rb608 wrote:
It's going to take a few paragraphs to get to the real question, but
as is my habit, I like to include a few hundred words of context.



What should I be looking for in the taste of a "good" vodka? What
type/brand do you like?

If I'm mixing, I use Skyy. I read a piece in a science magazine about
it a while back. The engineer who makes it always had a vodka headache
in the morning and he wanted a fomula with fewer impurities. Being an
engineer, he designed his own triple-column distillation system
specifically for vodka and marketed it. If I'm having straight vodka, I
pull a Grey Goose out of the freezer.

My recipe is this:

Per serving:
(5) drops lime juice into a martini glass
Fill a martini shaker with ice
(2) shots Skyy vodka into the shaker
(5) drops dry vermouth into the shaker
Shake it until frost forms on the outside of the shaker
Decant the martini into the glass
Spoon in an odd number of manzanilla olives, draining only slightly
If the olives are small, use (5)
If the olives are large, use (3)

Steve