Ice In My Martini/Some Martini Opinions - Beyond Tiki

T Traderpup Tiki Socialite Long Beach, CA Joined: Mar 26, 2002 Posts: 1055	T Traderpup Posted posted on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 3:20 PM If your shaken martini is coming out cloudy or fizzy, its being way overshaken. Don't shake the shaker up and down, causing the contents to leap up and down, but rather, hold the shaker upright in one hand, and rotate your wrist side to side quickly, swishing the liquid around. I switched to shaken over stirred. After breaking two vintage martini pitchers, the stainless shaker became a good friend of mine! My thoughts on the freezer gin: if I'm enjoying a gin thats heavy on the botanicals, I don't want a lot of dilution. So the cold gin, shaken with ice, suits me just fine. Also, as many of us aren't bartender pros, we tend to be a bit slower at mixing a drink, and using room temp gin over ice would get a little too diluted by the time it was poured. Generally, the more herbal a gin is, the less dilution it should get. About the kumquats... Magic Castle, in honoring WC Field's birthday, served up Sapphire martinis with fresh kumquats, not pickled. So I'll assume he enjoyed the fresh ones.

If your shaken martini is coming out cloudy or fizzy, its being way overshaken. Don't shake the shaker up and down, causing the contents to leap up and down, but rather, hold the shaker upright in one hand, and rotate your wrist side to side quickly, swishing the liquid around. I switched to shaken over stirred. After breaking two vintage martini pitchers, the stainless shaker became a good friend of mine!

My thoughts on the freezer gin: if I'm enjoying a gin thats heavy on the botanicals, I don't want a lot of dilution. So the cold gin, shaken with ice, suits me just fine. Also, as many of us aren't bartender pros, we tend to be a bit slower at mixing a drink, and using room temp gin over ice would get a little too diluted by the time it was poured. Generally, the more herbal a gin is, the less dilution it should get.

About the kumquats... Magic Castle, in honoring WC Field's birthday, served up Sapphire martinis with fresh kumquats, not pickled. So I'll assume he enjoyed the fresh ones.

Post #76024 by Traderpup on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 3:20 PM