Garnish:
Skewered Luxardo Maraschino cherry
How to make:
STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.
1 1/2 fl oz | Straight rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.) |
1 1/2 fl oz | Strucchi Dry Vermouth |
1/3 fl oz | Amer Picon |
1/3 fl oz | Luxardo Maraschino liqueur |
1/3 fl oz | Chilled water (omit if using wet ice) |
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Review:
Perhaps my favourite of the many renditions of the Brooklyn cocktail due to being dry yet made approachable by faint sweet maraschino and bittersweet herbal complexity.
History:
One of the Manhattan variations named after New York's five boroughs.
Brooklyn cocktail history
Alcohol content:
- 2.3 standard drinks
- 26.69% alc./vol. (53.38° proof)
- 32 grams of pure alcohol
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