“That may be the most horrid thing that I have ever tasted” …was my lovely wife’s reaction to the “martini” that I have just concocted.

Before you judge me too harshly (and I know that I deserve it), please know that I work very hard to purchase and drink all of these wines for you.  Know that I do it for you.  I sacrifice my liver, day after day, to ensure that you know what bottles to pick up and what bottles to avoid.  Sometimes…just sometimes, I don’t feel like wine.  I feel like a beer.  And maybe another beer.  And then maybe I’ll try to make a pseudo-martini with whatever I have in my liquor cabinet - today was one of those days.

The ingredients, and no, it turns out that I’m not too proud to tell you are:

One healthy pour of Seagram’s Lime Flavored Gin (pretty awful on its own)
One splash of Taylor’s Dry Sherry (we only use it for cooking, and I didn’t have vermouth)
One splash of green olive brine
Two olives - one to eat on the spot and one for later

All were shaken, over ice and poured into our sole martini glass.  Sadly, I think that this glass is the widow of a forgotten pair of martini glasses that met their end the way most glasses die - they meet their maker at high velocity after a drunken fall.  Honestly, I have no idea what happened - that’s just my best guess.

Glasses aside, how did these fine ingredients taste?

Bloody awful.  I completely agree with her; this drink is shit.  My punishment?  My conscience, and some twisted issue with wasting alcohol, will not let me pour it out and just enjoy a gin and tonic, or another beer, or a bottle of wine.  This is my torture for making such a shitty drink - I will finish it, and my guess is quite rapidly.  Probably like a shot.

Happy New Year’s Eve!
-Ryan

 Revision - Posted 20 minutes later

Yes, I am an idiot - I tried it again.  Skip the olive juice and it tastes like cold gin with a little sherry coloring.  We’re rockin’ now.

-Ryan