just joined (how jongish) martini bar in SLC a couple o weeks ago - Cristophes or somethin like that - pretty decent place, lotsas good martinis
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just joined (how jongish) martini bar in SLC a couple o weeks ago - Cristophes or somethin like that - pretty decent place, lotsas good martinis
Um, let's see, beer and tequila, or four shots worth of vodka/gin? Sure, I hate the martini glass, but if you wanna get drunk fast and not have a hangover later, then order a Ketel One martini, not fourteen PBRs and a grip of tequila shots.Quote:
Originally Posted by sledneckripper
Besides, who cares what anyone else drinks? Judging other people by what they drink is fucking lame.
At the end of the work day on our last project, the owners would meander out with a shaker of "bourbon manhattans" and them there nice martini glasses. Yeah, we got used to that, being all civilized and shit. When we left they gave us a gift of Knob Creek Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and Stock sweet Vermouth. I gotta tell ya, I love jobs like that.
This thread has reached Epic proportions. Lighten up and pass the funnel please.
Now it has:Quote:
Originally Posted by FNG
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My God, when did they start putting Prozac in beer? That's genius!
DEAN MARTINI
1 1/2 oz. vodka or gin
Orange wheel
sweet vermouth
Mixing instructions:
Stir vodka with a float of red sweet vermouth over ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with an orange wheel.
That's amore!!
Nantucketini
Triple Eight Cranberry Vodka, splash of sour, splash of orange juice, squeeze fresh lime, lime garnish.
kind of late to this thread, buuuuuttttt......
does anyone else get the sweats of you have 2-4 martinis?
i do sometimes, it's like a friggin flop-sweat....not good if you're at a formal affair :rolleyes:
Woodsy,
Brandy & cognac are both commonly sold ~40% abv, just like whiskey.
Indeed, now…I haven't tried it with normal sweetened lime juice, prefering instead to use Lemon's Evil Lime Juice when available and the bottle of brandy that I've at home is White Stork (Moldova, I like it a lot and it doesn't cost a ton, ~$15/750ml), mix 2pts liquor w/ 1pt ELJ on ice. Sounds improbable and the wife absolutely hates em but damn, I really like drinking the stupid things.Quote:
Originally Posted by irul&ublo
4 martinis? Damn Tap. That is impressive. I usually won't ever go past 2 (unless they are in those mini martini glasses). Glasses I have at home are 6oz and if I do that twice I am feeling pretty good. Though never to the point of a flop-sweat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tap
Yea yea, I know its a girly drink but damn, half stoli vanil and half stoli ohranj= good stuff.
See, TGR teaches you something new every day. Up until now I had never heard the expression "flop sweat." Thanks for that, Tap!
New gin contender: Bulldog. Very mellow flavor, tasty but not sharp- definitely other flavors than juniper going on in there. I don't know how widely available it is, but give it a shot. The bottle is cool and everything.
the party before the midtown party before the baseball mueum party I invited you to and then bailed on was sponsored by bulldog/Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas
I couldnt figure out why they were serving gin and blueberry juice when we arrived on the beach but then I saw the mulitple bottles and the girls in bulldog ts so i switched to quite tasty G & T's
I have half heartedly looked for it since, but not seen it.
i will more full heartedl resume the search.
ahh martini's and flop sweat...
SSD was the Bulldog OG, \but i have the T shirt and the bottle at home
soo gonna murder a martini or 3 in 24 minutes...
If you don't add vermouth, then you might as well admit that you are simply a gin sipper.
If you are shaking clear liqour, you may as well admit that you are trying to acheive further watering down... probably because you need to since you think vermouth is uncool.
I like my 1-2-3 Vodka Martini:
1 part Martini & Ross dry white vermouth
2 parts Tito's 6x distilled premium vodka
3 spanish olives
Stirred until ice cold & strain into chilled glass...
I also like the Manhattan version replacing the vodka with Makers Mark (and no olives)...
