King Floyd's Ginger Bitters 100ml bottle

King Floyd's Bar Provisions was founded by Lawrence Floyd Batterton, who started hand-crafting cocktail bitters for friends and the bartending community in San Francisco in 2013 before formally launching the brand in January of 2017. The name honors Batterton's father, from whom his middle name comes, while also nodding to Emperor Norton, the self-declared Emperor of San Francisco's Barbary Coast era. The company has since grown into a small-batch operation based in Novato, California, producing its bitters using a combination of hand grinding, maceration, and slow percolation of each botanical.

Ginger Bitters is built around organic ginger root extract, drawn out through the brand's signature slow extraction process, then blended with gentian root for bitterness and lightly sweetened with pure maple syrup rather than refined sugar. The mixture is tasted throughout development before final filtering and hand bottling, a method the brand has used since its earliest days making bitters for local bartenders. Ginger has long been valued as a digestive aid, and that traditional association carries through into this modern bottling.

On the palate, this bitters delivers a tangy, sharp burst of fresh ginger heat balanced against a rounder, faintly sweet maple undertone. The gentian keeps the overall profile properly bitter rather than dessert-like, so the ginger reads as vibrant and spicy rather than candied. It is a versatile, single-note style of bitters, useful anywhere a cocktail could use a little extra warmth and snap.