Bartender Journey - Cocktails. Spirits. Bartending Culture. Libations For Your Ears.

On Bartender Journey Podcast # 135 we talk with “Flavorist” Jamie Beurklian from Bar 40 Bitters. ·      The Bar 40 Bitters are very unique –they come in 4 varieties:    Sweet, Salt, Sour and Umami (or "savory"). ·      A few drops can really change the flavor of your cocktail.  Jamie tells us how the Bar 40 Bitters were originally designed to “fix a problem” with a cocktail. ·      Bar40Bitters.com says their bitters are “based on the five gustatory taste receptors. Each flavor includes the compulsory bitter component and is paired with either sweet, sour, salty or umami (savory) flavor profiles”.  This allows the  cocktail creator to “chose the specific taste profile of their liking for their personalized cocktail creations”. ·      So we’ll make our cocktails of the week during the interview – we do a Manhattan & a Negroni (my 2 favorite cocktails btw!)  We make the Manhattan first with Umami bitters and then add the Sour bitters. ·      Cocktails of the week, provided by Jamie Beruklian