Angostura bitters
As Angostura Angostura or is referred to a bitter, which may also contain bitter orange, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and cinchona next gentian root. Angosturarinde is not used in the original recipe, but probably in imitation products. The bitter (for example, the Manhattan or Moscow Mule ) used to flavor desserts, sauces for fish and meat for flavoring gin, vodka and gin as well as for the production of mixed drinks.
Angostura contains 44.7 vol - % alcohol; yet he was not banned in the U.S. during Prohibition, since it is so bitter that it can be used only for flavoring ( "Strong Bitter ").
History
Angostura was developed by the German physician Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, the beginning of the 19th century at the request of the South African freedom fighter Simón Bolívar one military hospital in the former Venezuelan city of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar ) had set up. Against the prevailing tropical diseases he developed in 1824 a high-proof tonic that but not as a medicine, but as a seasoning under the name Angostura made his career. Later Siegert Bolívar's troops left to market his invention. The Angostura Group or the Company House of Angostura based in Trinidad is the legal successor of the company founded in the 1850s by Siegert company. The company points out, however, that their products marketed under the brand name Angostura Aromatic Bitters Bitter, which allegedly are still prepared according to Siegert's original recipe from 1824, do not contain Angosturarinde. The name so can be derived from only the name of the city have made in the Siegert his invention. Nevertheless, from other manufacturers - partly also under the name Angostura - Bitter distributing products containing Angosturarinde as an additional component.
Each bottle is on the side of a view of Emperor Franz Joseph I, as the company in Vienna won a medal at the World Exhibition in 1873.
Availability
Angostura is now much less common and therefore not widely available. Since it is a seasoning, it can be found in shops in the spices rather than with the drinks and more in specialty stores than in supermarkets.