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The Bittered Sling Line Of Cocktail Bitters & Culinary Extracts Lands New Look

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Bittered Sling is an award-winning catering company and events company |bitteredsling.com @bittered_sling

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Vancouver, BC | Continuing to provide an inspired twist to cocktail culture across North America and beyond, Vancouver-based Bittered Sling has announced a fresh and exciting redesign of its award-winning line of small-batch cocktail bitters and culinary extracts beginning with its newly released Gift Pack 2.0 (MSRP $44.95 CAD/USD).

While Bittered Sling won’t change the handcrafted, high-quality tonics in each bottle, its Gift Pack 2.0 — which contains six 25-mL bottles of its most popular and versatile flavours — will trade Bittered Sling’s former apothecary design aesthetic for a new look that blends the colour, symmetrical balance and design elements of the turn-of-the-century Belle Époque of 1870-1920 when cocktail culture came of age, along with Machine-Age touches inspired by the Art Deco movement of 1920-‘40.

“With this redesign, we’ve planted one foot firmly in the past and have one eye fixed on the future,” says Lauren Mote, the bartender and sommelier who co-founded Bittered Sling in 2012 with her partner and celebrated chef Jonathan Chovancek. “La Belle Époque” or “Beautiful Era” was the golden age of cocktails, culture, art, music and theatre, and this new design pays homage to the history of bartending rather than just the history of bitters.”

Beyond the new design elements of the gift pack, the collection also makes way for two new flavours, as Kensington Dry Aromatic and Malagasy Chocolate — both of which garnered gold medals at the Beverage Testing Institute’s 2014 International Review of Spirits competition in Chicago — take their place alongside Orange & Juniper, Moondog, Grapefruit & Hops and Plum & Rootbeer. The latter two flavours also scored silver medals for Bittered Sling in the competition.

Bartenders, chefs and savvy cocktail aficionados alike will appreciate the new droppers that replace the original dasher tops, allowing for a more consistent application. In addition, the new colour-coded design scheme of each flavour will make for easier identification for bartenders and chefs working in fast-paced, low-light environments.

Bittered Sling’s Gift Pack 2.0 will be the first to sport the company’s new design and is now appearing on retail shelves across North America, just in time for the holiday season. The labels of all 15 of their 120-mL full size bottles will follow suit in the new year.

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The People Who Make It Happen

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Co-proprietor, Sommelier/Mixologist: Lauren Mote
Co-proprietor, Chef: Jonathan Chovancek

About Bittered Sling

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Bittered Sling celebrates the collaboration of chef Jonathan Chovancek and mixologist and sommelier Lauren Mote, who have contributed a combined 30 years of professional experience, knowledge and innovation to the Canadian food and beverage industry.

In 2010, Mote and Chovancek launched Vancouver-based boutique catering and events company Kale & Nori Culinary Arts — the predecessor to Bittered Sling — and quickly carved out a niche both locally and internationally for their unique products, dynamic and diverse cuisine and specialty cocktail creations. In 2013, Kale & Nori was singled out as Producer/Supplier of the Year at the 24th Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards for its brand of Bittered Sling Extracts.

Bittered Sling Extracts is a retail line of high-quality, small-batch bitters and extracts that provides palate, plate and potion with a subtle-yet-exciting fusion of homegrown ingredients and flavours. With aromatic labels such as Orange and Juniper, Plum and Rootbeer and Clingstone Peach, Bittered Sling underscores a singular and delicious irony that while all of their bitters are extracts, not all of their extracts are bitter. By the dash or the drop, each creation offers an intricate range of complex flavours that perfectly accentuates food, spirits and even sparkling water.

Twice a month over a six-month span, Mote and Chovancek host their popular and perennially sold-out Bittered Sling Bistro events at the Legacy Liquor Store in Olympic Village. A friendly competition between some of the region’s best bartenders now heading into its fourth season, each edition of the Bistro offers guests a feature spirit tasting accented by Bittered Sling Extracts and an indulgent three-course menu inspired by each particular spirit’s wide range of notes and character.