The Best Ways to Filth Up Your Dirty Martini

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[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.

[Extra-Ordinary Objectives]

that’s funny! you can try also, putting in a small amount of vermouth in the glass first, and then dumping it out before adding your vodka or gin. leaves the fragrance but not much if any flavor.

[hinckley buzzard]

Proof that gin drinkers are not right in the head.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Let me know when you need more brine. I always have plenty of brine leftover when I take the last olives out of the jar to enhance my martini.

[SkyDancer]

Nope, but similar in appearance (no, not with my head on the bar).

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeppers. I’m heavy on the vodka, light on the vermouth. Then a teaspoon or so of brine and three olives. Perfect. 😊

[griswold3]

I do fall asleep if I have a drink or two. Thought an Espresso Martini would help. Recipes?

[griswold3]

No, no, no, no
I don’t smoke it no more
I’m tired of waking up on the floor…

[Paal Gulli]

W.C. Field's recipe for the "perfect Martini" was to 'fill a glass with cold gin, then cast the shadow from a bottle of vermouth, once, lightly, over the top of the glass.'

I prefer the Montgomery, named after the British field marshall of the same name. Monty was too timid to attack unless he outnumbered the enemy by 15-to-1, and "the Montgomery" is 15 parts gin to one part vermouth.

You can always tell a bar where they serve Montgomerys because the drink is so dry, they don't have urinals in The Gent's, they have dustbins.

Oh, and Ian Fleming was a philistine. There is NO VODKA in a Martini, and you should NEVER bruise distilled spirits (stirred, ever so gently, not shaken).

[abb]

Enjoying a Montgomery at this very moment, watching an episode of Ducktales!

[mylife]

Hell yes about the Bloody Mary’s.

[Clutch Martin]

Beefeaters
Seagram’s

Any gin approaching 100 proof

[SkyDancer]

Two merlot’s do it for me.

[mylife]

:)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A dear friend served “pickletinis” at a dinner party a few on this ago using dill pickle brine. I don’t think anybody said “Wow, this is good! Can I have another?”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“A few months ago”