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A Martini built with olive brine: savory, briny, and a polarizing fixture of American bar culture.
Typical way it's made: 2.5 oz gin, 0.5 oz dry vermouth, 0.5 oz olive brine
Bartenders had barely settled the vermouth question when someone started tipping olive brine straight into the glass, a habit usually dated to the early 20th century. The brine turns the drink savory and faintly cloudy, a salt-forward outlier in a family built on austerity, and American bars never looked back.
Did you know
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the drink's most famous evangelist: he mixed Martinis for his guests through the war years, and the story goes his brine-laced version reached Stalin at the Tehran Conference to a polite review at best.
Also known as: olive martini
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