I am currently drinking a soda with a new fangled orange bitters-a little to sweet really.
Since I am not a drinker Soda with bitters is my standard "cocktail"And I have tried several different types:angastoura,peychaud,old orange,Italian chimotta.

Anyone else share my taste?

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(Am I clear enough? )

In my youth i gave up alcohol for a significant break on car insurance. My "cocktail" of choice was Schweppes Bitter Lemon with Angostura bitters. I consider Angostura the only true aromatic bitters.

I subsequently switched insurance carriers and resumed alcohol, and Schweppes stopped making Bitter Lemon. I switched to tonic water and bitters, for those sober occasions.

Recently Angostura has created a product called Lemon, Lime & Bitters, but it appears to be readily available only in the Eastern Caribbean (in my experience).

I recently learned of a recipe for a breakfast treat: half a grapefruit, liberally doused with bitters, then broiled (yup, in the oven, under downward radiant heat). The heat loosens the flesh from the skin and membranes. The original recipe also calls for sprinkling on demarara sugar before broiling, but i find it dissolves in the grapefruit juice rather than carmelizing, and does little to enhance a good grapefruit.

When it comes to beer, talking about bitterness, I hate bitterness. That's why I never drink Heineken. I love Asahi and Sapporo. Mild taste but still very refreshing.

p.s : Black beer is the worst I have ever had. Still don't know why old people
like it.

As long as you avoid the German "digestif" bitters you'll be fine...
A couple of old cocktails, the "Old Fashioned" and the "Sazerac" are flavored with bitters, and those of us who were hard drinkers of yore can always turn to a "Pink", a couple of dashes of Angostura in a "rocks" glass,swirled, then a shot of gin (chilled for Transpondians like me), knocked back before lunch, the standard of RN wardrooms.

Any number of Italian apertifs including Vermouth are flavored with quinine and citrus. Punt e mes is a syrupy one quite like bitters, but I kind of like the "Lemonattila", a Vodka Martini using Limoncello instead of Vermouth.

Bitter? umm I don't mind that on my cocktails but not soda! Why would you drink bitter soda?

I like Cynar
Aperol especially and Campari a little less (mixed with sparkling wine, a little soda, a piece of orange it's a Spritz)
My cocktail cabinet includes Angostura and orange bitters (from Peychaud)

I like the quinnine taste of Tonic Water

Don't like any kind of Lager - but I do like a glass of Bitter (not all of them, they vary a lot)

I also like bitter gourd tea (Chinese?).

Don't like green tea when it's been allowed to brew for too long (or been made with water that was too hot) as this makes it bitter, but some green teas have a natural bitterness I quite enjoy (apparantly my taste is quite working class when it comes to sencha - my favourite is described as 'sushi shop' style tea)

In some parts of Europe Schweppes (and other manufacturers) make 'bitter' soft drinks which taste like soda water mixed with Campari but without the alcohol.
Here's the Kas version
I tried it as a child and have loathed it ever since...
Seems similar to what bigguyinpasadena was drinking but in a ready mixed format.

Cynar and club soda! Yum.

Campari with anything.

Punt e mes...

My summer drinks.

That's precisely why I'm down with bitters.

I too like bitters, more for the aromas than the bitterness. I also find them,
er, kind of sweet.

I had never thought to try this until I was in New Zealand while pregnant. My husband was having a glass of one of the great NZ wines, and the server suggested lemon-lime (like Sprite) with bitters for me. It was great! I turns out that it is a very common Kiwi non-alcoholic cocktail - they even sell it premixed in cans in the stores. I now order it all the time.

Btw, tijet, you can still get Bitter Lemon in the UK.

Nope. Not me!