Mississippi River Distilling Company - LeClaire, Iowa - Whiskey School. WHISKEY SCHOOL You love whiskey. So do we. And we want you to see what it’s all about from beginning to end. Experience whiskey in a whole new way with this up close and personal weekend. You’ll get a chance to do everything from the mashing to distilling to bottling. FEB 8-9, 2014 Tickets $2,000 per couple 5 tickets total available Your ticket gets you: Admission for you and one companion on the Whiskey School weekend. 6 bottles of Cody Road Bourbon 1 Used Cody Road Rye Whiskey Barrel 2 Glencarin Crystal Whiskey Nosing Glasses 1 Cody Road Whiskey aluminum bar sign 2 Cody Road Whiskey T-Shirts 1 double queen bed room at the LeClaire Holiday Inn Express Riverfront All food and drink for the weekend. Welcome to the - Ministry of Rum. Bermuda Wine Circle | Wine Tasting Details.
MXLGY | A private newsletter for the drinking enthusiast, dedicated to the art of craft cocktails & modern mixology. Spirits and Cocktails - Making Bitters. I’ve been asked many times, by many people about the “mystery” of making bitters, and today, finally, I am going to address this question. Before we go into how to make bitters, let’s have a very brief discussion of what bitters are. Bitters were originally used as medicine, curing pretty much every ailment under the sun but usually centered around issues with digestion (have you ever added Angostura bitters to soda or ginger ale to help settle your stomach? If you haven’t, give it a go; it works.) Unlike today, bitters were usually taken by themselves, and it wasn’t until the late 1700′s that people started adding them to spirits (in themselves a cure-all) giving birth to the cocktail (and cocktail bitters). Today, cocktail bitters are added to one’s tipple to introduce subtle new flavors and help integrate all of the components of the libation together, offering up a much more complex and interesting cocktail.
The first mystery of making bitters is quite simple: there is no mystery. Brad Parsons- Bitters Blog.