Hot Pepper Bitters Recipes

Backwards and In High Heels

This one I remember naming! It's a favorite quote about Ginger Rogers: "She did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels". Ginger, you deserve this ginger liqueur cocktail named after you. (We like Koval or Canton's liqueur)

0.75oz Overproof Rum

0.75oz Cachaça

1oz Ginger Liqueur

0.5oz Dolin Sweet Vermouth 

0.25oz Lemon Juice

0.25oz Lime Juice

0.25oz Demerera Simple Syrup 

0.25oz Orange Juice

5-6 Dashes “Hot & Bothered” Hot Pepper Bitters

3-4 Dashes “Broken-Hearted” Aromatic Bitters 

Shake/strain in rocks glass over fresh ice, serve on the rocks

Garnish with lemon swath and cherry

Bloody Maria

In this south-of-the-border spin on the brunch-favorite Bloody Mary, boring vodka is replaced by earthy tequila. The Bloody Maria gains extra kick from a dose of horseradish and a few dashes of spicy celery bitters. Brunch becomes a fiesta with this tequila-spiked Bloody Mary.

Ingredients:

2oz Tequila (blanco/silver)

4oz Tomato juice

0.5oz Lemon Juice

4 dashes Worcestershire sauce

2 dashes Louisiana Hot Sauce

2 dashes Cholula Hot Sauce

1 tsp Prepared horseradish, to taste

1 pinch Celery salt

1 pinch Ground black pepper

4-5 dashes Bitter Ex "New Phone, Who Dis?" Celery Bitters

4-5 dashes Bitter Ex “Hot & Bothered” Hot Pepper Bitters

Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake briefly and strain into a pint glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with a lime wedge, a lemon wedge, a pickle, and whatever else you can imagine. Be creative!

Spicy Margarita

This is a take on a classic, and you don’t have to do much to make it have a wild kick…make your favorite margarita and load it with Bitter Ex Hot Pepper Bitters! You’ll thank us!!

2oz white tequila

1oz fresh squeezed lime juice

0.5oz simple syrup

0.5oz triple sec

6-7 dashes (or to taste - careful, its damn hot) Bitter Ex “Hot & Bothered” Hot Pepper Bitters

Shake, strain into ice-filled, salt-rim rocks glass

Garnish with lime wedge