Price: $9
Ingredients: Luxardo amaretto, Imbue Bittersweet Vermouth, sauerkraut brine, lemon juice, orange zest
Inventor: Bar manager Billy Weston
Origin: This play on an amaretto sour is Bronwyn’s first cocktail featuring sauerkraut brine, but Weston has incorporated the kitchen’s ingredients into drinks before. “The kitchen and the bar have sort of a symbiotic relationship,” he says. Other culinary castoffs that find their way into drinks include rumtopf—“essentially a rum, sugar and fruit infusion”—and ginger tea.
Flavor: You’ll find sweetness and nuttiness from the amaretto, bitterness from the vermouth and a “pickle-y funk” from the sauerkraut juice that’s finished with the lemon’s “little pop of acidity.” And it all works. Weston notes, “It’s definitely a drink that requires somebody to be OK with a sweeter style of cocktail, but it’s not a sweet cocktail…. It hits you with the sour punch.”
Pair It With: The Sauerbraten ($26). “It’s a sweet and sour braised beef brisket.”
Variations: Look to the brunch menu for another sip with sauerkraut: It’s blended into the Bloody Mary.
Philosophy: “Beer is the driving force behind the bar, for sure,” Weston says. But guests will also find nine house cocktails, seasonal offerings and 14 schnapps (plus another five off the menu). When it comes to his customers, he says, “I [take] cues on what they’re not saying, in order to give them exactly what they need. Not what they want, what they need.” He enjoys making something you may not have initially gone for—like a cocktail with sauerkraut brine.
Bronwyn | 225 Washington St., Somerville | 617-776-9900 | bronwynrestaurant.com
Kraut-aretto Sauer
By Sarah Hagman | Photo Credit: Holly Rike | June 5, 2014
Price: $9
Ingredients: Luxardo amaretto, Imbue Bittersweet Vermouth, sauerkraut brine, lemon juice, orange zest
Inventor: Bar manager Billy Weston
Origin: This play on an amaretto sour is Bronwyn’s first cocktail featuring sauerkraut brine, but Weston has incorporated the kitchen’s ingredients into drinks before. “The kitchen and the bar have sort of a symbiotic relationship,” he says. Other culinary castoffs that find their way into drinks include rumtopf—“essentially a rum, sugar and fruit infusion”—and ginger tea.
Flavor: You’ll find sweetness and nuttiness from the amaretto, bitterness from the vermouth and a “pickle-y funk” from the sauerkraut juice that’s finished with the lemon’s “little pop of acidity.” And it all works. Weston notes, “It’s definitely a drink that requires somebody to be OK with a sweeter style of cocktail, but it’s not a sweet cocktail…. It hits you with the sour punch.”
Pair It With: The Sauerbraten ($26). “It’s a sweet and sour braised beef brisket.”
Variations: Look to the brunch menu for another sip with sauerkraut: It’s blended into the Bloody Mary.
Philosophy: “Beer is the driving force behind the bar, for sure,” Weston says. But guests will also find nine house cocktails, seasonal offerings and 14 schnapps (plus another five off the menu). When it comes to his customers, he says, “I [take] cues on what they’re not saying, in order to give them exactly what they need. Not what they want, what they need.” He enjoys making something you may not have initially gone for—like a cocktail with sauerkraut brine.
Bronwyn | 225 Washington St., Somerville | 617-776-9900 | bronwynrestaurant.com
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