Martini | How to Drink
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- On this episode of How to Drink, I’m addressing the classic and venerable Martini. I decided to make both a Gin Martini and the Dry Martini, which I’m not as big of a fan of as I am the Gin Martini. However, though I side more with the Gin Martini more than the Dry Martini these two drinks were equally enjoyable in making them and I highly encourage to do give them a try. Cheers!
Gin Martini Ingredients:
- 2 oz or 60 ml of Old Tom Gin
- 1 oz or 30 ml of French Vermouth
- 1 Dash Absinthe
- Stir
- Garnish with Lemon Twist
Dry Martini Ingredients:
- 1.5 oz or 44 ml of London Dry Gin
- 1.5 oz or 44 ml of French Vermouth
- 2 Dashes Orange Bitters
- Stir
- Garnish with Orange Twist
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Finally another gentleman named Greg who loves martinis. What a splendid day.
Pleased to meet you!
i cringe whenever my dad whips up a "martini" which for him is literally just shaking the hell out of a double shot of vodka then adding an olive.
Yikes! Well, you could try to see if he likes one of these
will do.
So he gets a cloudy glass of vodka... with an olive in it
Change vodka to gin and it's perfection. 😎
That's how my dad drinks his martinis! two ounces of gin, and before he puts it in the glass he swirls some vermouth in the glass and dumps it out.
I'd heard that Churchill's idea of a dry martini was drinking a glass of gin while glancing at an uncorked bottle of vermouth.
My understanding is that though that quote is often misattributed to him, it was in fact Hitchcock who liked his vermouth open but on the other side of the room.
i heard that when they are making La Croix, they put water in a can _near_ a box of oranges or strawberries
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Not completely unlike the fact that Coors Light is like having sex in a canoe... because it's f***ing close to water.
@@howtodrink It was actually Hemingway
@@its1110 Thats actually how all comercial american Beers are referred to in Europe.
That bottle change at 1:32 🙃
nice
HA, I would never have noticed if I didn't see this comment.
For anyone not sure what's going on, look at a shelf.
A glitch in the matrix.
It threw me off as well. It does it again at 2:46
Well, gj, guys. Now I'm upset.
Dude I need you at my bachelor party
Tom D where and when?
Oh man, it might be actually a bit problematic, as I am from Poland, and we are planning the wedding in probably one year or so. But surely I will let you know haha! ;-)
Keep doing what you're doing man, you are amazing at it and watching the videos is not only educational, but also great fun!
I will be making the Clover Club tonight, will send pictures afterwards.
Thanks for saying so and watching! That does sound tricky, I'm very seldom in Poland (so far never but who knows?) Congrats on the upcoming nuptials though!
@@tomdrozdowski140 So, did he come?
@@NikolaiPetrovski Great question. Wondering that too.
One of the main things i love in your videos is the drink's history background, you nailed it in every drink! :D
Thank you!
The first multiple drink episode of How to Drink! I've finally found this bit of history! I think I've been searching too long, but still... Yay!
Greg my man, The production quality on these videos is just fantastic! Started with the Old Fashioned video and worked my way through the whole set.
Thank you! Glad to hear it!
Man, one of the few I could try, and let me tell you it was AWESOME. thanks for the quality content as always, and I'm glad to see you've stuck around. Look forward to what you're going to be putting out next!
wow this channel is growing. Got great potential i can feel it.. im glad it exist
How did I just discover this amazing channel? Been binge watching your videos for the past hour and cannot get enough. Drinks Tube doesn't even stand close. Subscribed!
Thank you!
Shout out to using fresh vermouth! If it's been sitting in your fridge for weeks or months it's not going to taste right.
Love your content, Greg. Saw your vid for the aviation a few months ago and i've been drinking properly every since. Keep up the great stuff.
I love the second martini you made. It has become my favorite drink. My Father was always a "A martini is gin, with a "splash" of vermouth" and while Aviation Gin made that kinda work it was a glorified shot of gin. I picked up a bottle of Oregon Spirit Absinthe, Dolin rouge vermouth, and Aviation old tom gin, and oh man is it good!
Simple to make, great to drink, just a perfect drink, thank you!
Your video's are the best cocktail videos I've seen, for many reasons.
I haven't had a martini in a long time. After watching this video it has prompted me to buy the stuff I need and make one. Oh man! Soooo good, thank you for the encouragement to get back into cocktails 🍸
I can't believe I didn't know about this channel. Subscribed! You're really good man
If you're going to have a glass of chilled gin with an olive in it, just order "chilled gin with an olive garnish, please." A real martini should have vermouth.
agreed!
