The Gibson
The classic gin cocktail, the Gibson, is three ingredients strong and packs a whollop of flavor and brine. Travel back to pre-prohibition and enjoy this gin classic.
Ingredients
- 2 parts Gin
- 1/2 part Vermouth ***make it dry vermouth for a more pungent flavor, use sweet vermouth if you like that lollipop sweetness. Use more or less to your liking.
- 57 brined onions Not really 57, unless you LOVE the brine. One or two is just fine.
Instructions
- Chill you cocktail glass. The freezer, with ice, or upside down in a vat of ice cubes.
- Find the fanciest cocktail stirring glass you can and add your gin and vermouth.
- Add about 1/2 cup ice.
- Stir. Hopefully, that part's obvious.
- Strain into your martini glass.
Notes
You have the option of adding vermouth to the glass and swirling around, then tossing the excess if that's your preference for a more gin forward cocktail.
Do be aware of the brined pearl onions that you add, some are swimming in sweet vermouth and will add too much sugar to your cocktail. Unless you're into that.
For brine weirdos out there, two things. One, I salute you. Two, pour a little brine in your cocktail stirring glass with your gin and vermouth. Or a lot of brine.