Jumbo Martini
"I'm just having one drink tonight."
Today we're learning how to make soup with olive croutons aka a big 'ole batch of dirty martini. So grab your largest coupe and let's do this 🍸
ingredients:
1 Bottle (750ml) Gin or Vodka
¾ Cup Dry Vermouth
½ Cup Olive Brine
1 oz | 30 ml Bitters
1 oz Saline (20%)
Lemon Twist (Garnish) per cocktail
3 Olives (Garnish) per cocktail
instructions:
In all seriousness, this is a batched cocktail so please drink responsibly :)
To build: Combine all ingredients except garnish in a pitcher with ice. Stir and strain and into a 1L container. Store in a fridge or freezer until ready to serve. Alternatively, you can skip the pitcher step and dilute with 1 cup of water then store in the freezer if batching ahead of time.
To serve: Pour the cocktail into a chilled coupe, express zest from an lemon peel and add olives or other garnish to each cocktail. Serve and enjoy!
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I’m your huckleberry 🤠
I just got back from Montana with my friends at @traegergrills. It was strictly a grilling event but given what I do, of course I had to get behind the bar. I knew I wanted to incorporate local Montana ingredients like huckleberry, juniper (grown on site) and honey but also wanted to incorporate smoke from the grill. So I had the idea to make a bramble type cocktail.
For the smokey element, I smoked some local raw honey along with some juniper berries on the Traeger to just get a kiss of smoke. I then constructed the cocktail originally using gin like a traditional bramble, but the juniper botanicals overpowered the recipe so I switched to a reposado tequila and knew it was the perfect fit. They also had some locally made huckleberry liqueur which was the perfect last ingredient to top the cocktail and bring that sweet/sour/fruity element to the cocktail. Finally topped it with that smoked juniper berry branch to give it that botanical pop and tricking your brain into thinking you’re drinking a bramble when you’re actually drinking something closer to a margarita.
Given the ingredients and location, it was just fitting to call this the ‘Big Sky Bramble.’ Cheers y’all.
Big thanks to @i_drewcifer for the R&D help!
🎥: @tobojosh / @grillvaultbbq