Classic cocktail · Guided recipe
Greenpoint
Start makingA Brooklyn cousin with yellow Chartreuse: rye, sweet vermouth and herbal liqueur with a double hit of bitters.
In the glassRye whiskey · Yellow Chartreuse · Sweet vermouth · Angostura bitters · Orange bitters
See exact amounts
What goes in
Ingredients

Set up before you pour
Use a coupe glass.
The stem keeps your hand away from a cold drink, while the rounded bowl makes an up serve easy to sip.
- Standard size
- 200 ml6¾ oz
- Ice & serve
- Chill it first; serve without ice.
- If you don’t own one
- Use a small martini glass or stemmed dessert glass.
- cocktail shaker
- strainer (or a small sieve)
- jigger or measuring spoon
- Rye whiskey45 ml
- Yellow Chartreuse15 ml
- Sweet vermouth15 ml
- Angostura bitters1 dash
- Orange bitters1 dash
From bottle to glass
Method
- 01

Measure into the shaker Pour 45 ml rye whiskey into your shaker
Rye whiskey
- 02

Measure into the shaker Add 15 ml yellow chartreuse
Yellow Chartreuse
- 03

Measure into the shaker Add 15 ml sweet vermouth
Sweet vermouth
- 04

Measure into the shaker Add 1 dash Angostura
Angostura bitters
- 05

Measure into the shaker Add 1 dash orange bitters
Orange bitters
- 06

Ice the shaker Fill the shaker with ice
- 07

Seal and shake Seal and shake hard
- 08

Strain cleanly Strain into a chilled glass — no ice
- 09

Finish the drink Finish it — add a dehydrated citrus wheel
Know your drink
About the Greenpoint

The Brooklyn's neighborhoods
The original Brooklyn calls for maraschino and Amer Picon, and Picon has been hard to find in the States for decades. Rather than fake it, New York bartenders built a whole family of replacements and named them after neighborhoods. Red Hook, Bensonhurst, Little Italy, Greenpoint. Each keeps the rye and rebuilds the rest out of bottles you can actually buy.
Yellow Chartreuse earns its place on a shelf for this drink alone. It is the gentler of the two Chartreuses, around 40% and sweetened with honey, tasting of saffron, hay and dried orange peel. It also stands in for green in a Last Word if you want that drink softer. Keep the bottle in a dark cupboard, since light dulls the herbal top notes inside a year.
Common questions
Greenpoint FAQ
I only have green Chartreuse. Will it work?
It will, but drop it to about 10 ml. Green Chartreuse runs 55% ABV against yellow's 40%, and its bitterness is far louder, so a full 15 ml flattens the rye and pushes the whole drink toward medicine.
Which bitters belong in a Greenpoint?
A dash of Angostura and a dash of orange, both of them. Angostura backs up the baking-spice side of the rye while orange bitters keep the Chartreuse lifted and bright. Use only one and the drink lands either flat or oddly perfumed.
What rye should I buy for this?
Something bottled at 45 to 50% ABV. There is 30 ml of sweet, aromatic liqueur and vermouth in the glass, and a soft 40% rye vanishes underneath it. Rittenhouse or Wild Turkey 101 hold their shape. A high-rye bourbon works too, rounder and sweeter.
How is this different from a Red Hook?
Same rye base, different sweet half. A Red Hook uses Punt e Mes and maraschino, so it lands bitter and nutty with a cherry-pit edge. Yellow Chartreuse sends the Greenpoint toward honey, saffron and dried herbs instead. The Red Hook is the drier of the two.
My vermouth has been open a while. Does that matter?
Here it matters more than in a Negroni, where Campari covers everything. Sweet vermouth fades within about a month in the fridge and takes the drink with it, dull and faintly raisiny. Buy 375 ml bottles and write the opening date on the cap.
What ingredients are in a Greenpoint?
A classic Greenpoint calls for 45 ml (1.5 oz) Rye whiskey, 15 ml (0.5 oz) Yellow Chartreuse, 15 ml (0.5 oz) Sweet vermouth, 1 dash Angostura Angostura bitters, 1 dash orange bitters Orange bitters. That single-serve spec scales cleanly — the recipe above converts it to oz and multiplies it for 2–4 drinks.
How strong is a Greenpoint?
A standard Greenpoint is roughly 38% ABV once mixed (before ice melt softens it further). That makes it spirit-forward — closer to a Martini than to a beer, so sip it slowly.
Sharpen the technique







