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Greenpoint

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A Brooklyn cousin with yellow Chartreuse: rye, sweet vermouth and herbal liqueur with a double hit of bitters.

Preparation~3 minEasyStrengthStrongabout 38% ABVMethodShaken9 guided stepsIngredients5Coupe or martini glass
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In the glassRye whiskey · Yellow Chartreuse · Sweet vermouth · Angostura bitters · Orange bitters

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Greenpoint in a clear shallow coupe styled in a refined warehouse tasting bar with rough brick, charred oak and one high factory window.
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What goes in

Ingredients

An empty clear coupe glass with a shallow rounded bowl and slender stem.
Serving glassCoupe glass

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 ml oz
Ice & serve
Chill it first; serve without ice.
If you don’t own one
Use a small martini glass or stemmed dessert glass.
Tools to set out
  • cocktail shaker
  • strainer (or a small sieve)
  • jigger or measuring spoon
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Scale to your coupe or martini glassWe’ll remember this glass size.
  • Rye whiskey45 ml
  • Yellow Chartreuse15 ml
  • Sweet vermouth15 ml
  • Angostura bitters1 dash
  • Orange bitters1 dash

From bottle to glass

Method

  1. 01
    Instructional sketch: Measure and pour spirit whiskey into the shaker tin without serving ice.
    Measure into the shaker

    Pour 45 ml rye whiskey into your shaker

    • Rye whiskey
  2. 02
    Instructional sketch: Measure and pour liqueur herbal into the shaker tin without serving ice.
    Measure into the shaker

    Add 15 ml yellow chartreuse

    • Yellow Chartreuse
  3. 03
    Instructional sketch: Measure and pour liqueur orange into the shaker tin without serving ice.
    Measure into the shaker

    Add 15 ml sweet vermouth

    • Sweet vermouth
  4. 04
    Instructional sketch: Measure and pour pantry bitters into the shaker tin without serving ice.
    Measure into the shaker

    Add 1 dash Angostura

    • Angostura bitters
  5. 05
    Instructional sketch: Measure and pour pantry bitters into the shaker tin without serving ice.
    Measure into the shaker

    Add 1 dash orange bitters

    • Orange bitters
  6. 06
    Instructional sketch: Add cubed ice to the shaker tin.
    Ice the shaker

    Fill the shaker with ice

  7. 07
    Instructional sketch: Seal the two-piece shaker and shake it firmly with both hands.
    Seal and shake

    Seal and shake hard

  8. 08
    Instructional sketch: Strain the orange cocktail from the shaker into the coupe glass without serving ice.
    Strain cleanly

    Strain into a chilled glass — no ice

  9. 09
    Instructional sketch: Finish the orange drink in the coupe glass without serving ice with Dehydrated Wheel.
    Finish the drink

    Finish it — add a dehydrated citrus wheel

Know your drink

About the Greenpoint

An Old Fashioned, Whiskey Sour and sparkling whiskey highball in a warm library bar.

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.