Fee Brothers Bar Cocktail Bitters Complete Set - 12 Bottles

Got this as a gift for my buddy whose always making wild cocktails. He loves it. Lots of options to play with flavor profiles with lots of different liquors and such.

This is such a great assortment of bitters for the home cocktail aficionado. My husband and I have so thoroughly enjoyed experimenting adding different flavors to our cocktails. Just a heads up: the mint bitters do contain green dye, which will affect the color of your drink.

Three things to keep in mind:- Everything in here is fairly sweet. 'Bitters' is a historical term, but these are really not very bitter. For instance, Regan's Orange Bitters are a much more bitter orange flavor (like concentrated peel) than the orange here.- If you limit yourself to just alcoholic drinks you're cheating yourself. I have a Sodastream, and adding these 'bitters' to the carbonated water tastes fantastic.- You're not saving a lot on this. At current price, $100/12 = $8.33 per bottle. But if you get the free shipping suddenly it's reasonable. And having the selection is fairly liberating.Once you have the set of 12 it's time to figure out what to do with them. Your flavors are:- Fruit: Peach, Lemon, Grapefruit, Cherry, Rhubarb, Cranberry, Orange. Yes, technically rhubarb isn't a fruit.- Other: Mint, Plum, Old Fashioned, Celery, Aztec Chocolate.The fruit flavors speak for themselves. If you can't think of a hundred things to do with these (at a minimum, fuzzy navel, or gin + flavor + tonic water) you shouldn't be ordering this in the first place. Imagine concentrated flavor + sweet and you know what you're getting.The others are more interesting. The mint bitters contribute greatly to a mojito. Celery works fantastic with tomato juice or bloody mary mix. The plum is very cinnamony, and the Old Fashioned is like the plum but with extra heavy spices.The Aztec Chocolate Bitters are fairly disgusting on their own, but when paired with a good spiced rum like The Kraken are quite amazing, and though I haven't tried it yet I imagine they'd work well with a mole' sauce.So to summarize - you can't do anything with these on their own, but that would be like drinking the output of a duck press. You are buying a set of 12 flavor enhancers, and this set is great for that. And you only need a few shakes, so each bottle will last for years.

Mostly used to enhance water. We've bought many flavors in the past but the 12 pack was a better deal and gave us a few new ones to try. Plum was a particular favorite. The only disappointing one was celery but we'll try it when we make soup. Might be a great fit.

Noticed the box was leaking and pulled out one bottle that the bottom was smashed out of. It had leaked all over a few of the other bottles, as well. The package was well-wrapped, so I’m not sure when or how the break happened. This item is not available for returns, so I’m stuck with an incomplete set. This was a gift for my husband for Christmas, and it’s a bummer that the one flavor that actually sounds good to me is the one that broke 😂

While I won't say Fee Brothers is the best when I compare Angostura Orange to Fee Orange, they are definitely still good. And even better because they have some real variety here. Man, I wanted Rhubarb bitters, and when I saw this I had to get them all. What sucks is, I had to then buy cardamom bitters separately since they don't come in the set. What is great, is that mine all came as 5 oz., even though I thought the product page said they were each 4 oz.Bitters last forever. I have some from back in my hidden bar in my parent's house from my pre-teen days. They don't go bad, but you never get through them, either, so this is a set with much to give for years to come.

These are nice. Just as advertised.

This variety of bitters is a bartenders dream! All of the different flavors allow for any cocktail to be crafted to anyone’s specific tastes. I ordered this just because it’s a very reliable flavor profile that I have worked with before. The company that provides this kit is AMAZING!! Somehow through the delivery process a bottle became nicked and slow leaked through the whole box ruining almost all of the labels of the other bottles. Brian from the company that shipped this product replaced the case with no issues. I would highly recommend this product and company to anyone wanting a quality bitters and wonderful customer service!!