Vodka Gimlet Recipe | Dishes Delish (2024)

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How do you make Stone Barrington's vodka gimlet? ›

Stone Barrington Freezer Door Gimlet

Pour six ounces from a 750 ml. bottle of vodka (you'll think of something to do with it), and replace with Rose's Sweetened Lime Juice, and a tiny bit of water. Shake, and put in the freezer overnight. The water will create ice shards.

Like it's more famous cousin, an authentic gimlet is gin based, but also works well with vodka instead. It's also just two ingredients poured into a co*cktail or coupe glass. But unlike a martini, the gin gimlet recipe calls for lime juice instead of vermouth. The original is also less fiddly.

co*cktail glass

Gimlet / Drinkware

However you take it, a gimlet is traditionally served in a chilled coupe, martini glass, or over ice in a rocks glass.

If you usually opt for a Gimlet when you're at a bar, you'll most likely pride yourself on being open and honest to those around you. You are confident in your own decisions, trust your own judgement and make great friends because of your straight-talking approach and stabilising force.

2) Gibson is a co*cktail made with vodka and vermouth, while a Gimlet is a co*cktail made with vodka and lime juice.

Dirty/extra dirty: a martini made with olive juice or brine and garnished with an olive. Bone-dry: a martini made with extremely little or no vermouth. Kangaroo: another name for a vodka martini.

DIRTY. For those who like their co*cktails to have a savoury edge, the Dirty Martini is a delicious, slightly salty, choice. The term 'dirty' means that olive brine, usually from a jar of co*cktail olives, has been added to the drink.

Almost any gin can work well in a gimlet, and your choice should be a matter of personal taste. Plymouth Gin is a classic that works nicely with the added citrus and still brings a juniper-forward profile with a touch of earth and pine.

The Gimlet is classically stirred but once you've added fresh citrus juice (unless you've clarified your juice) even if stirred this co*cktail won't be perfectly clear. So do as Harry Craddock directs in his 1930 Savoy co*cktail Book and use some elbow grease to shake and invigorate this upper deck's co*cktail.

How do you order a gimlet at a bar? ›

Ordering "a gimlet" will get you shakened gin and lime juice, with a dash of soda. If you want to up your gin preference, you'll of course need to state your gin preference (there is a pointed theme going here), and note the drink is classically served up and not on the rocks.

Whether using cordial, fresh juice, or a combination of the two, all bartenders agreed that the Gimlet should be shaken. “Make sure you shake it long enough,” warns Belanger. “Most home bartenders drastically under-shake their co*cktails.

What are common well drinks? Vodka soda, vodka cranberry screwdriver, Moscow mule, dirty Shirley, madras, kamikaze, gin and tonic, gin buck, gimlet, Cuba libre, daiquiri, mojito, dark and stormy, margarita, tequila sunrise, whiskey sour, whiskey and co*ke, and Long Island iced tea.

The glass was named by bartender Dale DeGroff for Nick and Nora Charles, a pair of fictional detectives. DeGroff was hired to lead the bar program at the Rainbow Room restaurant in New York City in 1987.

Alcohol can help preserve the mixture and extend its shelf life. Add a neutral spirit, like vodka, to bring your syrup's alcohol-by-volume (abv) up to about 15% to create a syrup that will last at least a few months. This equates to 5 fluid ounces, or a little more than ½ cup of alcohol, for one quart of syrup.