As I stepped through the doorway of Curry Hill’s famous Kalustyan’s I came face to face with an enormous wall of bitters.
What Delight!
What a Rarity!
What Beauty!
What a trove of delicious flavors!
A seemingly endless variety was placed in front of my eyes:
Rhubarb bitters, Celery bitters, Peach bitters, Clover bitters, Lemon bitters, Grapefruit bitters, Chilean bitters, German bitters, even Bitter bitters…
I couldn’t help but notice the lone, empty aisle where the Trinidadian classic, Angostura bitters normally resides…but alas, I shall survive the drought with my own personal stash!
I grabbed a bottle of the New Orleans stalwart, Peychoud’s as well as Regan’s Orange #6 (quite a hard one to find!) and then reached up and took the last bottle of the German Bitter Truth Aromatic bitters…this is quite a find! Coming in at 3 times the price of the others this is one of the most sought after bottles by mixologists in our fair city. Supposedly it is the Aromatic that the famous Angostura was modeled after yet has never had distribution outside of Deustchland…
It’s mine now!
So now I await the time to experiment!