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Grohusko’s Brooklyn Cocktail

Updated: Jun 4

PH factor: 8.5












Ingredients:

Cocktail

o 1 ½ ounces Heaven’s Door

Straight Rye whiskey

o 1 ½ ounces Lillet Rouge

o 1 dash Maraschino liqueur

o 1 dash Fernet~Branca

o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters

or to taste

Garnish

o orange twist (optional)


Method:

1. Stir cocktail ingredients

over ice in a mixing glass.

2. Serve up in a cocktail glass.

3. Garnish with an orange

twist (optional).


Comments:

The saying, you can never go

home again, definitely applies

to Brooklyn, the cocktail not

the borough. Jacob A.

Grohusko’s 1908 recipe called

for sweet vermouth and Amer

Picon which, due to a ban by

the FDA, is no longer available

here. And you thought

Prohibition was over.

. . .

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