Everyone likes their martini a little bit differently, just like their coffee. A whole bunch of vermouth or just a wash of the glass, to just looking at the vermouth bottle while stirring the drink... from olive brine to oyster brine, and everything in between, there is a martini for you to love. 

A dry martini means that it is less sweet, containing less dry vermouth (which is called dry itself as it is less sweet than its red counterpart). A wet martini will have a higher amount of vermouth in the mix and a dirty martini means the addition of brine.

 

We've provided a little guide here to stir up a whole slew of versions of the martini to find your favourite style.

 

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Tools needed: mixing glass, barspoon, strainer, martini glasses, measuring jigger

 

 METHOD: stir ingredients in a mixing glass with ice until frosty - strain into chilled martini glass or coupe and garnish as desired - see below for variations:

 

CLASSIC DRY MARTINI: 🌵

• barspoon of dry vermouth (or rinse the glass and toss)
• 2 oz Reid's Gin
• garnish with an olive or lemon twist

 

CLASSIC WET MARTINI: 💦

• 1 oz dry vermouth
• 2 oz Reid's Gin
• garnish with an olive or lemon twist

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GIBSON MARTINI: 🧅

• garnish with a pickled onion
• wash glass with brine if desired

 

DIRTY MARTINI: 🫒

• add 1/2 - 3/4 oz olive brine (or caper brine, oyster brine... 🦪)
• garnish with an olive

 

BURNT MARTINI: 🥃

• wash the glass with scotch before pouring the martini
• garnish with a lemon twist or an olive (or both!)

 

VESPER MARTINI: 🍋

• 1oz lillet blanc or other white wine aperitif like cocchi americano
• 1oz vodka
• 2oz Reid's Gin
• shaken, not stirred
• garnish with a lemon twist

 

PERFECT MARTINI 🍊

• 1/2oz dry vermouth
• 1/2oz sweet vermouth
• 2oz Reid's Gin
• dash orange bitters
• garnish with lemon peel

 

MARTINEZ 🍒

• 1oz sweet vermouth
• 2oz Reid's gin
• barspoon Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
• dash of aromatic bitters
• garnish with lemon peel

 

OBITUARY MARTINI: ☠️

• 1/4oz absinthe
• 1/4oz dry vermouth
• 2oz Reid's Gin
• garnish with lemon peel

 

TUXEDO #2: ⧓

• absinthe rinse (1/12oz absinthe swirled in glass and tossed)
• 1/2oz bianco vermouth (different than dry vermouth)
• 1/4oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
• 4 dashes orange bitters
• 2oz Reid's Gin

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STRAIGHT-UP: 🍸

• the classic way to serve a martini, chilled and strained into a stemmed glass

STRAIGHT-DOWN: 🥃

• served chilled in a rocks glass with no ice

ON-THE-ROCKS: 🧊

• served chilled and strained over ice

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