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Blue Cheese and a Chilled Glass

To make this all that much more enjoyable, chill the martini glass in the freezer and also add blue cheese stuffed olives.

Blue Cheese and a Chilled Glass

To make this all that much more enjoyable, chill the martini glass in the freezer and also add blue cheese stuffed olives.

youngandrich
By Jason, atlanta ga.

I love this drink. I usually drink fruity/punchy drinks, but when out with the "in" crowd or clients, you have to be a descerning drinker, and this totally fits the bill with the crowd. But BE WARE...if you drink more than two, you will end up calling a cab. im speaking from personal experiance.

Can you say DRUNK!
By Eternal-E

The taste of this drink is not so good. but if you want to get drunk this is the drink for you. I had one at my girlfriends house. one got me kinda tipsy But I have to say.. I would have another .. but I wouldn't pay for it. rather get a Long Island Iced tea

VODKA Martini

Who under the age of 50 drinks Gin Martinis? Substitute Vodka insted of Gin to make this drink enjoyable!

Skip The Vermouth

Leave out the vermouth, Shake that bad boy w/ Vodka insted of Gin, lots of ice and you got yourself a wonderful cocktail....Salut!!

Artbeau

I love a dirty martini when I want to take the edge off of a regular dry martini... GIN??? Bite your tongue... I'm not fifty. The vodka martini is entirely devoid of character. But, this is not a new debate. I say, gin, vodka... let's make em good and cold and toast to life.

NASTY!!!
By Mr. Nemo

I love Martinis & I love Olives but this drink is TOTALLY DISGUSTING!!!

we are awesome

martinis....suck, gin martinis suck worse

Gin and more gin. And onions.
By Gordo

What's with all the vodka weiners? Gin is the new pink. It's classy, clean, nippy, refreshing, and delicious. A gin dirty on the rocks -with pickled onions - is the perfect addition to ANY evening. or afternoon, or morning...

The best!
By DorothyParkerIsGod

Heres the best martini recipe. 1. Mist your glass with water, but ONLY OUTSIDE. Pop it in the freezer until its frosty and clouded over. 2. Pull out the frosted glass and drop in 2 or 3 large olives. The best are greek greens stuffed with slivered almonds. Then dribble in about a spoonful of brine. Nantucket Off Shore sells bottled brine. 3. You should already have a bottle of GG or Ketel in the freezer, so pull it out, along with your shaker and 1 large ice cube. Pull out the bottle of vermouth. Wave it over your glass and put that shit away. 4. Plop the cube in the shaker, then add a 9 count measure of vodka. 5. Shake the crap out of it, then rather than using the attached strainer, pull it off and use a knife to keep the ice cube out of the glass. This will give you a nice crisp layer of ice chips on top. 6. Drink. Rinse. Repeat

Dirty Sue is Awesome!!!
By Staci R.

I tried a martini with vodka and that Dirty Sue olive juice. It was the best I ever had. All my friends liked it too. . . Dirty Sue, WE LOVE YOU!

Dirty Sue. Finally!
By John Howyadoin

I love dirty martinis, but the juice was a problem. To "dirty", not dirty enough, just inconsistent. FINALLY! someone bottled the perfect tasting juice. Dirty Sue! Not just bottled salt water, the REAL stuff! Whoever says Dirty Sue sucks... well, maybe you should just stick to your Long Islands, and leave the real drinks to us in the know. It's OK, I too drank L.I.T.'s when I was a child. One day you'll understand that a Dirty Sue martini is for an adult. How about this - Dirty Sue will get you laid.

Captain Jack

I like it with just a drop or two of juice from the olive jar. Too much of the brine over powers the taste of the "Boodles Gin", my personal favorite.

Prof. Dr.

The so-called vodka martini is to a proper (prefarably Beefeater, though Tanquaray will do in a pinch),gin martini, as Pepi Cola is to Coca Cola, i.e. a pathetic low-grade imitation that has been palmed off on the masses as the real thing. By the way, as a tribute to Edward G. Robinson (specifically in the act of unraveling the murder plot in Double Indemnity), add TWO olives to that ice cold nectar!

Vodka martinis suck
By Mike

This drink is so so compared to an ordinary martini. What is up with all the vodkatini drinkers? Some people want to omit the vermouth altogether? Sad. What is the point of drinking a martini with vodka instead of gin? What you get is vermouth-flavored vodka not a martini. Yuck! Just drink the vodka straight if you don't like vermouth or drink the vermouth straight if you're just going to cut it with vodka. The whole reason you mix gin with vermouth is because the taste of gin is well, 'complex', and the vermouth, being derived from wine, makes is smoother. It's a perfect blend. Vodkas tends to have practically no distinct taste. Instead they adopt the flavor of whatever it is mixed with. Thus the whole range of citrus, peach, apple, strawberry, raspberry, and so on and so forth, vodkas. I think the vodka martini is the perfect drink for a generation of people who think cocktails should taste like Kool-Aid. Next think you know they'll be advocating substituting the vermouth for Strawberry Schnapps or Cherry-flavored Brandy to improve the flavor of their vodka martinis. The vodka martini should be called the Kindergarten Martini. Maybe they should omit the olives (or onions) and add an umbrella (or two), a cherry, and a slice of pineapple to this 'martini'. I'm only in my 20s but it seems like people my age are complete wimps when it comes to a cocktails.

Prof. Dr.

Dirty Sue, my kind of girl!

Our bar has been carrying Dirty Sue for a few years now. By far the best product on the market in its catagory. I have tried a few "knock-offs" and regretted it immediately. Matter of fact, I refuse to have a dirty martini made with anything else.

Best Drink Ever!
By Jenny

Make sure you order this one extra dirty. This is just enough to take the edge off.

Bornin1950

The "Vodka Martinis suck" ( by Mike ) review fairly well summed it up.I never understood how one of America's greatest gifts to the world ( jazz, baseball, etc ) the Martini could have come to be so misunderstood and mangled in it's New Millennium-Yuppie-Gen X incarnations. It has to be made with Gin and Dry Vermouth. Bombay Sapphire and Noilly Prat(3.5 to 1) would do right nicely. It also has to be ice cold. With a Green olive. Hmmm.... I could have one right about now. What it can never include and still be a Martini is .... Vodka. If you add a cocktail onion to a Martini you call it a Gibson. If you add sweet Vermouth to Whiskey you call it a Manhattan. Changing the core ingredients in a cocktail presumes calling the new mixture by it's own new name. It's like calling Badmitten Tennis. Vodka's a wonderful spirit. Sometimes nothing beats a couple of very cold straight shots of Vodka slammed down and continuing on one's way. A delightful buzz. However.... mixing it with Vermouth and God-knows-what else will never and should never be called a Martini. Call these concoctions whatever you like. A Vodkatini is acceptable. Leave the "Mar" out of it. The "Mar" and the "tini" are as sancrosanct a union as Lennon and McCartney, Abbet and Costello or Meat and Potatos. Only Gin, folks.

JD Martin

2 oz Jack Daniels (stored in the freezer) 1/2 oz Dry Vermouth (stored in the freezer) shake 1/2 cup of crushed ice in strainer and pour into a frosted martini glass and add 3 olives. ONE is ENUFF but if you have a strong constitution ENJOY !

I made it with vodka
By I'll have another

used vodka instead of gin, and changed the volumes a bit, i used 3 oz vodka, 1 oz dry vermouth, and about a tbs of the dirt. went down pretty smooth...if you like olives anyways

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