Post #263361 by PiPhiRho on Sun, Oct 29, 2006 2:22 PM

Peychaud's Bitters and Angostura Bitters are nothing alike and are not interchangeable. Unfortuanately, Peychaud's Bitters can be hard to find if you are not in New Orleans. Some of the larger liquor stores in LA carry it now. Perhaps that is true in other cities as well.

And by LA, I mean Los Angeles, not Louisiana. I think it is generally pretty easy to find in Louisiana, which is where it comes from.

Here is a Wikipedia blurb on bitters...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitters

And the webpage of the distributor of Peychaud's Bitters (note that this is the same company that once distributed Falernum in the US).

http://www.sazerac.com/bitters.html

[ Edited by: PiPhiRho 2006-10-29 14:27 ]