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Japanese Cocktail
Lightly sweetened and diluted cognac, flavoured with almond and a hint of spice
Theo Clark
19th July 2025 at 01:05
I don't... I don't know if your bokers bitters are different to mine, but this was an absolute miss for me. This was horrid. Insipid.
19th July 2025 at 16:07
I used The Bitter Truth Bogarts Bitters. What bitters did you use?
19th July 2025 at 21:37
I used fee brothers cardamom boker's style bitters. Anders Erikson gave me the idea that it was effectively the same as, or close enough to other boker's or Bogart's bitters, but the result in this was like. Bile. Honestly it got me to finally order a bottle of actual bokers because I have to assume that these fee brothers bitters are just not cutting it for me.