They seem so good in the movies, but actually taste mostly just like straight vodka, which most people aren’t going to enjoy.
They seem so good in the movies, but actually taste mostly just like straight vodka, which most people aren’t going to enjoy.
So, I would love to know your recipe. Because that’s where I’d guess you fucked it up.
I would guess you used vodka and used either too much vermouth or too little. (I’d guess you used too little rather than too much…) But what do I know?
You used dry vermouth, not sweet?
Who uses sweet vermouth in a martini? That’s a different drink.
Martinis are gin or vodka and extra dry vermouth.
Some very early martini recipes call for equal parts gin and sweet vermouth. There’s been a century-long trend toward dryer and dryer martinis until we arrive at the modern recipe:
fill a tumbler full of ice, add three ounces of gin, pour half an ounce of dry vermouth down the sink next door, stir, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a green olive.
That is absolutely correct.
I was asking the op if he used sweet vermouth to determine if op used sweet vermouth. Because that would be a Manhattan. Sorta.