18.21 Bitters

Crafting a Better Cocktail

Extra Extra Read All About It! PROHIBITION IS OVER! 18.21 Bitters was created to craft a better cocktail. We may no longer need to disguise our smuggled libations but it sure is fun to pretend! Scroll through our products to see the finest in premium, small batch, handcrafted cocktail bitters, shrubs, syrups and tonic, ginger beer and pre-mixed craft cocktails. Throw on your top hat, grab a bottle and have a roaring good time!

“NON-ALCOHOLIC WINTER PUNCH”

Add the following to a pitcher or punch bowl:

2 cups Non-Alcoholic Spirit (Try a combo of Seedlip Spice 94 and Grove 42)

1/2 cup 1821 Apple Cardamom Shrub

1/2 cup 1821 Ginger Beer Syrup

1/2 cup Lemon Juice

Add sliced apples, lemon and thyme

Top with Fré Non Alcoholic Sparkling Wine

Blackberry Peppercorn+Rosemary Pan Seared Salmon

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4 salmon filets

1/2 cup 18.21 Blackberry Peppercorn Shrub

Juice from 1 /2 of a lemon

2 Tsp Sea Salt

2 tsp Garlic powder

3-4 rosemary sprigs

1/2 cup blackberries (slightly smushed)

2 Tbsp Olive oil

Add all ingredients, except salmon, blackberries and olive oil to a small bowl and whisk together.

Pat salmon dry. Add to baking dish, skin side down and pour mixture over salmon.

Refrigerate for 1 hour.

Add olive to large pan and heat for a minute. Add salmon to hot oil and cook for 3-4 minutes on medium high heat. Flip salmon over and add blackberries to pan. Cook for another 3-4 minutes. Serve immediately. Scoop any sauce left in pan and blackberries over salmon and garnish with rosemary.

Best served with pan roasted Brussel sprouts or charred green beans

 

Spiced Pear+Apple Cardamom Pie

DOUGH:

2 1/2 Cups Flour

1/4 cup Sugar

1 tsp salt

1 1/2 sticks cold butter (diced into cubes)

1 Egg

4 Tbsp Cold Water

Mix all dry ingredients in a food processor and pulse

Mix in cubes of butter 2 at a time, gently pulsing until mixture resembles cornmeal.

Beat the egg and water together, then add to the dough mixture, gently pulse. If mix is dry, add an additional tbsp of cold water

Divide the dough in half. Shape into 2 disks, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour

FILLING:

4-5 Apples. A mixture of Gala, Granny Smith, Fiji and Golden Delicious

3-4 Pears (Preferably Bartlett or Bosc)

1 Lemon (zested+juiced)

1/2 cup 18.21 Apple Cardamom Shrub

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 Tbsp Vanilla extract

1/2 stick butter

1/4 cup flour

1 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg, sea salt, ground ginger and ground allspice

Peel, core and chop apples and pears into 1/2 slices or cubes. Squeeze juice from 1 lemon over apples, Add sugar, shrub, and spices. Toss everything together and let sit for 10-15 minutes.

Melt butter in large skillet and add fruit mixture. Simmer on low medium heat for 10 minutes, til the fruit softens and liquid reduces by half. Add lemon zest and vanilla. Stir in flour to mixture and remove from heat. Let cool.

Dust countertop with flour. Roll out disks to 12” round. Roll first disk around a rolling pin and transfer to a 9” pie pan. Trim edges so it hangs over about 1/2 inch. Fill the crust with pie filling. Cut the remaining disk into 1/4”-1/2” wide slices. Lay the slices over pie and criss cross over one another to make a lattice pattern. Trim the edges. Refrigerate for 20-30 minutes. Preheat oven to 400. Brush top of pie with egg wash. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until the top is golden brown. Serve warm

“CRANBERRY NUT BREAD

2 Cups Flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp baking soda

up 1 tsp salt

1 egg, lightly beaten

1/3 cup milk, warm

2 Tbsp vanilla extract

2 Tbsp melted butter

1 cup plus 2 tbsp Cranberry mix* See below

3/4 cup walnuts, optional

For Cranberry Mix, Add 1 bottle 1821 Holiday Syrup (cranberry, clove, Rosemry+Orange) to a pot and bring to a boil with 1/2 c port or red wine and 1 cup whole cranberries. When you hear the cranberries start to pop, reduce heat to low and simmer

Preheat oven to 350°

Sift all dry ingredients in one bowl.

In another bowl, Add heated milk, vanilla, melted butter and egg and stir together. Add I cup of cranberry mixture to wet ingredients and stir until it turns completely red. Add dry ingredients to wet and gently fold with a spatula until everything is incorporated. Add to lightly greased loaf pan, add 2 tbsp of cranberry mix to top of bread and run a fork over the top. Bake for 45-55 min or until top is browned and knife comes out clean

2 oz Ghia Non Alcoholic Aperitif

.75 oz 18.21 Blood orange+Ginger Shrub

.5 oz 18.21 Hibiscus Syrup

1 Bar Spoon Beetroot powder

Shake well with ice, Double strain into a coupe glass

Top with Fré Non Alcoholic sparkling Brut

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