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Ben’s Martini is a classic-style, dry Martini from Hollywood hot spot, The Benjamin, and is made with Monkey 47 Gin, Noilly Prat Original Dry vermouth, and a lemon twist.

This Martini was created for the opening menu at Hollywood hotspot, The Benjamin Hollywood, and is a classic, dry Martini made with Monkey 47 Gin, Noilly Prat Original Dry vermouth, and a lemon twist.

Preparation. Fill a glass beaker or cocktail shaker with ice and pour in ½ oz. dry vermouth.Stir 15 seconds, then let sit 30 seconds. Stir again, then strain out and discard vermouth.

“Filthy” Martini Zach Johnston. Ingredients: 2 oz. American dry gin (plus a splash) 0.5 oz. dry vermouth; 0.5 oz. Filthy Olive Brine; 1 dash of Angostura Bitters ...

By 1952, the extra-dry martini had become what C.B. Palmer writing in The New York Times Magazine, called “a mass madness, a cult, a frenzy, a body of folklore, a mystique, an expertise of a ...