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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Dirty martinis with gin are the best.
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I like to have a Martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under the table,
After four I’m under my host.
Don’t much like gin since I got the drive heaves from it on New yeas eve in 1967. Yeah I was 16.
A friend ordered a dirty martini.
He told the bartender he wanted it dirtier than Britney Spears, but not as dirty as Cristina Aguilera.
Cracked me up.
Never had a choclatini, eh?
Moi???
They are not using a fine Gin like Bombay Sphire The ‘dirty’ covers for grain alcohol, flavored ‘fake gin’.
I love it when they downplay to amount of vermouth on TV and Movies.
The Kingsmen had a great one: “Shaken, while glancing sideways at an unopened bottle of vermouth”
Beware the humble martini!
Have one or two at most.
Three, and you’re under your host!!
Before my health problems (non-alcohol related), I used to love a gin martini with a couple blue cheese stuffed olives. The BEST martini I ever made was two parts gin, one part vodka, and one part vermouth. Olives too, of course.
While we’re talking gin, I used to substitute gin for vodka in my Bloody Mary’s.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm
“Don’t much like gin since I got the drive heaves from it on New yeas eve in 1967. Yeah I was 16.”
18 for me back in 1978. Drank Israeli gin. A lot of it. I cannot even look at a bottle of gin without getting the dry heaves.
That you?
GAAHH!! That cat TOLD me he wouldn’t let me do that again....
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Olive juice is to martinis what the designated hitter is to baseball.
Just wave the vermouth bottle cork over it. Done deal.
If I was still drinking I would try that, it sounds great!
If that were true, my nickname would be Dolly.
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