Bittered Sling Extracts
A culinary and cocktail friendly artisanal retail line, by Kale & Nori Culinary Arts Inc.
LATEST NEWS:
April 01 2013, Vancouver, BC | Bittered Sling is traveling to Argentina later this month for Tales of the Cocktail on Tour Buenos Aires! Tickets are available for this festival here: www.talesofthecocktail.com. We will be hosting a special event called “Bitter Booster” – more info available here: http://www.talesofthecocktail.com/events/bitter-booster/
About Bittered Sling Extracts
In 2008, Bartender Lauren Mote started making extracts and bitters for the sheer love of science and experimentation. After the creation of over 43 different kinds that expressed ingredients and their tasting notes, Mote’s extracts developed into an award-winning cocktail program, and hundreds of worthy cocktails. In 2010, Mote partnered in life and business with Chef Jonathan Chovancek, and Kale & Nori was born. Over the next two years they would tirelessly develop recipes and applications for extracts to become the bridge between culinary and the cocktail. Bittered Sling Extracts is a pipe-dream come to a tasty fruition, celebrating what beautiful ingredients can provide the palate, plate and potion.
Our line of ingredients is used across the board behind the bar and in the kitchen. Bittered Sling Extracts are literally translated to “Cocktail Extracts” offering creative minds more than just bittering agents and simple extracted ingredients.
All of our bitters are extracts, but not all of our extracts are bitter.
We have specific suggestions for the uses of each one, and several recipes – you can see a peak of what we mean here: www.kaleandnori.com/
As an example, we have chosen to make a powerful “orange” and “juniper” extract, which is used exactly the same way as you would a classic Orange Bitters, however ours absorbs the bittering agents from more than just barks – we want to ensure that each of our flavours and products have a powerful voice as a chorus of flavours and tasting notes rather than just “bitter” and “orange”. Our aromatic style bitters: Plum & Rootbeer, Moondog and Denman certainly fit to “bitter bill” right away, but have an intricate palate of complex flavours, and we assure you you’ve never had anything like our products before. Go crazy – replace Vanilla Extract with them, replace Angostura with them! This product line was developed and is still manufactured by an award-winning Bartender and Chef team, thusly making it an ubiquitous set of ingredients, like salt & pepper, in all areas of the food and beverage industry. It’s even delicious in sparkling water!
Where did the name “Bittered Sling” come from?
“Cocktail: a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water & bitters. It is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion.”
—The Balance, Hudson Repository Published on May 13, 1806, New York.
We pride ourselves on accurate research and application, in order to bring you a product that does as much for the mind and body as it does for the palate. Each extract promotes something different! Bittered Sling Extracts launched with a full range of flavours in June 2012 across Canada, through Qualifirst Foods Ltd. & Far-Met Importers Ltd.
Current Flavours
Moondog
This aromatic extract is smoky, earthy, rich and complex. This extract works best as a bridge between ingredients. *This extract is loaded with natural anti-inflammatory and digestive aids, and developed in part using the properties of Ayurvedic study.
Beverage recommendations:
This extract is most notable in a classic sour, or as an addition to dark spirits! Other classics like a Manhattan, Old Fashioned, or Boulevardier love Moondog, too.
Cooking recommendations:
Some of the BEST cookies in the world are meringue cookies, and our extracts stand up well to the low heat application of egg white baking. The Moondog extract transforms into a ginger-snap with bite! Use Moondog as a smokey finishing touch to a sauce, a chocolate cake or a vegetable soup!
Denman
This aromatic extract is inherently spicy and complex, a celebration of Vancouver’s “Denman Street” with a rich combination of several Asian & sub-Gobi cultural spices! *This extract is loaded with natural anti-inflammatory and digestive aids, and developed in part using the properties of Ayurvedic study.
Beverage recommendations:
Sometimes you’re missing that certain umph, oou or ahh, and we’re proud to announce that Denman adds that depth you’re looking for. From brown to white spirits, to beer cocktails and virgin mocktails, it adds a certain mouthfeel and long finish!
Cooking recommendations:
The spice of life – the sky is the limit for enhancements using Denman extract. It’s character changes with light heat, and a couple of drops while deglazing a pan adds instant Ayurvedic aromatherapy. The combination of spices and ingredients lends itself well to all culinary applications where a slightly spicy twist is desired.
Grapefruit & Hops
Bitter and herbaceous Grapefruit, with notes of spring and forest. The fresh-cut grass of the extract family. Made with Organic wild cascade hops from the BC Interior region. *Grapefruit is a natural lymphatic stimulant, promoting muscle and joint health, and enhances the body’s circulation. *Hops act as an effective sedative, relieves insomnia and is widely used as a nerve remedy.