A real martini should have vermouth AND olive juice. Martinis are always better dirty
@@brandonvacchio7614 100%
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Dirty just overwhelms the delicate balance of flavors with brine and olive juice. I used to drink them dirty but I've been converted to team lemon twist.
@@brandonvacchio7614 just order a bloody mary
Just got up after watching this and made the Gin Martini - what a great cocktail. I'm not usually a fan of the different martini variations enough to make them more than a couple times, but this just might go into my recipe book after I'm done drinking it!
Another fantastic video, keep up the great work!
Great work! Nice to see another quality Cocktail Channel out there! And another Stag!
Thank you! Agree on the Stag, drinks are simply better with a stag.
I love your channel
I'm not much of a drinker, but your videos always bring a little joy into my day. Thanks man.
Glad to hear it! And thanks for watching!
YES!!! Thank you! This is also how I like my Martinis and I get sneered at every time I order them.
This channel needs to upload more its so good
Great job, once again!
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I just love the way you edit your videos.
Thanks Mallord!
Awesome. Going straight to the kitchen to make the Dry Martini. Never tried with orange bitters - looking forward to this.
the light in the glass is a NICE touch! love the attention to detail and of course, love the drinks! #detailsmatter
This channel is so great
Love the music!
What I've been making and enjoying is: Start with ice in a mixing glass, pour 3/4 oz. Dry Vermouth into ice and stir 10 sec, strain into glass, pour 1 3/4 oz. Dry Gin into ice and stir 10 sec, strain onto vermouth in glass, add 3 olives and enjoy!
I've heard two reasons for the phenomenon of people ordering less vermouth in their Martinis over the years.
The first was that it was a power-play but upper-class patrons, sending Martinis back if there was too much vermouth, to the point where bartenders took to just rinsing a glass with ice water and a drop of vermouth before pouring in heavily shaken gin (this is how I was taught to make them...the wrong way!)
The second reason is that bar managers forgot that vermouth is a fortified wine and so it has to be refrigerated and even then it's got a life of between one and two months before it goes bad, so people probably just started hating vermouth instead of the know-nothing bar managers who couldn't properly store product.
I've had one cocktail in my life that uses an equal parts vermouth-and-gin ratio. It's called the Vampire and uses the same measurements, then swaps out orange bitters for about five drops of lime juice and garnishes with a clove of garlic instead of a twist. Try it next Halloween.
For people who think a one-to-one ratio is too much, I started out drinking my Martinis at 5:1 on the advice of the 12 Bottle Bar book, but I've tried 2:1 (the traditional recipe), 3:1, and 4:1 as well and find that four parts gin to one part vermouth and a dash of orange bitters is the best but all of these are pretty damn good and different gins - especially at different proofs - might want different ratios. Only thing to do is experiment...and enjoy! Thanks for the videos, man, great as always!
Rolls on floor laughing my ass off. I have drinking to do bye-bye...
You are a legend and you're hilarious and that was perfect
This channel deserves much more views
I agree
one of my favorite UA-cam channels
Thank you!
Thanks for your videos.
as always great video!!! you deserve more views :)
Bottle change at 1:33 haha. Good video. I agree with your notion of “dry” referring to type of gin as opposed to amount of vermouth
Thanks for another fun video! I'd love to see you do a Rob Roy. That's one of my favorite classic cocktails, but I've given up ordering it in bars. Bartenders don't seem to know what it is. I once ordered it at an Outback Steakhouse and was served a big mug of root beer with grenadine (a Roy Rogers).
Much Respect for making a video on martinis and NOT going for the used up "shaken not stirred" reference.
Great video Greg Lad! 💯
Jonathan Read thank you!
Can't stop waiting for new content.
You have my thumbs up quality and subscription sir. !
Great video!
Great Channel love The atmosphere you have created.
Thank you so much!
Those look so delicious. And those glasses, damn! I need to find a job soon and start making them sweet recipes!
Thanks Greg nice one!
Nice to see a martini made with Old Tom.
I thought originally a "dry martini" was a request for a martini made with the new fangled dry vermouth instead of the original sweet vermouth.
Your videos keep getting better and better. I think it was a great idea to make two different types of Martinis. I'd love to see more videos with multiple variations of drinks. Keep up the great work!
Nicholas Pham thank you!
How To Drink I would like to see more vodka based drinks though.
Great video and lots of stuff I didn't know yet! I love it that you call the channel "how to drink". Confused me at first...but anyway :-P
Greg, I went out and bought Dolin dry vermouth and used angostura orange bitters and beefeater. I've made so many martinis before. This replaced the Vesper as my favorite! love your approach to cocktails man!
Andrew Nagel that is awesome to hear! Glad you liked it!
