Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters 5oz glass bottle

Fee Brothers has been a family-owned business based in Rochester, New York since 1864, producing bar essentials across five generations. What began as a company built around syrups, bitters, and other cocktail staples has grown into a wide catalog of flavored bitters, mixers, and botanical waters distributed to bars and home bartenders around the world.

Aztec Chocolate Bitters draws its concept from the bitter, spiced cacao drinks the Aztec civilization prepared for celebrations, reimagined as a modern cocktail bitters. The formula is built on a water base with natural and artificial cocoa flavoring, layered with cinnamon, nutmeg, and a capsicum tincture for gentle chili warmth. It is gluten free and vegan friendly, bottled at a relatively low proof compared to many spirit-based bitters on the market.

The bitters open with a wave of dark cocoa and toasted baking spice, with cinnamon and a whisper of chili heat building underneath. The palate leans bittersweet rather than dessert sweet, with the chili adding intrigue instead of overt heat, and the finish lingers with chocolate and warm spice that pairs naturally with aged rum, tequila, or bourbon.