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Grohusko was head bartender at Wall Street’s Baracca’s Restaurant in the early 1900s when the.and the newly created Bronx cocktail were two of the most popular mixed drinks of the day.

It's thought that he created the Brooklyn cocktail to capitalize on the acclaim of drinks named after New York boroughs..While the Manhattan (and the Bronx, to some degree) survived Prohibition, the Brooklyn fell into relative obscurity until the early 2000s, when it found a resurgence during the modern craft cocktail boom..Many attribute the cocktail’s initial disappearance to a crucial ingredient in the drink, and one that was nearly impossible to source in the U.S. — Amer Picon, a French liqueur with complex notes of bittersweet orange peel.. Once the Brooklyn resurfaced, it became a favorite of bartenders, particularly to riff on.

It was around this time that the Brooklyn became less of a Manhattan variation and was instead the template from which a new family of cocktails evolved, named for Brooklyn neighborhoods such as the.Most feature a rye whiskey base, vermouth, and, usually, some kind of bitter element.. What makes the Brooklyn work.

The Brooklyn is a stirred, spirit-forward cocktail.

It’s big, boozy, and bittersweet — a hallmark of pre-Prohibition cocktails and exactly the kind of creation bartenders gravitated to in the mid-2000s.Hestan’s OvenBond Collection.

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