I like a 3 to 1 ratio, with Tanqueray #10, since that has citrus is it. And 4 olives. I'll have to try some of the variations
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The second cocktail is closer to a Tuxedo No. 2...minus the dash of maraschino. Well played, I must try!
Yes, that is how we roll.
I think the reason you get the little orange is to me that classic style Gin martini has some notes reminiscent of good English tea, and when I think good English tea, I think Earl grey, and when I think Earl grey I think bergamot.
I don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine that combination of spicy and herbacious spirits coming together to create some of the same compounds, even if there's no actual citrus (I think? I know sometimes French Earl grey has citrus peel, maybe some French vermouth has it as well, probably a reach).
Hey Greg, what difference does Noilly Prat dry vs extra dry make in this drink?
I'm not sure if you'd have any ideas on this but I'm simply a bit curious. One of my family mentioned that at some point they had a basil and lemon martini that simply delighted them. I was just wondering if you might have any ideas on how to recreate such a martini. Thanks in advance!
My knowledge of cocktails pretty much just comes exclusivly from the Savoy cocktail book. It pretty much says that a dry Martini is made with French (white) vermouth, a medium is French and Italian (red) vermouth and a sweet is Italian vermouth.
I make my dry martinis with 6 parts gin and 1 part vermouth (of the Martini brand). I always thought that was the “official” recipe. Curiously enough, I don’t really like gin or vermouth by itself (with the exception of one brand of gin), but I like this drink.
great content and I need to ask about your zester, great smallish zest, where did you get it?
Great show man, keep it coming.
Incognitus Bozon thank you! I've got new episodes planned to release starting in June!
Awesome! I got really stuck in a rut with my drinking, your videos are a great inspiration. Summer is coming, you should do like a whole series on tropical cocktails, id love to try them all out.
Incognitus Bozon tropical drinks eh? Might be something in that!
It's incredible to hear that my show is an inspiration for you, I don't even know how to respond to that other than to gush and say thank you a million times. Thank you!
No problem man :) Theres a lot of channels out there, but most are professional bartenders just trying hard to show off. You genuinely enjoy preparing and drinking cocktails, and it shows. Like I said, keep them coming, you have one loyal subscriber right here.
First :D But you are awesome :D keep doing the good work ;) :)
Martin Fintland thank you!
I see so few people do a 2 to 1 ratio on a martini, but that's how I always do mine! Martini bros! I need to try the dash of absinthe though.
Recently came into acquisition of some pom molasses from the last video, but now I see I need old tom and decent vermouth too!
Dan Neeley Bar Acquisition Syndrome is a real and debilitating disease. Protect your wallet my friend.
My martini: Brand loyalty is a must. One part Noilly Prat, three parts New Amsterdam gin over ice. I prefer shaking to stirring. Strain into thoroughly chilled glass. Add a few drops of lemon juice. I've tried it so many ways I'm almost ashamed how much gin I've consumed... New Amsterdam gin is a great gin for it's price point. Noilly Prat has a more floral tone... The two combine incredible flavor and refreshment. The squirt of lemon gives a completing citrus edge. I love olives but they taste nasty with my concoction. Trust me, citrus all the way. It's a simple home mix with no fancy equipment required.
Awesome stuff.
If you get the chance I would love to see a Jack Frost made.
Greast show! Your camera man knows what hes doing! :)
I recently bought a bottle of Cinzano Bianco, only because they didn’t have any Noilly Prat. I can confirm that a martini one part Cinzano to six parts Absolut vodka with a lemon twist is pretty damn good.
So was it Noilly Prat Dry you used or was it the sweeter version? I do see you used Dolin Dry in the second one
love your drinks. very drunk myself. believe it or not this sentence took me 5 minutes to write. (lots of corrections)
I'd known that the hilariously small amount of vermouth is usually an exaggeration, but id never seen a recipe with equal parts before! I'll have to give this a try when it wouldn't count as morning drinking anymore.
Colonel Fox the earliest recipes tend towards equal parts, but everything before prohibition will have a lot more vermouth in it than is currently considered standard.
Now that it's 2021, two cocktails at a time isn't THAT CRAZY....
My grandpa's favorite cocktail is where you fill the glass with whisky and whisper "vermouth" over the top of the glass.
“And now for a how to drink first: two cocktails!” Oh you sweet summer child. You have no idea of the Manhattan matrix that’s coming…
There's this drink called the Louisiana Flip, it was in an old 30's movie called Grand Hotel, it sounds fun, but scared to try and make it lol
Thank you for this, because of you I'm sitting with the best martini I've ever made.
One question, what orange bitter would you recomend?
We're late to the party here but Scrappy's Seville Orange Bitters are game changing!
what camera do you use? there's some fantastic shots!!! love it.
