DIY Cherry Bitters

Swapping in cherry bitters for Angostura bitters can give your cocktails a subtle yet delightful boost, adding a hint of fruit while still delivering the bitterness your drink needs. The best part about making your own is you can customize your bitters to your cocktailing needs.

DIY Grapefruit Bitters

Grapefruit bitters do double duty, giving a cocktail a little citrus lift along with the bitterness. These bitters go especially well with effervescent drinks or tequila and gin cocktails.

DIY Celery Bitters

This long-forgotten cocktail ingredient adds a nice savory boost to martinis, gin and tonics, Bloody Marys, and other cocktails.

Rhubarb Syrup

Homemade rhubarb syrup is incredibly easy to make and delicious with seltzer or drizzled over ice cream. It's also quite tasty mixed with ginger beer, dark rum, and lime, or used in any type of drink where you want a jolt of spring or summer flavor.

DIY Orange Bitters

Just a drop or two of orange bitters can add the right depth to your cocktail or bridge together ingredients that aren't quite living up to their mixological potential. Deep, citrusy, spicy, complex orange bitters are an essential part of so many balanced cocktails.

Rhubarb Juice

This is one of those deceptively simple recipes, passed down through friends of friends, that everyone adores. Once chilled, the juice is brisk and refreshing, with just a touch of sweetness.

Rhubarb-Strawberry Margaritas

If you like strawberry rhubarb pie, you may find it hard to resist this fruity margarita, which arrives in a lovely shade of rose.

DIY Strawberry Liqueur

A sweet liqueur flavored with strawberries and tarragon.

Krangostura Bitters

These Krangostura Bitters, a loose play on the quintessential Angostura brand, are brimming with clove and cardamom and supported by a backbone of gentian root and cinchona bark. Try them in your next Manhattan or Old Fashioned and branch out from there.

DIY Mole Bitters

The exotic combination of chile and chocolate in these mole bitters is a perfect addition to cocktails made with tequila, mezcal, or dark rum.