I bought some 16% Gallo vermouth extra dry and I have some cheap gin?!
Answers: I have 2 questions or 3 maybe. How much vermouth and how much gin is needed fer a good martini. What kinda beer glass can I sub fer martini glasses. and can I use them olives with a red thang inside it?
mmmm. Cheap gin. This is the Winston Churchill Dry Gin Martini:
Cheap gin
Good vermouth.
1 glass
shaker with ice
Pour gin into shaker with ice, wave good vermouth bottle in a slow circular motion over shaker, shake and strain into glass. enjoy!
i typically go for a wetter martini (50 mls gin and 25 mls vermouth) The original martini was actually 1/2 and 1/2, although nowadays people tend to like them dry.
I've seen a dry martini made by pouring a little vermouth in a glass, swirling it around to coat the inside, and pouring out the excess.
Just make sure it's ice cold!! (stir with ice, don't shake!)
the olives are fine, but i prefer with a twist of lemon!
Do you have a shaker?
Here is the "classic" martini:
Crush ice into the shaker. Take a chilled martini glass (or, in your case, a beer stein or lager glass) and pour a capful of vermouth into it, swirl it around so it coats the glass, and pour out the remainder.
Add 3 oz of gin to the shaker, wrap a damp linen bar towel around the shaker, and shake (cap on, obviously) until the towel freezes.
Strain out into the chilled/vermouthed glass, so just a light film of ice chips is floating on the surface, and garnish with 2 olives (yes, pimentos are fine) on a sword.
For a "Dirty" martini, you use some olive juice in with the Gin.
A "bond" martini is either pure vodka, or half and half, though many purists don't think it's a Martini if it's anything but gin and vermouth.
My Grandfather always just used to drink gin and a bit of vermouth, with ice cubes and a sprig of mint in a coffee cup.. sometimes with seltzer in it, sometimes not, so your choice of glassware only matters if you want it to matter.
First rule of martinis is cold cold cold.. cold ice, cold gin, cold glass, and cold olives.
It's supposed to be a refreshing, cooling drink. And it's a really _light_ drink too, if you can stomach gin.
3/4 gin, 1/4 vermouth. Beer glasses are much too big. And yes, olives with red thing are fine.
i like them dry-- enough vermouth to coat the glass and a little less (not quite 1/8 : 7/8) than 1/4 to 3/4 vermouth to gin ratio... next time go for the better gin and cheaper vermouth, i like my martini's dirty and the olives with the pimento are the kind you are looking for, maybe use wine glasses instead of beer glasses, or small water glasses or something
check out the martini and rossi website. look at the vermouth recipes.