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Recipes · Forgotten classics · no. 4
Fifty-Fifty
Same as a Martini, just more vermouth.
Before the dry Martini took over, bars poured it wet, and this one has been in bar books since 1917: equal parts gin and dry vermouth. It beats a dry Martini. Forgotten classics, no. 4.
Ingredients
- 2 oz 60 mlGin
- 2 oz 60 mlDry Vermouth
- stirred
- coupe
- Spanish olive
Method
- Add gin and dry vermouth to a mixing glass.
- Stir with ice for 20 seconds.
- Strain into a chilled coupe.
- Garnish with a Spanish olive on a pick.
Taste
How the Fifty-Fifty tastes
It's mostly herbal and boozy. In the app, your own taste shows on top of this chart as a dashed line.
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Martini
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Gibson
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Hanky Panky
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