AB's Martini

Alton Brown

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown, 2005

Show: Good EatsEpisode: Raising the Bar

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Total Time:
5 min
Prep
5 min
Yield:
1 drink
Level:
Easy
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup crushed ice, plus extra for chilling glass
  • 1/2-ounce dry vermouth
  • 2 1/2 ounces gin
  • 1 olive

Directions

Place some crushed ice into the martini glass you will be serving in, and set aside.

Place the 1 cup of crushed ice into a cocktail shaker. Pour in the vermouth and swirl it around, making as much contact as possible with the ice. Using a strainer, pour the vermouth out. Add the gin and stir well to combine.

Remove the ice from your serving glass and add the olive. Using the strainer, pour the gin into the serving glass.

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  • on September 02, 2011

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    Great! but would be perfect with 3 Spanish Olives !

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  • on August 11, 2011

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    AB try this for the best Martini I've made so far. Using 1 shot of vodka, 1 1/2 shots gin and 1/2 vermouth. :o

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  • on December 30, 2010

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    Thanks to AB for a REAL martini! 5:1 gin:vermouth is perfect. The idiocy where one drop of vermouth is mixed into one vat of vodka is not a real martini. Gin is the way to go, and I prefer Bombay Sapphire. I find Plymouth a bit bland. I agree that the olive needs to be in the martini to add a brininess, not balanced on the rim. But I guess I like more "brine". For me, it's 2 olives. And good quality olives too. I have gotten good martinis with lousy olives. Ruins the whole thing...

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