. Muddle at the bottom of the glass.
Add ice.
Pour in Whiskey.
Stir and garnish.
Togwotee Toddy
Ingredients
3 oz Hot Water
1 oz Cognac (or sub brandy)
1 oz Aged Rum
1 oz Lemon Juice
2-3 Dashes Bear Root Lemony Ginger Bitters
Clove-Stubbed Lemon Wheel and Cinnamon Stick Garnish
Recipe
Mix ingredients in a mug, garnish, and serve.
Mountain
Man-Hattan
Ingredients
2 oz Rye whiskey (or sub Bourbon)
½ oz Sweet Vermouth
½ oz Dry Vermouth
1 Tsp Lemon Juice
3 dashes of Bear Root Cherry Bitters
Douglas Fir sprig garnish (or sub orange peel)
Recipe
Pour liquid ingredients into a mixing glass with ice. Stir. Strain into a cocktail glass. Add garnish.
*Traditional Manhattans are served up and chilled in a Martini Glass.
*Enjoy by a campfire morning, noon or night.
The Bronx
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Gin
½ oz Dry Vermouth
½ oz Sweet Vermouth
1 ½ oz Orange Juice
3 Dash Bear Root Orange Bitters
Recipe
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Cafe Brandy Alexander
Ingredients
2 oz Cognac (or sub Brandy)
1 oz Dark Creme de Cacao
1 oz Cream
Nutmeg (preferably fresh ground)
3 dashes of Bear Root Cacao Coffee Bitters
Recipe
Add liquid ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into a chilled Coupe Glass.
Grate nutmeg on top as garnish.
*You can also try it mixed in a blender with ice.
The Bubble Shrub
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Gin
1 ½ oz Bear Root Grapefruit Rosemary Shrub
3 Dashes Bear Root Teton Lavender Bitters
Seltzer Water
Grapefruit or Lime Wheel
Recipe
Add gin, shrub, and bitters into a cocktail shaker with ice
Shake and strain into a glass with ice
Fill glass with seltzer water
Garnish with a grapefruit or lime wheel
*Add a splash of Cinnamon Simple Syrup for additional sweetness
Maple Coffee Manhattan
Ingredients
2oz Bourbon or Rye Whiskey
1oz Sweet Vermouth
1/2oz Maple Syrup
1/2oz Creme De Cacao
2 Dashes of Bear Root Cacao Coffee Bitters
2 Dashes of Bear Root Orange Bitters
Recipe
Mix liquid ingredients into a rocks glass with ice
Stir for 20-30 seconds
Garnish with an orange peel or cinnamon stick
What is a “Dash Of Bitters?”
“A dash of bitters is not a drop of bitters.”
A “dash” is about 15 drops or 1 squeeze of the bulb of the dropper top. It should fill the dropper half way up.
If you have a large bottle of bitters with no glass dropper, 1 shake of the bottle over a drink is a dash.
