Dirty Martini

A Martini with olive brine stirred through it. Go carefully — too much and it is gone.

Build

Rescaled to your 1 oz30 ml pour. Written around 2½ oz75 ml.

Rescaled to your 1 ½ oz45 ml pour. Written around 2½ oz75 ml.

Rescaled to your 2 oz60 ml pour. Written around 2½ oz75 ml.

Already built on your 2 ½ oz75 ml pour.

Rescaled to your 3 oz90 ml pour. Written around 2½ oz75 ml.

Tools

• Jigger
• Bar spoon
• Hawthorne strainer

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Method

1. Stir the gin and vermouth with ice until cold.
2. Add the olive brine a little at a time, stirring again — too much brine ruins it, so start short.
3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and drop in an olive.

Related drinks

• Martini (Gin)the one this riffs on
• Martini (Vodka)vodka, and no vermouth at all

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