This Ronin angostura bottle is one of the latest Speakeasy-style creations among the most vintage bar tools of the moment.
In fact, in person even more than in photos, you will be enchanted by the workmanship both around and at the bottom of the dash bottle: created with industrial mold and not by hand the price turns out to be low and the effect certainly scenic on the counter of your bar!
Extreme strength
Glass of a certain thickness is suitable for the most chaotic evenings and for being handled absent-mindedly and quickly: a detail that makes all the difference!
A few curiosities
Angostura or Angostura Bitter, is a liquor that originated in the city of the same name, Angostura, now called Ciudad Bolivar, in northern Venezuela. Its particular and intense blend comes from the infusion in alcohol of orange peel, cloves, gentian root, cardamom and a variety of tropical herbs jealously kept secret.
It has a very high alcohol content, about 45 percent, and its very strong and intense taste allows it to be used only in small quantities, such as to enhance the taste of sauces in cooking, or to give added prominence to various cocktails such as the Old Fashioned, Rob Roy and the unforgettable Manhattan.
Precisely because of its excessively strong taste, Angostura is never served neat, is sold on the market in small 200-ml bottles, and comes in a very dark color tending toward black.
Its inventor was a German doctor named Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, who in the early 1800s devised this particular blend after doing a great deal of research on the medicinal properties of tropical herbs, coming to the conclusion that Angostura was a bitter capable of aiding appetite and digestion.
The Secret of Angostura
Aside from the presence of tropical herbs and spices in the ingredients (and not the bark of the angostura tree as many bartending books mention) the formula is jealously guarded in a bank in New York and only four people, currently living, know about it.
About twenty years ago the ink on the official documents began to fade, and after careful transcription in a secret location, the document with the formula was divided into four, sealed in separate envelopes, sealed with sealing wax, and sent to the New York bank, one after the other, only after confirmation of receipt of the previous one and deposited in a safe without being opened again.
Nowadays the Angostura Company, not only produces the aromatic bitter, but counts among its products, fine rums, liqueurs, distilled spirits, bases for punches and oversized sauces.
A small curiosity concerns the "oversized" label. It seems that by mistake the printers printed a stock of labels larger than normal, but they were used anyway, arousing the curiosity of customers who thought it was a publicity stunt.
The idea of the "oversized" label appealed to the company's executives so much that it was adopted as a standard and has been maintained over the years , becoming a main feature , proving that many times success stories are born just by chance.
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