Do you drink vodka or gin martinis?
Also, what else do you like in your martini?
I like a dirty martini (as in with some brine) made with good gin and 3 blue cheese stuffed olives.
how do you take your martini?
Do you drink vodka or gin martinis?
Also, what else do you like in your martini?
I like a dirty martini (as in with some brine) made with good gin and 3 blue cheese stuffed olives.
Re: how do you take your martini?
give me a beer - and I'll shut up.
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Re: how do you take your martini?
I don't drink martinis. I take my liquor straight-up.
Also, gin tastes like mouthwash to me, and vodka just tastes like rubbing alcohol, so I don't even drink the primary ingredients of a martini.
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Last edited by Reverend Joe; 09-25-2005 at 18:54.
Re: how do you take your martini?
come on, my martinis are basically liquor straight up. I only use a little brine. And I like alcohol soaked cheesy olives.
You should give it a try. Except you don't like gin or vodka so I guess my attempt to convert you fails at that point.
Re: how do you take your martini?
Originally Posted by Taffy_is_a_Taff
Do you like pickled eggs as well?
Re: how do you take your martini?
Do I like pickled eggs?
er, yeah, actually. Usually after a good session involving lots of beer but yeah nonetheless.
Re: how do you take your martini?
I dont waste good vodka on Martinis.
Last edited by Kagemusha; 09-25-2005 at 19:30.
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Re: how do you take your martini?
Shaken, not stirred.Gin, vodka, whatever. I don't really care.
Re: how do you take your martini?
You got there first, i was gonna say that!Shaken, not stirred.
Re: how do you take your martini?
Why add somethig to your Vodka?
Re: how do you take your martini?
why add something to your vodka?
why not?
plenty of people use mixers to disguise the vodka taste so that they can get drunk easily, at least a vodka martini is basically a glass of vodka with a vermouth soaked olive. More dressing up straight vodka than anything else.
Re: how do you take your martini?
All ingredients and tools stored in freezer at roughly 10 degrees fahrenheit.
Shaker, no ice, for mixing.
Bombay Saphire.
French Vermouth, one atomizer misting per 2 shots gin.
Serve in classic martini glass, 3 olives (no brine).
I prefer a cocktail sword, but find toothpicks adequate for the olives.
Seamus
P.S. Friend and I mixed a big batch and had a video festival. All 3 of the original "Thin Man" flicks back to back. Whenever they quaffed on screen, so did we. Finished the flicks, slept well - but a good deal longer than usual.
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Re: how do you take your martini?
yep, Bombay Saphire is good stuff (although I've been drinking Hendrick's lately).
Your big batch: did you have the classic martini jug? because it would be awesome if you did.
Edit: I also agree with the martini glass because it would basically be a glass of gin with some floaty bits if you used a hi ball or the like.
Last edited by Taffy_is_a_Taff; 09-26-2005 at 04:41.
Re: how do you take your martini?
you're typical dry martini is dry gin and dry vermouth, about 3 parts to 1
thats if i remember correctly and thats the way i take it, shaken.
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Re: how do you take your martini?
Gin, for sure. Vodka is for people who don't want any distractions, such as flavour, on their way to getting smashed. No olive. More vermouth than Seamus, a lot less than Dessa. Room temprature gin, and ice in the shaker (not the glass, obviously), so I'd wind up with a drink a tiny bit less strong than Seamus.
Bombay Sapphire is my favourite London gin, I alternate with Plymouth depending on how I am feeling but to be honest after one or two of either I couldn't begin to tell the difference. Be fun trying though...
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Re: how do you take your martini?
I must admit that I'm with Seamus on the minimal Vermouth.
Yes, it sounds like fun trying to differentiate between gins, I may give that a try sometime.
Re: how do you take your martini?
Just Martini on its own. With a cherry, or a lime.
Re: how do you take your martini?
When you say Martini on its own do you mean the vermouth that says MARTINI in big letters on the bottle?
Re: how do you take your martini?
No, just pure (like drinking petrol) Martini.
j/k, yes it's that, which I guess is mixed with...?
Re: how do you take your martini?
you mix the vermouth with either gin or vodka to make a martini, hence the poll question.
Re: how do you take your martini?
I'm pretty sure that had nothing to do with alcohol. At least...not directly.
I also drink everything straight, so no martinis for me. Pickled eggs are nice and manly though. I haven't had one in ages...
Re: how do you take your martini?
is that Jimmy Morrison reference being used to hint at booze enemas?
Meatwad, is that what you mean when you say you like your booze straight up?
Re: how do you take your martini?
Well if you are taking your alcohol like that I wouldn't waste good Bombay Sapphire. Gilbeys or Gordons would be perfectly good enough. the exact amount of vermouth would be less critical too.
I still say you should leave out the olives though.
Bottoms up.
;-)
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Re: how do you take your martini?
well i wasn't sure about the proportions, i haven't made martini's in ages, i really like vermouth though, so its not uncommon for me to overdo the vermouth a little bit...
it could be 5-1, its majority gin i know that for sure.
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Re: how do you take your martini?
I understood that a 'Martini' had to be made with vodka, if it was made with gin it was called a 'gin and it'...or perhaps I'm mistaken?
(or maybe that's when it's made with red vermouth)
Anyway back to the question. I like it both ways as long as it's free.
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Re: how do you take your martini?
you know I always thought it was the other way around.
I thought that gin was the traditional martini drink. Hence the term "vodka martini" rather than "gin martini".
I am now uncertain.
Re: how do you take your martini?
I'm fairly sure that Gin martinis are the original, though 007 drank Vodka, didn't he? I just drink beer, myself. It lasts longer.
An alcohol enema is a new one to me. I've seen people dropping Vodka into their eyes, mind. Not something which seems an especially good idea.
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Re: how do you take your martini?
I used to know somebody who would inject themselves with vodka (or so they claimed anyway, they were definitely injecting themselves with something on nights out).
I have a word for that: it starts and ends with a "T" and has a "wa" in the middle. (Hope that makes it around the moderators.)
Re: how do you take your martini?
There are some stupid people out there. Why can't they just drink the alcohol? (Then again, Vodka tastes so awful I can understand not wanting to drink it... but why not go for some Irish Whiskey?)
Re: how do you take your martini?
I believe that it is gin that takes the biscuit...vodka is for the chavs,,,,so I have it on good authority.......I have a word for that: it starts and ends with a "T" and has a "wa" in the middle. (Hope that makes it around the moderators.)
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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