Cinnamon Bitters

Cocktail bitters built around cinnamon (typically both warm cassia and brighter Ceylon) as the dominant flavoring botanical, on a high-proof neutral-spirit or rum base with a bittering backbone (gentian, quassia, or wormwood) for balance. Delivers a dry, dusty, warm-spice character — cinnamon stick, Red Hots candy, baked-apple skin, faint clove and orange peel undertones — without sweetness. A few dashes lift whiskey-forward cocktails (Manhattan, Old Fashioned, Vieux Carre, Sazerac), apple/pear ...