Salmiakki Dala Bitter

Description

Salmiakki Dala Bitter is a salted licorice fernet that honors Scandinavian culture. Scandinavians are so in love with Salmiak candies that they have been known to drop a handful into a bottle of aquavit or vodka to make a bitter salty licorice liqueur. With that in mind, Bittermans set out to create a liqueur that takes the Salmiak flavor profile and merges it with a classic Fernet to create a new bitter that is familiar to lovers of Fernet and Scandinavians as well!

Bittermens was the first independent producer of cocktail bitters in America to be licensed after Prohibition. Since 2007, Avery and Janet Glasser have been formulating cocktail bitters, growing Bittermens into one of the largest hand-produced brands of cocktail bitters in the world.

In 2012, Avery and Janet took on another project, creating a Nordic-style Bitter Schnapps. This new formulation was launched during the fall of that year in Sweden and is now available throughout the United States and Europe.

The Nordic flavor profile is profoundly different from that of southern Europe, making use of wormwood, dill, caraway, licorice, and unique flavorings like sal ammoniac. Exploring those flavors, the Glassers decided to build a small offering of unique Nordic-inspired spirits. As a collection, these are now called Dala Spirits, named after Swedish folk legends of the Dala Horse.