Drain the Swamp Martini

UpInArms | 04/01/2017 | UpInArms

[UpInArms]

Delectable Martini to celebrate draining the swamp. This is a serious drink and perfectly named for the times.

[UpInArms]

Makes two drinks:
4 jiggers gin (or vodka if you need the Russian connection)
6-8 leaves of fresh mint
1 tsp sugar, white
Ice

You need two Martini glasses (chill if you have the time)
Bowl
Spoon
Strainer
Shaker

Set aside two mint leaves for garnish. Muddle sugar and leaves using bowl and spoon until leaves go from light green to dark green. Add one jigger of liquor to mint and sugar. Chill mint, sugar, and liquor mix with glasses in freezer for about 1/2 hour. When you can longer wait, add ice and remaining three jiggers of liquor to shaker. Strain mint, sugar, and liquor into shaker. Shake until chilled. Pour into chilled glasses. Garnish with floating mint leaves. Toast DJT for draining the swamp and then drain the swamp in your glass.

The drink is yellow green with specks of green. Skip the straining and add all the muddled mint to the glass if you want a more DC swamp representative murky drink.

[gettinolder]

Incredible!

Thank you!

[lee martell]

I’ll take mine Shaken, not Stirred.
If I get into a certain mood, this would also work with Ouzo or Schnapps.

[UpInArms]

For my wife and I, when it's 5:00 Somewhere at the end of the week, and it's time to celebrate the progress in draining the swamp by President Trump, this will be our go to drink.

I hope you try the recipe and enjoy. Salute!

[Paladin2]

Or Aquavit.

[Fiddlstix]

[Mears]

Good lord,that sounds good.

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[CGASMIA68]

Strain mint, sugar, and liquor into shaker

sounds ok but isn’t the mixture from the freezer to thick and frozen to strain, can we just dump it into the shaker?

[CGASMIA68]

PS.My Beefeater resides in the freezer along with the “works” aka shaker and glasses

[UpInArms]

Chill not freeze; however, the liquor, sugar, and mint oil will pass through the strainer. Or, just dump the whole swampy mess into the shaker, shake, then strain. Or don’t strain at all if you want the D.C. look in your glass. BTW: this is not a sweet drink. The sugar just pops the mint.