We shot this on a RED Dragon 6k. I know, we're cheating...
I would love to know where you purchased the bottles you are using for your dashes of bitters and absinthe. Love your show!
That little dasher bottle I got years ago from Williams and Sonoma, and it's fine and worth looking into. But I don't know what it sells for now (or if it's still availble), likely you'll find more and better options for a more reasonable price at Cocktail Kingdom. And thank you!
Robert Kocks oh you give me far too much credit. But I wouldn't object to a bit of that either
Are you using a blanc Doling vermouth or the original dry for these?
Where did you get this gorgeous coupe glass at 2:11? I really wanna have it :'D
Now that Tom Martini didn't use Noilly-Prat. What was it?
I am disappointed at N-P for the bottle and label redesign. (As I was at Martini-Rossi.) I like that traditional look.
Opened a 15+ year old bottle of N-P Original French Dry the other day, as I ran across Boodle's gin (high proof) for the first time in about as long. 3-1/4 : 1 w/ 2 large Spanish olives (no pimento).
Can I ask how you went about putting that light into your bar countertop like that? I want to do the same thing at home.
Marked a circle, drilled a couple of pilot holes on the inside of the circle with a 1 inch diameter bit, Cut out the circle with a simple jig saw. Then I got a router and a square edge bit, lined it up, routed the inside edge to make a shelf for the plexiglass to sit on (1/4 inch drop). Then I cut a circle of 1/4 inch thick plexiglass to fit in the hole and sit on the ledge, buffed the edges of that on a buffing wheel.
Awesome Channel - or what I as a german call it: "Schnaps-Vlog"!
Thx a lot for all the inspiration!
Greetings from Berlin!
I always enjoy the show!
Question, you seem to favor cracked ice. Any particular reason? Or does it just look cool to crack a big cube over a cup?
The ice I use on the show is big and dense, it would take a lot more stirring to get the same level of dilution I want if I didn't crack the ice first.
Fair enough, and thanks for the answer. Follow up... any reason you don't just start with smaller cubes that wouldn't need to be cracked? Is it just personal preference?
What tool do you use for your peels?
Not sure if you've done this, but you should try making the Bare Knuckle Boxer from Hitman.
Magic Bottle @1:32 top shelf, don't blink.
*Points to old Martini* "This is brilliant"
*Holds up new one* "But I _like_ this"
I just notice that u were putting the mixing glass on a light :p
Yeah, the under light makes booze pretty
What was the name of the second gold rim glass you used, and do you know where you could get them from?
Sanjay Bhattacharya that's a style of glass called a Nick and Nora, and I got that particular one from Cocktail Kingdom
Question, what if the vermouth isn’t french? Also can you replace the harder spirit for something else? I’m not TOO partial to gin but if it is replaceable then why not.
I️ thought it had to do with weather or not you used dry vermouth or not?
My great grandpa liked his martinis with vodka and he liked to show the bottle of vermouth to the martini
I'm very intrigued by a Dry Martini with that much Vermuth in it, will try it out for sure. Does sound a bit heavy handed though, maybe there's a compromise inbetween.
Let me know how it goes!
this was something else!! much better than iv have tried before. can you explain why the gentlemen spy like his shaken *?
There’s a ton of apologists out there with all kinds of reasons that involve either revealing poisons, or masking the oils in inferior vodka, or adding more water to the drink to avoid becoming too drunk. They’re all nonsense. There’s really no good reason for it to be shaken, and I can’t really say why he does.
@Howtodrink Where do you get your research from! I love cocktail lore and would love to learn more!!
Thanks to Drinks Archaeologists a lot of the old hidden information is making a comeback now!
I really don't get this idea a lot of people have about what a dry martini should be, like rinsing the glass with vermouth and then dump it. Or another thing I read somewhere was the idea that a good Martini is made with gin that sat in the shadow of a bottle of vermouth. It's essentially a homeopathic Martini. At some point it's just gin with a garnish. You're not enjoying the fine taste of a Martini, you are enjoying a glass of gin. Just order some fucking gin that was stirred around with some ice, you damn troglodytes. It's propably even cheaper.
Or people can just order their martinis how they want? Maybe it’s just because I’m actually a bartender, but who the fuck cares? It’s all about personal preference.
I find you ignorance amusing
@@jacobpaul2232people should enjoy the drink they want, but than they shouldn't call the drink they're drinking a Martini
a dry martini should be dry so the least amount of vermouth to sweeten a dry gin makes perfect sense right?
@@tijmen131 I like my martini's with bourbon instead of gin and nothing else mixed into it. But I still call it a martini so it totally counts.
my first martini hit me like a truck... almost i remember that day... actually i only remember when i got the martini and drink it