# Dirty Martini

A restrained, savoury Martini in which a measured splash of olive brine seasons rather than overwhelms the gin and vermouth.

Strength: 33% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 60 ml [Dry gin](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/dry-gin.md)
- 15 ml [Dry vermouth](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/dry-vermouth.md)
- 5 ml [Olive brine](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/olive-brine.md)

## Glassware

Martini glass

## Garnish

- Green olive — Garnish with three olives on a cocktail pick.

## Method

1. Stir all the ingredients with ice until very cold.
2. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

## Related drinks

- [Gibson](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gibson.md): A dry gin Martini whose pickled cocktail onion brings a subtle savoury sweetness to the glass.
- [Hoffman House Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hoffman-house-cocktail.md): A shaken two-to-one dry-gin Martini seasoned with orange bitters and fragrant orange oil.
- [Savoy Hotel Special Cocktail No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/savoy-hotel-special-cocktail-no-1.md): A tiny trace of grenadine and absinthe pulls a two-to-one dry Gin Martini into the theatrical but still austere world of the Savoy bar.
- [Tuxedo No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tuxedo-no-1.md): Equal dry gin and vermouth, a broad lemon peel, and absinthe make Harry Craddock’s 1930 Tuxedo branch austere, aromatic, and deliberately distinct from the sweeter original.
- [Arsenic and Old Lace](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/arsenic-and-old-lace.md): Violet perfume threads through a dry gin Martini while a discarded absinthe rinse leaves only an anise shadow, making this modern normalization much lighter than the startling 1941 namesake.
- [Marguerite](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/marguerite.md): An equal-parts ancestor of the Dry Martini, softer and more wine-led, with orange bitters tying gin to vermouth.
- [Gin & It](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-and-it.md): Dry gin and fresh Italian sweet vermouth form the spare British shorthand for a Sweet Martini, published here in David Embury’s crisp three-to-one shape.
- [Dry Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/dry-martini.md): An ice-cold, spirit-forward pairing of gin and dry vermouth.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/dirty-martini
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/dirty-martini-43c36242.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.wineenthusiast.com/recipe/dirty-martini/