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Light Cocktail Bitters
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Light Cocktail Bitters

Alcohol-free cocktail bitters for light drinks — green, zesty, and herbal with lime, grapefruit, rosemary, and kombu in a vegetable glycerin base, from Ben Branson.

About This Drink

Where Seasn DARK is built for whisky-adjacent drinks, LIGHT is the citrus-and-herb counterpart designed for lighter spirits, margarita-style cocktails, and martinis. Same format — 100ml, 0.0% ABV, vegetable glycerin base — but with a completely different botanical brief. The LIGHT formula uses lime, grapefruit, rosemary, and kombu (a dried kelp used in Japanese cooking for its umami and brightness), plus king of bitters, quassia, and malic acid. The quassia adds a clean, dry bitterness without the roasted quality you get from gentian root, and the kombu gives a faint saline note that works well in citrus cocktails. The overall character is green, zesty, and herbal. Three dashes into a sparkling water with lime turns it into something genuinely interesting. In a margarita-style build it adds the aromatic complexity that the drink usually gets from the aged tequila. Like the DARK version, it is sugar-free, vegan, and non-GMO, with 50 serves per bottle. At £14.99 it asks you to commit to the concept, but if you're building a serious AF bar cabinet, both the LIGHT and DARK are worth having.

Ingredients

Vegetable glycerin (55%), water, king of bitters, lime, grapefruit, rosemary, kombu, quassia, natural flavours, salt, malic acid, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate

Dietary

VEGAN

Tasting Notes

Taste

LIME CITRUS GRAPEFRUIT HERBAL ROSEMARY CLEAN DRY BITTERNESS FAINT SALINE NOTE

Aroma

GREEN AND ZESTY: LIME GRAPEFRUIT PEEL ROSEMARY KOMBU UMAMI

Character

Appearance
PALE OLIVE-GREEN OPAQUE
Mouthfeel
CONCENTRATED VISCOUS FROM VEGETABLE GLYCERIN BASE
Finish
DRY CLEAN HERBAL-CITRUS WITH LINGERING QUASSIA BITTERNESS

Production

Concentrated bitters using vegetable glycerin as alcohol-free carrier base; 100ml bottle yields 50 serves at 3 dashes each

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Where to Buy

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330ml
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£19.00

Dietary

VEGAN

Tasting Notes

Taste

LIME CITRUS GRAPEFRUIT HERBAL ROSEMARY CLEAN DRY BITTERNESS FAINT SALINE NOTE

Aroma

GREEN AND ZESTY: LIME GRAPEFRUIT PEEL ROSEMARY KOMBU UMAMI

Character

Appearance
PALE OLIVE-GREEN OPAQUE
Mouthfeel
CONCENTRATED VISCOUS FROM VEGETABLE GLYCERIN BASE
Finish
DRY CLEAN HERBAL-CITRUS WITH LINGERING QUASSIA BITTERNESS

Production

Concentrated bitters using vegetable glycerin as alcohol-free carrier base; 100ml bottle yields 50 serves at 3 dashes each