# Dry gin

Gin made with no more than a trace of added sweetening.

Parent category: [Gin](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/gin.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Types

- [London dry gin](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/london-dry-gin.md): 40% ABV. A dry distilled gin whose flavour comes entirely from natural botanicals distilled together, with no colour and virtually no sweetening.

## Cocktails

- [Alaska](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/alaska.md): A vivid early Martini relative pairing dry gin with honeyed, herbaceous Yellow Chartreuse and orange bitters.
- [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.
- [Bloodhound](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bloodhound.md): A Savoy-era perfect Gin Martini shaken with ripe strawberries, where dry juniper and vermouth keep the fresh fruit unexpectedly taut.
- [Bramble](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bramble.md): Dick Bradsell's London gin sour, lengthened over crushed ice and streaked with dark blackberry liqueur.
- [Dirty Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/dirty-martini.md): A restrained, savoury Martini in which a measured splash of olive brine seasons rather than overwhelms the gin and vermouth.
- [Fog Cutter](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fog-cutter.md): Trader Vic’s heavyweight combines three spirits beneath a strikingly lemon-led citrus body, with orgeat binding the drink before a sweet-sherry float.
- [Gibson](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gibson.md): A dry gin Martini whose pickled cocktail onion brings a subtle savoury sweetness to the glass.
- [Gimlet](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gimlet.md): A taut two-part classic concentrating dry gin and preserved lime into a piercing, bittersweet drink.
- [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.
- [Gin Rickey](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-rickey.md): The austere Washington highball brightens dry gin with fresh lime and cold soda, preserving the Rickey's defining absence of sugar.
- [Gordon’s Breakfast](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gordons-breakfast.md): Gin, muddled lime and cucumber, sugar, Worcestershire, hot sauce, salt, and pepper make a vivid non-tomato savoury cocktail with breakfast-table nerve.
- [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.
- [Ideal Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ideal-cocktail.md): Fresh grapefruit and dry maraschino brighten a shaken gin-and-sweet-vermouth cocktail poised between the Martinez and the Bronx.
- [Journalist Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/journalist-cocktail.md): A Perfect Martini gains tiny dashes of lemon, curaçao, and Angostura in this Savoy-era shaken cocktail.
- [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.
- [Monkey Gland](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monkey-gland.md): Gin and fresh orange sharpened by absinthe and grenadine.
- [Opera Cocktail (Savoy)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/opera-cocktail-savoy.md): The Savoy’s Opera is a cherry-darkened dry Gin Martini, with Dubonnet’s quinquina bitterness connecting juniper to maraschino.
- [Red Lion](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/red-lion.md): Arthur Tarling’s competition-winning London sour surrounds dry gin and Cognac-based orange liqueur with equal flashes of lemon and orange.
- [Rolls Royce](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/rolls-royce.md): A Perfect Martini structure of dry gin and both vermouths gains a small honeyed, herbal accent from Bénédictine.
- [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.
- [Too Soon?](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/too-soon.md): A regal shake with thin orange slices gives this gin-and-Cynar sour fragrant peel oils and soft fruit depth without muddling bitterness into the drink.
- [Turf Club](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/turf-club.md): Dry gin and vermouth become unusually dimensional under measured accents of maraschino, absinthe, and orange bitters, placing this turn-of-the-century Martini relative beside but not inside the Tuxedo family.
- [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.
- [Twentieth Century](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/twentieth-century.md): Dry gin and lemon sharpen white cacao and Lillet Blanc into C. A. Tuck’s poised 1937 British modernist classic.
- [Wibble](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/wibble.md): Dry gin and sloe gin share the base of a brisk grapefruit sour, while tiny measures of blackberry liqueur and sugar deepen the hedgerow fruit without turning it jammy.
- [Yellow Daisy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/yellow-daisy.md): Equal gin and dry vermouth meet rich orange liqueur and an absinthe accent in a compact, bracing Savoy relative of the Martini.

## References

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- Source: https://www.theginguild.com/about-the-gin-guild/what-is-gin/