Any Chinotto Brio fans on here?

Re:Any Chinotto Brio fans on here? (analei)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:01:54 GMT

You are quite welcome.

Re:Any Chinotto Brio fans on here? (Michael Hoffman)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:48:28 GMT

Thank you very much. That's kind of you.

Re:Any Chinotto Brio fans on here? (analei)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:44:08 GMT

Oh, it's that simple.

From the posts you make on here, Mr. Hoffman, you have an excellent sense of good things.

Thank you.

Re:Any Chinotto Brio fans on here? (Michael Hoffman)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:39:02 GMT

Gin and bitters? Just pour some gin and shake a few drops of bitters into the gin. By the way, chinotto is also used to make Campari. So a soda with bitters and a campari and soda taste pretty much the same.

Re:Any Chinotto Brio fans on here? (analei)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:35:06 GMT

Well, I was so pleased with this Angostura product this weekend. I thought..wow, what a pleasant discovery for me. That sounds like a drink that is appealing! How do you do you make it.

I also did not know that either until I checked it out on-line.

Something about bitters makes things more appealing to the palate.

Re:Any Chinotto Brio fans on here? (Michael Hoffman)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:26:22 GMT

While I am more than familiar with Angostura bitters -- nothing like a gin and bitters, you know -- I'd never heard of Chinotto before. I now know that chinotto is a fruit that is used in making bitters.

Any Chinotto Brio fans on here? (analei)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:47:20 GMT

When we were kids, we had Brio, but others had Coke or Pepsi. Of course, you want to be like other kids, so I took a preferece for those others, but with time, I went back to Brio. I never could approximate the flavour until I went to buy Angostura Bitters this weekened for an ice cream recipe that called for it. After tasting what it was, I thought I would prefer it in drink than in an ice cream recipe.

It reminded quite a bit of Brio pop.

Anyone else think so (provided you are familiar with both Brio and Angostura Bitters)?