Launched in 2006 by German mixologists Stephan Berg and Alexander Hauck, The Bitter Truth revived a bitters style essential to the pre-prohibition cocktail. Their recipe combines fresh lemon zest with cardamom, coriander, and other botanicals that expand far beyond your usual citrus flavor profile. Originally developed to recreate lost cocktail ingredients, these lemon bitters are indispensable to the modern bar – perfect in everything from a gin martini to a whiskey sour.