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Brooklyn

Classic/vintage · Hall of Fame and must know/try · Nightcap/sipping

4.7 96 ratings

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Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Rye whiskey 50% abv
1 1/2 oz Dry vermouth
1/3 oz Amer Picon
1/3 oz Maraschino liqueur
1/3 oz Chilled water

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with skewered cherry.

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Flavour profile

50.0% alc./vol. · 2 standard drinks · 211 calories

History

A dry yet approachable variation of the Brooklyn cocktail, with faint maraschino and bittersweet herbal complexity.

The Brooklyn Cocktail, one of several Manhattan variations named after New York's five boroughs, drew inspiration from the already popular Manhattan and Bronx cocktails. The earliest known printed mention of the Brooklyn Cocktail appears in Jacob A. Grohusko's 1908 Jack's Manual. BROOKLYN COCKTAIL 1 dash Amer. Picon bitters 1 dash Maraschino 50% rye whiskey 50% Ballor Vermouth Fill glass with ice. Stir and strain. Serve. Jacob 'Jack' Grohusko, who was the head bartender at Baracca's Restaurant on Wall Street in lower Manhattan, resided in Hoboken, New Jersey. His only indirect connection to Brooklyn was that Victor Baracca, the owner of Baracca's, hailed from the borough. Nevertheless, he immortalized the area in the cocktail world. In 1913, Jacques Straub included a version of the cocktail in his Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks that utilized French [dry] vermouth, differing from the Italian [sweet] vermouth featured in Grohusko's recipe. BROOKLYN COCKTAIL 1 Dash Amer Picon. 1 Dash Maraschino. ½ Jigger French Vermouth. ½ Jigger good Rye Whiskey. Stir. The Brooklyn can also be found in Harry Cradock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book, prepared with 2/3 Canadian Club whisky and 1/3 French vermouth, along with dashes of Amer Picon and Maraschino. Patrick Gavin Duffy's 1934 Official Mixer's Manual also favored the ratio of 2/3 rye whiskey to 1/3 French vermouth. BROOKLYN COCKTAIL. 1 Dash Amer Picon. 1 Dash Maraschino. ⅔ Canadian Club Whisky. ⅓ French Vermouth. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass BROOKLYN COCKTAIL 1 Dash Amer Picon 1 Dash Maraschino ⅔ Rye Whisky ⅓ French Vermouth Stir well in ice and strain.