Posted: 7/20/2007 4:59:40 PM EDT
| I'm looking to make a martini tonight. What is your preferred martini and how do you make it? |
good call but try the titos 10x better in my opinion. and i like em' dry too ETA: this is for a vodka martini if you want a real one see the post below |
There is no such thing as a martini made with vodka. That would be a vodkatini. The only permissible ingredients in a martini are gin, vermouth, and olives. Damn heathens. |
Amen brother, drinking Bombay Sapphire right now. HELL YEAH |
Its rare that Im in a Martini mood, but thats the way I take them. I tend to lean towards the gin & tonics myself. I also like the dirty martini. Gin is, as I am sure you know, not for everyone.  Cheers. |
Ive seen bartenders pour vermouth in the glass, then pore it back in the bottle, then mix. Getting the glass wet with vermouth was enough. Ive seen another spray it into the glass with a little spritzer bottle too. |
A point of clarification - a vodkatini is a ghey ass term that you learned from watching syndicated repeats of "Sex in the Shity". The proper term is vodka in a cocktail glass.
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If you have vermouth in the room, have recently thought about vermouth, or once consumed a martini spoiled by vermouth, then you have enough vermouth in your martini. I usually just open the vermouth bottle and occasionally glance in its general direction while I make my martini. I put the cap back on when I am done. Martini = chilled cocktail glass+ frosty gin + an green olive or a pearl onion. Nothing else. |
A real man, with a Long Lever. |
Think tied down naked in a tub full of those worms that crawl up your pee-hole and then eat you from the inside out. |
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Thanks to James Bond, the Vodka and Vermouth in a Martini glass is a popular drink. But it is not a martini. A martini has exactly three ingredients: Fucking cold, top shelf gin, an olive, and 2 or 3 molecules of vermouth. (Sir Winston Churchill often eschewed the vermouth altogether, opting instead to bow in the direction of France) |
Gin seems to have the magic ability to overpower anything else it is mixed with. Bombay is a stronger flavored gin that will overtake the vermouth and anything else you wish to add to it. You might as well just suck down gin straight from the bottle at that point. The idea of a good mixed drink to hit on different chords and by using spiced juniper berried grain liquor defeats that point by washing out everything else. Vodka is just gin without the spices. A vodka martini is a drink that especially needs to be correct in mix. A smooth vodka, on the other hand, is much lighter and often harder to hit the chords right, so more care is needed. Too much vermouth or olive, etc., will be very obvious to a drinker and will ruin the experience. |
I've drank many martini's, made far more during my years bartending, and I totally disagree except for the fact that a martini needs to be correct & too much vermouth etc. will ruin it. I can clearly distinguish the minimal vermouth I use from the sapphire. A martini is made with a gin, a vodka martini is made with...well you get the point. |
try making it with three olives vanilla vodka its like sex with out having to put the kids to sleep ETA: all your page 2 martinis are drunk by me |
If you remove the berries and spice from gin you are left with what is vodka. So I prefer a non-spiced up drink and that's a major sin in the drinking world? |
I think if you equate a girly drink in a martini glass for sex, then you or your better half is doing something wrong. Just saying. The worst sex I've ever had greatly surpassed any beverage no matter how decadent. |
mabey your just having great sex bad drinks? |
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"Bombay is a stronger flavored gin..." Yopu need to try some other gins if you think Bombay Saphire is strongly flavored. It is less than Tanqueray. Make gin and tonic with Saphire and you can barely taste the gin. I use Tanqueray for gin & tonic and Saphire for martinis. About 3 oz gin, 1 teaspoon of Vermouth (Martini & Rossi) and a couple of olives with NO pimento. Used to be easy to find the correct olives, but the bars seem to have fallen down on the job. |
It only becomes a sin when you try to pass it off as a martini rather than the correct vodka martini. They are two different drinks entirely. Other than that, it is not a sin, just criminal. |
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Martini is with gin, not vodka. End of discussion. Gin, vermouth and pearl onions is called a Gibson, not a Martini. 3 ounces of Bombay Sapphire gin, a "splash" of vermouth, shake over ice. Pour into a chilled martini glass and add three olives on a spear. Heaven in a glass. |