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Step 1 – Add 1 Oz gin into mixing glass

Step 2 – Add 0.5 Oz dry vermouth into mixing glass

Step 3 – Add ice

Step 4 – Stir it

Step 4 – Strain into chilled cocktail glass

Step 5 – Garnish with two cocktail onions on toothpick

Easy Gibson Cocktail Recipe Video

Video Transcript

Today, we’re going to make an old standard, the Gibson.

For this drink, you’re going to need a cocktail glass, a measuring cup, a Hawthorne strainer, a bar spoon, a mixing glass, and a fancy toothpick.

This drink uses gin, dry vermouth, and cocktail onions, which are basically brined pearl onions. The Gibson is like the fraternal twin of the martini. It lacks the bitters and instead of an olive or lemon twist is garnished with its signature cocktail onions. Unlike the martini, the Gibson is more of a rarity than its ubiquitous sibling. It looks deceptively gentle but this drink is a bare-knuckled sucker punch to the gut of our modern corn syrup saturated palates. This one is not for the faint-hearted. It’s a bold drink for bold times. You might have to work your way up to this one.

We’ll start by chilling the cocktail glass. We’ll set that aside. Next, pour two ounces of gin add, that to the mixing glass, then pour half-an-ounce of dry vermouth, and add that to the mixing glass. Next, we’ll add ice and stir. As always, the idea here is to get it the extremely cold. Give it a good amount of dilution, and with this one, it’s really important. Once you’re done stirring, dump the ice from your cocktail glass and strain the contents of your mixing glass into your chilled cocktail glass. Spear two cocktail onions on your fancy toothpick and garnish them on top of your glass.

There it is, the Gibson. Enjoy.

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