NOYO HARBOR BITTERS
Elevate your cocktail game with the Noyo Harbor Inn’s new retail line of Organic Bitters, created by resident mixologist Laura Spradlin.
Laura—who is the bar manager at our HarborView Bistro & Bar—is known as the “Mendocino Coast’s cocktail maven” with more than 30 years of experience in creating signature craft cocktails and inventive homemade bitters.
Each bottle of our Noyo Harbor Inn Organic Bitters is sourced and created by Laura. “I infuse whole-grain alcohol with dried and cured flowers, fruit, herbs and spices, many of which are grown locally,” Laura says. “I like to create intriguing flavor profiles that provide a memorable experience for our guests—and now you can bring these flavors back home with you.”
You can purchase the bitters here in our gift shop for $21, or email info@noyoharborinn.com to order online – there is an $8.95 domestic shipping charge.
Candy Cap Mushroom | $21
Wild candy cap mushrooms are found in abundance on the Mendocino Coast. These light brown mushrooms emanate sweet aromas of maple sugar or burnt sugar. The white, sweet liquid from these fungi lends itself beautifully to our bitters from which we make our famed Candy Cap Mushroom Old-Fashioned Cocktail. Try it yourself—you’ll love it.
Black Currant Charred Cedar | $21
Black currant is a cooler climate shrub that thrives among our North Coast forests. The berries are known for their antioxidant properties, and the flavor profile is often described as earthy, smokey, savory, herbaceous and floral. When infused along with charred cedar into our whole-grain alcohol, it’s pure alchemy! Thus, our favorite use for these bitters is our Black Magic Blackberry Mojito. We invite you to try your own enchanting creation!
Habanero and Lime | $21
The habanero chili’s heat, flavor and floral aroma make it the ideal complement to the refreshing, tangy aspects of fresh lime. These bitters are nothing but delicioso in our Spicy Bloody Mary. Why not make one for yourself?
Burnt Orange | $21
Singed citrus makes our bitters sing! Charring an orange transforms its flavor. The intense high heat caramelizes its natural sugars, which emphasizes the “orange” flavor while minimizing acidity and introducing a tad of bitterness. Burnt orange is beautiful in bourbon or negroni . . . and we especially love it in our Pomegranate Thyme Margarita.
Lilac | $21
Typically only in bloom for two weeks in late spring, lilacs are like catching lightning! Our inn’s tenacious bar manager has been known to beg for lilac blooms from complete strangers in the neighborhood. Such is her passion for perfection! A flowering woody plant related to the olive family, the lilac emits a subtle, relaxing fragrance and tastes mildly sweet with faint citrus notes and a hint of bitterness. Our Noyo Harbor Lilac Bitters are simply heaven in our Lilac Martini. Shake one up for yourself!
Tiki Tiki | $21
With flavors of warm spices, tropical fruit and citrus, the Tiki Tiki bitters is truly a taste of island life. Tiki Tiki imparts a sophisticated and nuanced feel to the inn’s North Shore Cocktail and especially the Saturn Cocktail, which is composed of Barr Hill Gin, velvet falernum, passion fruit syrup, lemon juice, orgeat, house-made Tiki Tiki bitters and house-made Honey bitters. Barr Hill Gin is ideal in that it is distilled with juniper in a custom-built botanical extraction still, and is finished with raw honey-- the delivery vessel for countless other botanicals, which adds a hint of sweetness to balance the juniper. With Tiki Tiki bitters, your cocktails are sure to be a South Seas success!
Cherry Hazelnut | $21
Think high-end, lush Chukar cherries from Pikes Place Public Market in Seattle. Pair those with organic hazelnuts. The result? A complexity of flavor and color that fuses beautifully with whiskey and other spices. This bitters has dramatically transformed the inn’s Cherry Blossom Old Fashioned cocktail, and it will yours, too!
Honey | $21
The Honey bitters adds depth to any type of honey-forward cocktail. We’ve taken Barr Hill organic raw honey and fused it with other botanicals, herbs, dried flowers and black tea. This is an ethereal nectar that will take your cocktails to heavenly places!
Chocolate | $21
The Chocolate bitters is so popular that we can hardly keep up with demand! It is simply stunning when paired with our Coffee Pecan bitters and used in our Chocolate Martini and Espresso Martini. We credit the premium coco nibs, vanilla, baking spices and herbs for producing utter alchemy.
Scorched Pear and Ginger | $21
The deep flavor of pear with a hint of ginger rings true in our Scorched Pear and Ginger bitters. We created this concoction for our Pear-Spiced Martini and the guests keep cozying up for more.
Black Walnut | $21
Composed of black walnut husks, Elijah Craig bourbon, spices and herbs, this bitters imparts a slightly nutty flavor. We particularly love it in our famed Candy Cap Old Fashioned, to which we add our house made Candy Cap bitters—adding a hint of maple flavor, too. It’s a recipe for comforting depth and complexity.
Lavender Rose | $21
Using fresh lavender and rose buds from our inn’s organic garden, this bitters was designed for the Lavender Mule on our cocktail menu. The bitters imparts a distinct flavor of lavender so that we don’t have to add more sweetness to the cocktail. If you feel like floating on a summer breeze, this is the ticket!
Jalapeno and Lime | $21
The bright and fresh aspects of this bitters has transformed the inn’s Spicy Bloody Mary as well as its Charred Pineapple Jalapeno Margarita. We believe deeply in clarifying our cocktails—removing unwanted particles in order to improve the flavor, texture and appearance. Our aim is to always to produce beautiful cocktails that people will remember, and we hope that—at home—you can, too!
