Posted on 01/05/2022 12:36:33 PM PST by mylife
I will always love the dirty martini. It was my gateway into the wild and wonderful world of gin, and I love any excuse to drink brine. After all, the key to making a classic dirty martini lies in letting the brine replace—rather than supplement—some of the vermouth, so as not to over-dilute the gin.
A ratio of 2-1/4 ounce gin, 1/2-ounce brine, and 1/4-ounce vermouth makes a beautifully salty gin drink, but even a flawless classic can use an update every now and again. Here are four ways you can filth your cocktail up a little, should you ever need to break out of this very specific rut.
Switch out the brine I have been shouting about the pickletini for years, and a lot of people have shouted back right back at me. Some of those shouts have been hurtful, but I remain steadfast in my dedication to this salty, sour cocktail. Using pickle brine instead of olive brine adds acid to your drink, invigorating it with brightness.
A standard neon green dill brine works quite well, as does the Trader Joe’s cornichon brine, or any other liquid that serves as the brining agent for a cucumber pickle. I’m also quite partial to pickled green tomato brine, caper brine, pickled onion brine (for a dirty Gibson), and pickled ginger brine. Pretty much any brine will work, is what I’m saying.
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Alcohol gives you man-boobs
I’ll stick with my Vesper martinis. After the two bottles of Sake, I’ll be making one of those.
Yeah, not gonna remember anything this evening....
I have never cared for much brine in my martini. Just the tiniest of splashes for me. And I only like martinis with gin.
Gin and dry vermouth. Anything else is an abomination and definitely isn’t a martini.
Yep, use a spray nebulizer for the vermouth, spray about 10 times and that's it.
I prefer a very very cold vodka martini. I came up with what I call a Cajun Martini, I just substitute tabasco sauce for the vermouth and a pickled okra for the olive. Reading this dirty martini article makes me think a smoky hot sauce might be interesting.
Even a small of gin hurts the next morning.
The vodka martini has become a common and popular cocktail. It is not a true martini, which is made with gin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka_martini
I don’t understand why one would add brine that is barely potable to a fine gin.
Drink crap lke Gin. One of the few things that can actually poison you, if ya drank enough of it.
Accepted in Society, along with Big Macs and Fribbles, that will also kill you if you eat enough of it.
But ya’ll yell at people for smoking weed, that no matter how much effin weed you smoke, it won’t kill you.
Fry your brain and make you really hungry.
(Of course smoking anythinbg is bad cuz of lung cancer and all, but that’s another talk for another day.)
Twisted, folks, ya’ll are just twisted.
Would love to see a Bong Party, or a huge floor-standing Golden Hookah in the White House, with lots of classy folks all glassy eyed and shiite, just slow dancing around the Christmas Tree.
Never had one.....wondered what it looked like.
Vodka with pickled beet juice and a dollop of sour cream on top - Borschtini
With sauerkraut brine - Krautini
...not gonna remember anything this evening....”
Probably better. Our outdoor security camera caught you in ‘that costume’, doing things with... nevermind. We’ll erase the 40min tape.
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Cougar!
vermouth, “Loud Mouth1”
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