Peychaud's Bitters

Peychaud 's Bitters is a gentian -based bitters, comparable to Angostura, but with a lighter body, sweeter taste and aroma blumigerem. Like all cocktail bitters it is usually used only drips or Dashweise to round out the taste of a drink. He is known primarily as an indispensable part of the Sazerac cocktail. It was invented around 1830 by Antoine Amédée Peychaud, a Creole apothecary from the French colony of Saint -Domingue, now Haiti, who settled in 1795 in New Orleans. Today, Peychaud 's bitters is produced by the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky and by the Sazerac Company. distributed.

The Peychaud family is still part of public life in New Orleans, then Rosalind Peychaud MPs in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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• Toledano, Roulhac: The National Trust Guide to New Orleans, Page 226 New Orleans, LA: John Wiley & Sons, 1996, ISBN 0-47114-404-5. .