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Small-batch bitters

Primitiva Bitters

Balancing bitters for spiced citrus drinks – three dashes conduct harmony in any tiki cocktail.

Regular price

$16.95

Regular price $16.95
Non-potable bitters
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  • We ship from Portland, OR. Product typically arrives within 3 days on the west coast, 5-7 days elsewhere.
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  • Product is dated "Best By" with a date 2 years after its production date.
  • Product is still usable after its Best By date has lapsed
  • After opening, refrigeration is recommended for preservation.
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  • “The Primitiva Bitters are a wonderful addition to my bar. Brought these on a recent vacation. It was added to, Hurricanes, Sparkling Wate...”

    Tim T.

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Most modern bitters are polite — pleasant, subtle, and invisible in a big tiki drink until you've shaken in half an ounce. Primitiva was built with a promise on the label: three dashes will do. Gentian for true bitterness, both cassia and Ceylon cinnamon (the same two-cinnamon philosophy as our syrup), a shadow of molasses, and a blend of citrus oils that hits harder than juice ever could — all steeped in aged overproof rum. Fair warning: the cinnamon lands heavy here. This is a bitters for cinnamon freaks, and we made it that way on purpose.

It's an aromatic bitters made for drinks with real citrus and spice to referee: a Nui Nui, a Navy Grog, a Painkiller with punch. Off the island, three dashes rebuild a Margarita and add depth to a Daiquiri. The bottle wears our custom dasher top, engineered for aim — more bitters in the shaker, fewer on the bar top.

The dash doctrine

℞ – Take 2–3 dashes, as needed, in:

an Old Fashioned a Daiquiri soda water your coffee (we won't tell)

Before: a drink that's fine. After: a drink with a backstory.

  • Doses in this bottle≈ 161 dashes
  • Cost per dashabout $0.10
  • Shelf lifeoutlives most friendships

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Every legendary tiki recipe started as somebody's kitchen experiment. If you've built a pour worth bragging about, we want it – set in the double-line frame, printed in the official BG Reynolds bar book, your name on the credit line, shelved between the Mai Tai and the Jet Pilot where it belongs.

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