Exclusive | It’ll put hair on your chest! LA bar creates boozy drink to honor squatter bear

It’ll put hair on your chest.

A boozy drink has been created in honor of the 550-pound bear that famously moved into the crawlspace of a California house for 37 days — and it’s “as close as you can get to the experience of smelling him,” the homeowner told The Post. 

Ken Johnson, 63, slugged down the honey-sweetened swill — dubbed “Yellow 2120” for the color and number of the state wildlife tag that had been on the bruin’s ear — with The Post at The Proper Restaurant and Bar in La Canada Flintridge, just a stone’s throw from his Altadena home where the bear squatted for weeks.

“This cocktail appropriately captures the scents and flavors of the bear’s presence,” Johnson said while enjoying a round Wednesday.

The drink is the brainchild The Proper head bartender Bianca Heer, who heard the photographer’s woes almost every night during the 37-day ordeal when he came in to drown his un-bear-able sorrows.

“We’ve been able to see and hear the entire story unfold in front of us and wanted to create something Ken could remember him by,” Heer told The Post.

So she worked with Johnson to mix the bear necessities and capture the “essence of the beast.”  

First up, Old Forester Bourbon in honor of the meant-to-be habitat of the bear, which was eventually rousted from his digs in Johnson’s LA home with paintballs filled with vegetable oil.

“Bears are supposed to be in the forest,” the mixologist said.

Then Cointreau because, “Ken says that the bear has a kind of a citrusy scent, so we went through a couple different orange liquors and landed on Cointreau.” Heer said.

The next ingredient is more obvious — a bear’s biggest love, honey. 

Topping off the concoction are some lemon juice and black walnut bitters for that “musky, woody flavor.”

The drink will be on the menu permanently for those who want to know what living with a bear tastes like.

“That’s him. Now everyone can know. It’s very delicious,” Johnson said of the drink.

“As frustrating as the experience was, it was worth it to see such a magnificent animal close up like that,” Johnson said of his close encounter of the furry kind. 

“It was a painful experience at times, but I’m glad I had it.”