Product: Bitter, Peychaud’s Peychaud's Bitters

Peychaud's Bitters is a gentian-based cocktail bitters. Compared to Angostura bitters, a typicalAromatic bitters, Peychaud's has a lighter body and tastes sweeter and more floral, it also provides a reddish color to drinks. Cocktail bitters of similar flavor are also calledCreole Bitters.

Like all cocktail bitters, it is usually used by thedrop or dash to round out the flavor of a drink. It is best known as an essential ingredient in the Sazerac cocktail. It was invented around 1830 by Antoine Amédée Peychaud, a Creoleapothecary from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, who settled in New Orleans in 1795. Today, Peychaud's Bitters is produced by Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky and distributed by theSazerac Company.

The Peychaud family is still part of public life in New Orleans today, with Rosalind Peychaud serving as a member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives.