On one of our recent trips to Brooklyn's Red Hook area we visited a great Spirits store Dry Dock Wine & Spirits. we picked up a bottle of Breuckelen Gin. This particular spirit is the creation of Brooklyn's Brad Estabrooke who was inspired to create this spirit after having read an article about how distilling laws were being modified to allow for more distilleries to open and flourish. He was laid off from his finance job in '08 and has been working as a distiller ever since. The spelling of the gin is apparently one of the older forms of the spelling of Brooklyn which seems appropriate as the spirit has a great kind of early American bite to it that makes me think of a film like Drums Along the Mowhawk with it's colonial politics and dark, cozy taverns with men sitting around in tri corner hats smoking a clay pipe. It was fun for us to bring a bottle back as it is widely available in Brooklyn, Manhattan and even upstate but thus far not on Long Island...
