Name: Obligatory Brooklyn
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Tennessee whiskey; 15 ml Vermouth alla vaniglia; 15 ml Ambrato vermouth; 10 ml Amaro Nonino Quintessentia; 7.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 5 ml Clementi Antico; 5 ml Chilled water

Obligatory Brooklyn
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Photographed in a ZigZag Coupe

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Tennessee whiskey
¹⁄₂ oz	Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth
¹⁄₂ oz	Ambrato/ambre/amber vermouth
¹⁄₃ oz	Amaro Nonino Quintessentia
¹⁄₄ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Clementi China Antico Elixir
¹⁄₆ oz	Chilled water

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and "obligatory cherries".
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish, along with skewered cherry.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Vermouth rosso alla vaniglia (e.g. Antica Formula), Ambrato/ambre/amber vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

Rich and slightly sweet but dried and balanced by herbal bitterness, perhaps the ultimate digestivo.

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History:

A riff on a classic Brooklyn cocktail created by Alex White and shared (in January 2021) via a comment on our Perfect Brooklyn page. Alex's original, very delicious, recipe calls for 7.5ml Luxardo Perla Dry in place of the easier to obtain maraschino liqueur I've used.

Nutrition:

One serving of Obligatory Brooklyn contains 202 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
23.61% alc./vol. (23.61° proof)
24.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Simon Sedgley

24th June at 19:24

This is one of those recipes that we call 'butterfly collector cocktails'. Unsatisfied with the simple lilting passing of a butterfly on a summer afternoon breeze, the urge is to pin them in ever increasing number in a box...in this case, in a Coupe glass. But never mind, it was a slow Sunday evening and the dishes were done so we said "why not?". We took liberties: substituting Rittenhouse Rye for the Tennessee Whiskey; substituting Cocchi Vermouth Amaro for the Carpano (too much vanilla for us); and substituting Cocchi Barolo Chinato for the Elixir (we have no idea if this is anywhere close as a substitute). And it was lovely, so bravo to the butterfly collector, but we will probably go for something simpler in future so that we can spend more time watching the butterflies.

Lee Clarke

2nd April 2022 at 15:04

Thanks Simon. It has to be the original ingredients, I agree.
Unless you downgrade it to 4.5!!! ????

Simon Difford

2nd April 2022 at 15:43

Then it would hardly be a challenge!

Lee Clarke

2nd April 2022 at 12:12

OMG. It’s gonna cost me £50+ to buy the Elixir and make this for my 5 Star challenge!!
That’s £10+ per ml in the cocktail!!! ???

Simon Difford

2nd April 2022 at 13:11

I also had to buy a bottle to make this. I'd hoped to be able to sub for something else in the recipe but the Elixir has a distinctive flavour and I wanted to stay true to Alex's creation. That said, if you have a China China I'd give it a try.