New Amsterdam gin is swill... avoid avoid avoid
Interesting combo:
1/2 part Martini & Ross dry white vermouth
1/2 part Martini & Ross sweet red vermouth
1 part Whiskers Blake Tawny port
4 parts Makers Mark
I don't care how old this is or if it's been addressed, but I cannot let this stand. A quality twist makes all the difference in a gin or good vodka martini, or almost any strained cocktail. The oils in the skin react especially well with the gin, more noticeable if it has been stirred, not shaken. Even better is to ask the bartender to "flame" the twist. Try it, I promise you'll thank me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster
Again, don't care if it's been addressed. The bartender in me had to say something. And, for reference, make sure if you're going to lecture the bartender that you know your shit. I had a lady who was CONVINCED that her mojito was wrong because it had soda instead of tonic. Turns out she'd never had one she hadn't made before.
Shaking gin is for pussies who need to add water, and no vermouth is for people who don't actually like martinis. There, I said it. Ask for "extra dry" at my bar and you should get exactly one drop on the glass, held upside down and spun to coat the glass. Even that is better than nothing, because it's still noticeable. "Extra dry" and "straight" are not the same fucking thing. Yuppies and college students drink "straight", martini lovers don't.
What...are you off the scotch?Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
in other news, we've been buying Russian Standard (Ruskie StandARD) lately.
it's good
it's relatively inexpensive
What do you recommend?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jackie Treehorn
What are your tastes? We stocked a few "premium" vermouths for a month or so, and nobody ever ordered them. But then again, this was in Texas, and everybody was ordering the special "martinis" on the menu, which while pretty good, were not martinis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Summit
In related news, anybody want to know how to make a kickass chocolate "martini"?
Cinzano or Noilly-Pratt...not that much more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Summit
These days if you ask for a martini, they tend to default to vodka martini (unless at a martini bar). I seem to always have to specify gin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
Current favorite martini gin is Plymouth.
Tanqueray makes the best G&T.
Sapphire is for people who would rather be drinking vodka.
Tequila: Don Julio 1942 is *the* shit. Followed by Chinaco and Don Julio Anejo.
PSA, if you run out of dry white vermouth, do NOT EVER put red vermouth in with your vodka... we need a puking smiley
Well, I didn't Martini and Ross was subpar... tasted fine to me but I'm always in for a finer taste if its worth it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Nathan Explosion
OK... how do we make kickass chocolate "martini"s... ahh... for our lady friends of course?
OK I'll look for those :)Quote:
Originally Posted by irul&ublo
If it has to be gin, Junipero (from the Anchor Steam folks). Hangar One vodka martini = much better.
Hangar One gimlet = best.
I'll jump in here.
It's been a while, and I could use one.
Stoli, dry, 2 olives!
yech... i'm going to try the other one...Quote:
Originally Posted by irul&ublo
Well, old boy, I believe you may have described a "Vesper Martini". I like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ECbum
James Bond came up with it off the cuff while wooing Vesper Lynd.
James Bond: "I think I'll call it a Vesper."
Vesper Lynd: "Because of the bitter aftertaste?"
James Bond: "No, because once you've tasted it, that's all you want to drink."
The French aperitif is Lillet White.
My personal favorite is a Churchill Martini. I perused the debate here. Gin poured from bottle to glass is a Churchill to me; a cusory glance at the vermouth is enough to qualify the 'Martini' label.
I add 1 or 3 olives, shaken dry. As long as the bottle says 'GIN' I don't care who made it.
I started with G&T's many years ago, about the time I quit that horrendous pedestrian swill called beer.
Ahhhhh...yes...the finer things in life...
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Cinzano is definately the best vermouth to drink straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by irul&ublo
However, I ended up liking the Martini & Ross in the martini over the Noilly-Pratt or the Cinzano.
Wow, an oldie but goodie.
I'll weigh in and say, anyone who thinks straight gin in a martini glass = a martini, is in the same league as chicks who order apple-tinis and choco-tinis.
(That would be the homo league).
I'll buy that bit about Sapphire, because it's the only gin I really like. I'm more of a vodka man.Quote:
Originally Posted by cjw
they ain't martinis but it's summer, limes are cheap and I'm back on the brandy gimlet train.
CHOOO CHOOO motherfuckers.
to be clear, ish
brandy gimlet =
1 part Lemon's Evil Lime Juice
1 part brandy
ice.
tasset of motherfucking summer.