If you’ve ever added a splash of hot sauce to a sandwich or grain bowl, you understand the basics of cocktail bitters. Sold in small bottles and doled out by the dash, bitters are aromatic extracts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bartender pours red liqueur into a mixing glass with ice - Maksym Fesenko/Shutterstock Once used for medicinal purposes, today's ...

A row of unlabeled bottles of bitters next to cocktail shakers on a marble bar - Jadkins333/Shutterstock When a cocktail calls for a unique hit of flavor, that's when you want to reach for bitters.