What are Angostura bitters?
They won t give me the recipe! It s a mixture of spices, herbs, and botanicals on an alcohol base. It started as a medicinal compound by a German, Doctor Siegert, and by the turn of the century it became a part of cocktails. Soon the British aristocracy took it for their pink gins and so it travelled around the world. The UK is the third biggest market, mainly in cocktail bars. One of our tasks is to find new uses: cooking, coffee, ice cream, fruit, water an Angostura Spring water with a couple of dashes in it is very nice! Angostura is a high profile company and one of the jewels in the Trinidad crown, it s very prestigious. At present I go to Trinidad every second month. Angostoura is part of my charge. LFW: Were you at the start of Burn Stewart? No, I started in 1994. Originally Burn Stewart was a small whisky-broking company owned by the Hillman family who were well known in the industry. In 1988 Bill Thornton, formerly of Hiram Walker, bought Burn Stewart as he wanted a vehicle to
