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Derivative · Gin

Churchill (Bone-Dry) Martini

Chilled gin (maybe a vermouth rinse...maybe)

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Ingredients

  • 3 ½ ozLondon dry gin
  • 0Vermouth (vermouth is represented by simply looking at an unopened bottle or bowing toward France/Italy or having the bottle waved near the glass)

Method

  1. Pour extremely cold (read: frozen) gin into a stirring glass with a large hunk of ice. Stir until it gets impossibly colder.
  2. Chill (read: freeze) a martini glass. Once frozen, IF (and ONLY IF) absolutely desired, rinse it briefly with dry vermouth then discard the vermouth
  3. Strain gin into said extremely cold martini glass (read: frozen). The glass should be impossibly colder than you've ever seen in your life
  4. Garnish with lemon twist or olive

History

Winston Churchill disdained vermouth. Winston Churchill liked martini glasses. Solution? Drink straight gin in cold martini glasses and pretend it was a martini. Simple. You either have the balls to drink this - or not.

Flavour

Sweet
Bitter
Sour
Boozy

Details

Glass
Martini glass
Garnish
Lemon twist or olive
Technique
stirred

Family

Derived from

Dry Martini - remove the vermouth

Compared with Dry Martini

What changes: remove the vermouth.

Dry Martini

  • 2 ½ ozLondon dry gin (preferably frozen)
  • ½ ozDry vermouth
  • 1 dashOrange bitters (optional)

Churchill (Bone-Dry) Martini

  • 3 ½ ozLondon dry gin
  • 0Vermouth (vermouth is represented by simply looking at an unopened bottle or bowing toward France/Italy or having the bottle waved near the glass)

Green = new ingredient · Gold = different amount · Red = not used in Churchill (Bone-Dry) Martini

Other takes on the Dry Martini

Dirty Martini (Gin)Gibson (Gin)Martinez (Gin)Vesper (Gin)