House of Angostura: Appetite, Digestion, Trial and error, Royal Warrant, George V of the United Kingdom, Bark, Angostura trifoliata, Cocktails

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The House of Angostura is a Trinidad and Tobago company famous for the production of angostura bitters, invented by the company's founder. The company is also a distiller and is the major producer of rum in Trinidad and Tobago. The company also has been used as a vehicle for international expansion by its parent company, CL Financial. As a result of these acquisitions, the company owns distillers in the United States, Canada, The Bahamas and Suriname. The company was founded around 1830 in Ciudad Bolívar by a German doctor, Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, Surgeon-General in Simon Bolivar's army in Venezuela. Around 1820 he tried to find a medicine to improve appetite and digestive well- being of the soldiers