They seem so good in the movies, but actually taste mostly just like straight vodka, which most people aren’t going to enjoy.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      Some very early martini recipes call for equal parts gin and sweet vermouth. There’s been a century-long trend toward dryer and dryer martinis until we arrive at the modern recipe:

      fill a tumbler full of ice, add three ounces of gin, pour half an ounce of dry vermouth down the sink next door, stir, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a green olive.

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      1 day ago

      That is absolutely correct.

      I was asking the op if he used sweet vermouth to determine if op used sweet vermouth. Because that would be a Manhattan. Sorta.