Name: Brooklyn (perfect)
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Whiskey - Rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.); 15 ml Vermouth - Dry; 15 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth; 10 ml Amer Picon; 10 ml Maraschino liqueur; 10 ml Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

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.)
1/2 fl oz	Noilly Prat Extra Dry
1/2 fl oz	Martini Rosso sweet 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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Rittenhouse bottled-in-bond straight rye whiskey, 70cl

£ 43.45 £ 2.80 per cocktail, makes 15.5 Martini Rosso sweet vermouth, 75cl

£ 10.45 £ 0.21 per cocktail, makes 50 Picon Amer, 100cl

£ 18.95 £ 0.19 per cocktail, makes 100

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Review:

A perfect Manhattan with bittersweet liqueur rather than aromatic bitters and a balancing dash of sweet maraschino liqueur.

If you can't obtain Picon Amer then consider substituting with 5ml Bigallet China-China, 5ml chilled water, and 1.25ml triple sec.

Variant:

Greenpoint; Obligatory Brooklyn

History:

Brooklyn cocktail history

Nutrition:

One serving of Brooklyn (perfect) contains 193 calories.

Alcohol content:

2.1 standard drinks
27.97% alc./vol. (55.94° proof)
29.4 grams of pure alcohol

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