How Bitters are beneficial to your health

From the ancient times up to the twentieth century, the cocktails were found mostly with the apothecaries, pharmacists and healers.  The tonics, elixirs, tinctures and Bitters were being produces from vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs added on the alcohol. They were able to cure respiratory troubles, stomach ailments and other problems. Now the ingredients that were used for these cocktails are available and anyone can make it on his own.

The contemporary usage of Angostura

One of these cocktails is Angostura. The current cocktail still use the original secret recipe and the aromatic bitters are still definitive and quintessential ingredients used for contemporary cocktail.  The versatility of this cocktail stretches even beyond a bar counter since it serves like unique flavor to enhance the ability of adding different flavors in preparation of all the food dishes.  

The angostura aromatic bitters add the aroma and the flavor on the soft dessert and beverage. The juice is recognized and also respected like a leader in the aromatic bitters worldwide and there is no bar or a kitchen which is considered to be complete without this. It has unique flavor enhancer or seasoning that can be used in the preparation of the alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage together with the sweet and savory food dishes. It can be used to temper acidity found in the citrus ingredients for the people who are sensitive to the acid. The angostura aromatic bitter is not bitter if it is added on the drinks or food but it is able to marry their flavors. It is able to bring out the best in drinks and food while it does not mask the true flavor of these foods.

Alcohol was in the base of all Apothecary Drinks
 
The Apothecary Drinks have been used in folk medicine and it incorporates the herbs with the distilled spirits.  Wild botanicals mixed with spices were the basic of all curative concoctions.  Many of these ancient flowers together with herb based remedies are now in use up to know.

In the past when there was no electricity and when the refrigeration was yet known, the potency in healing flowers and fragile herbs were preserved by alcohol to protect them against rotting.  The apothecary was a mix of the folk-medicine, entrepreneurship and of the snake oil.  The traveling and local apothecary was found in some towns and they were able to heal serious wounds while at the same time fixing the broken bones.  The early apothecary shop is the place where everyone was going for the curatives of different type of ailments and all of them were embracing the alcohol.

The bitters that were used before; they are making the comeback

The herbal bitters and Cocktail Shrubs have always a place in the medicine chest from the first days of healing.  The bitters were used like wondrous tonic to help in the digestion with the blood circulation. Now many old types of medicinal products are making the comeback in the modern period. With the rediscovery of the bitters, tincture, elixirs and shrubs, the Handcrafted Spirits that were found in the early apothecary store are coming back into the modern mixology. These ingredients were integral part of the healing in the past.