What are everyone’s recommendations for dasher bottles to use? Angostura, Fee’s, Peychaud’s, Regan’s, etc… all come out in differing amounts. I would like to have a standard dasher bottle to transfer my bitters into.
What are you using now? I had a collection of old vintage bottles, but replaced all the dashers to the same type to standardize the flow, as you’re seeking. This involved an unpleasant amount of cork sourcing and boring, and in the end, I found the corks disgusting. I ended up buying a set of the DashDart aluminum screw-on dashers (in four colors) from Cocktail Kingdom. They work reasonably well and you can find cheap bottles of almost any size to fit them. They have no seal though and they can leak, so I added a Peychaud’s size orifice reducer under each one. Now, no leaks. Only real problem is on the black one. The two black ones I have (used for Angostura) tend to clog. I’ve never gotten around to seeing if the problem is the dasher, or the Angostura.
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The most accurate thing to do is get dropper bottles and figure out the distance up the tube that equals a dash (depends on whether it’s constricted or open like the Bittermens) but it’s around a centimeter. You can count drops as well but that gets tiresome and time consuming if you’re doing volume (and you’re not Cure in New Orleans). Dropper bottles will get around the container volume aspect since dasher bottles are not consistent when they are all the way full or closer to empty. And unlike dart tips, they don’t dry out and gum up the opening since they’re closed when not in use.
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Sounds like a plan to me.
At the moment I’m just using the bottles that the bitters came in. But, I’m looking for standardization. Based on what Fred says, I’ll probably go with dropper bottles unless someone else has other ideas.
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