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Bitters usually do contain an alcohol content, with some ranging as high as 45%. However, it would be pretty hard to get a buzz from bitters because they are usually used in such small amounts to flavor a drink.
America is late to the bitters game, actually. In Europe, bitters have long been used as medicine. Evidence of the world's first alcoholic beverage dating to, oh, 7,000 B.C. in China indicated it was a brew of grapes, rice, honey, and hawthorn berry, a bitter component which âtastes like hell,â Bitterman says. Technically, it was an amaroâa drinkable bitters.