Beverage recommendations:
Aromatic creations beg for this extract – an Aviation, a Negroni, a Caprihinia, a Margarita! This extract LOVES white spirits! As is true with our entire line, this extract is amazing just in sparkling water – thirst quenching and palate-cleansing.
Cooking recommendations:
Brilliant with fish and shellfish, replacing the final squeeze of citrus to deglaze or season. We love the herbaceous bitterness which pushes forward rich and spicy cuisine.
Orange & Juniper
Its floral, bitter, sweet, sour and bright. This extract captures the multi-level flavour notes of the perfect sweet orange. She lends herself well to all spirits, but white ones in particular! *Orange is a natural relief of heartburn, and strengthens the heart, and her muscles. *Juniper is a naturally effective relief in joint pain, arthritis and has been used for centuries to help calm coughs, bronchitis and gastro-intestinal infections.
Beverage recommendations:
Our Orange extract is different than most – we analyze the tasting notes of the sweet orange and branch off in a thousand directions! More than just the orange flavour and aroma, this extract is brilliant in anything – a wonderful all-purpose bright and fresh addition.
Cooking recommendations:
Cakes, dessert sauces, low sugar cookies and shortbreads love this extract’s botanicals and push a delicate sweetness forward on the palate. This is the ultimate finish for a turkey gravy or light poultry sauce.
Plum & Rootbeer
This is an extract celebrating the kid-like memories of the rootbeer float. Spicy, rich, everlasting and velvety, a beautiful way to share the ripe BC prune-plum all year round. *This extract is loaded with natural anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and digestive aids, and developed in part using the properties of Ayurvedic study.
Beverage recommendations:
We call this extract the wild-card. The unique combination of herbs and spices work with heavy and robust cocktails and sodas, as well as light and fragrant. Certainly the sneak attack extract!
Cooking recommendations:
Chocolate is a perfect match but this extract pushes dynamic flavour into ice creams, house made yoghurts, petit fours and candies. Beef juices deglazed become a sensual culinary experience adding depth and spice to the finished sauce.
Lem-Marrakech
Close your eyes, and take yourself away to the spice markets of Morocco. The smells, the sounds and the culture, this extract depicts the spice and complexity of the North-African marketplace. *This extract contains natural stomach fortifiers, and may relieve high body temperatures and fever, while being a mild digestive.
Beverage recommendations:
Exotic and invigorating spice, aromatic and citrus character, hypnotizing colour. This extract brightens and enhances sours, tea-based cocktails and sparkling beverages.
Cooking recommendations:
Poultry and white meat seasoning, seafood cures and vinaigrettes, shellfish lover, amazing with coconut and tropical fruits. Savoury cakes and sauces.
Shanghai Rhubarb (seasonal) available May 2013
This extract marks a colaboration of exotic spice from the East with the brilliant perfume of Fraser Valley Rhubarb. Red, rich and tart! *This extract contains natural stomach fortifiers, and may relieve high body temperatures and fever, while being a mild digestive.
Beverage recommendations:
This is such a versatile extract – from virgin drinks, to Tiki style cocktails, jazzing up a lemonade or a whiskey sour. It comes across on the palate silky, milky and delicious!
Cooking recommendations:
Dessert accents, creams and meringues, custards and curds, this extract also lends well to jellies and seafoods!
Suius Cherry (seasonal) available now
This extract is an example of Bing cherry brilliance, the pride of the Osoyoos summer season. With a complimentary set of ingredients, this extract is aromatic, bitter, sweet and savoury. A delicious force to be reckoned with. The name comes from “the land where the waters narrow”, Suius, or Osoyoos, BC. *This extract is rich in antioxidants, Vitamin C and potassium. Contains cholagogues, a group of bitter-tasting herbs partly responsible for bodily detoxification, mainly through the liver.
Beverage recommendations:
The Suius Cherry extract can play a dynamic role in several types of cocktails. As a bitters replacement in the classic “Sazerac” cocktail, it stands up well. Its rich ruby red colour adds a touch of depth to a cocktail’s appearance. The cherries add a natural sweetness to the extract that carries rather bitter ingredients ahead on the palate, making it an ideal match for rich spirits, like whiskey (Bourbon, American, Canadian and/or Scotch), slow-aged rums and brandies.
Cooking recommendations:
Coming soon.
Cascade Celery (seasonal) available June 2013
The cascading Rocky Mountains, majestic and beautiful, the window to the world. This extract is a complex, forested and herbaceous blend of ingredients, offering sweet and savoury tonality, all the while profiling one of nature’s most beautiful ingredients, wild celery. This ain’t your average “celery bitters”.
