Art by Joren Eulalee
TASTE BOTANICAL DIVERSITY
Shoots & Roots Bitters is driven by our love of plants and conserving the earth’s biodiversity. We create and curate botanical concoctions to bring you the flavor and stories of plants from around the world for a remarkable taste of diversity. Our offerings include:
- Botanical Products: science-based bitters, syrups, tisanes, and tonics
- Consulting Services: ingredient sourcing, designing custom botanical blends, drink menus, and custom cocktail recipes
- Curated Tea Program: curated tea offerings, tea menus, tea-brewing protocols, and training for cafes / restaurants and more
- Educational Services: botanical workshops and lectures
Created by three botanists and valuing collaboration across sectors, our growing team includes mixologists, chefs, and artists.
Eating and drinking is one of the most intimate acts, so do it well.
Our new book on the culture and botany of bitters, “Botany at the Bar: The Art and Science of Making Bitters” launched summer 2019. Published in the UK by Leaping Hare Press / Quatro Books and in the USA by Roost Books. Distributed by Penguin Random House.
HISTORY OF BITTERS |ˈBITƏRS|AND BOTANICAL EXTRACTS
Bitters are botanical infusions that bring out the flavor and other properties of plants. People have been preparing bitters around the world for centuries. Bitters emerged in Western pharmacies over 200 years ago where they were mixed with soda water or spirits. From there, the use of bitters evolved to adding a splash of flavor to cocktails and other drinks.
Shoots & Roots featured as the December 2017 cover story in the inflight magazine of Southwest Airlines.
CONTEMPORARY botanical blends BY SHOOTS & ROOTS
Shoots & Roots Bitters draw from past traditions to innovate new botanical formulas that celebrate the world's diversity of plants, cultures, and sensory experiences. Add a splash of Shoots & Roots Bitters’ botanical blends to your food and beverage for a remarkable flavor journey.
Sensory Journeys
We design botanical blends that each have have a bitter note and so much more. The human tongue has over 40 types of taste receptors that can detect over 550 known bitter-tasting compounds. In addition the the basic tastes of bitter, sweet, sour, astringent and umami, our experience of flavor derives from complex aroma from thousands of secondary metabolite compounds. The botanical blends we create seek to capture this wide range of compounds representing the world's biodiversity for unique sensory journeys.
Create your own infusions with Shoots & Roots Bitters botanical blends.
Born in Harlem, New York
Based in Bozeman, Montana