Beverage recommendations:
This extracts has fallen madly in love with vermouths. Vermouths and wine based spirit, lower in alcohol volume, captivate the subtle yet powerful nose and palate of this distinctive fresh and vegetal flavour. Although we don’t frown on the pairing of dark spirits, this extract shines on the palate with white spirits, intrinsically linking each ingredient together with subtle aroma and a remarkable balance.
Cooking recommendations:
Coming soon.
Clingstone Peach (seasonal) available now
She’s a clinger alright! Remarked as the juiciest, the sweetest and most succulent of all the peaches, the Clingstone’s flesh holds on to the pit for dear life – hence the name. Let your mouth sing with this gorgeous extract, with uplifting spicy back-notes. *This extract contains natural stomach fortifiers, and may relieve high body temperatures and fever, while being a mild digestive.
Beverage recommendations:
This is such a versatile extract – from virgin drinks, to Tiki style cocktails, jazzing up a lemonade or a whiskey sour. It comes across on the palate silky, milky and delicious!
Cooking recommendations:
Fruit curd, poultry sauces and dressings, stuffings, fish cures, ceviche, compound butter for fruit scones and muffins!
Western Elderberry (seasonal) available now
We were pleasantly surprised to experience the shift in flavour, character and compostition of our elderberry extract. What started as a bright, tart, delicate, tiny fruit, transformed into a naturally beautiful extract with subtle hints of anise, licorice and herbaceous, earthy character. *This extract contains natural influenza relieving properties, and has been used as such for centuries throughout several cultures.
Beverage recommendations:
This bush is often prized for its flowers, but the berries create an extraordinary subtle anise character, perfect for white spirits requiring a little dash of heaven.
Cooking recommendations:
This seasonal extract holds great acidity, warm spice and fruit juice bite! We love composing salad dressings, vinaigrettes and sauces with dried fruit, and using in poultry glazes. Light cookies and pastry sauces are perfectly seasoned with this unique and beautiful extract.
Cranberry (seasonal) available October 2013
Tart and bright, this extract acts partly as an acidulated compound, adding the “right stuff” where you need it most! *This extract contains naturally strong antioxidants, anti-adhesive properties, with excellent benefits for the urinary tract, cardiovascular and nervous systems.
Beverage recommendations:
This extract is so seasonal and special, in such limited supply when it arrives. Use as a light dash of “acid” to an otherwise flat creation. Again, this is the “right stuff”, a seasonal secret.
Cooking recommendations:
This seasonal extract holds great acidity, warm spice and fruit juice bite! We love composing salad dressings, vinaigrettes and sauces with dried fruit, and using in poultry glazes. Light cookies and pastry sauces are perfectly seasoned with this unique and beautiful extract.
Crabapple & Cardamom (seasonal) available Fall 2013
Never have we tasted an apple like this. The crabapple has high skin tannins, brilliant colour and a remarkably intense flavour. This gorgeous extract pairs perfectly with cardamom, and brings a subtly sweet depth and captivating perfume to all applications. *This extract contains natural fever, digestive and aphrodisiac properties, using 3000 year old theory and Ayurvedic ingredients.
Beverage recommendations:
Often challenging to use cardamom in beverages without creating dominancy, we have developed its relationship with crabapples as the ultimate flavour bond. Be creative with this one – it’s versatile, extraordinary and very special.
Cooking recommendations:
This seasonal extract holds great acidity, warm spice and fruit juice bite! We love composing salad dressings, vinaigrettes and sauces with dried fruit, and using in poultry glazes. Light cookies and pastry sauces are perfectly seasoned with this unique and beautiful extract.
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Current retailers:
CANADA
BC:
Qualifirst Foods LTD., Canada-wide
Okanagan Spirits, Okanagan Valley/Kelowna/Interior BC *shipping available across Canada/US*
Legacy Liquor Store, Vancouver BC
O5 Tea Bar, Vancouver BC
The Modern Bartender, Vancouver BC
Le Marche St. George, Vancouver BC
Liberty Wines, Vancouver BC
Harvest, Vancouver BC
Hillside Liquor Store, Victoria BC
Feys & Hobbs, Victoria BC
Cascadia Liquor Store, Courtenay BC
Long Table Distillery, Vancouver BC
Gourmet Warehouse, Vancouver BC
Edgemont Wines, North Vancouver BC
Edible Canada, Vancouver BC
AB:
The Silk Road Spice Merchant, Calgary AB
Vine Arts Wine & Spirits, Calgary AB
The Cookbook Co. Cooks, Calgary AB
ON:
BYOB Cocktail Emporium, Toronto ON
The Crafty Bartender, Toronto ON (online sales available CDN/US)
The Mercantile, Toronto ON
QC:
Alambika, Montreal QC
Latina, Montreal QC
AMERICA
Napa Valley Distillery, California
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Only Bitters, online store servicing Australia & New Zealand