No. 29Vodka & Gin Pickle Cocktails
Pickle Bloody Mary
Brunch called. It wants the brine.
The Pickle Bloody Mary is a brunch Bloody Mary built with a full ounce of dill pickle brine alongside vodka, tomato juice, lemon, Worcestershire, horseradish and hot sauce. It is savory, tangy and medium-spicy, served over ice in a dill-salt-rimmed pint glass with a pickle spear riding next to the celery.
21+Updated
Brine3/53 of 5
Heat2/52 of 5
StrengthMedium
- Glass
- pint glass
- Method
- Built in the glass
- Time
- 5 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Make it for
Units
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- dill salt (coarse salt mixed with dried dill, for the rim)
- 2 oz vodka
- 4 oz tomato juice (chilled)
- 1 oz dill pickle brine
- ½ oz fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp prepared horseradish
- 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
- 2 dashes hot sauce (or more to taste)
- 1 pinch black pepper (freshly ground)
- 1 dill pickle spear (for garnish)
- 1 celery stalk (for garnish)
- 1 lemon wheel (to wet the rim, then garnish)
- Glass
- pint glass
- Rim
- dill salt
- Garnish
- pickle spear, celery stalk and lemon wheel
How to make it
- Wet the rim of a pint glass with the lemon wheel and dip it in dill salt.
- Fill the glass with ice.
- Add the vodka, tomato juice, pickle brine and lemon juice.
- Add the horseradish, Worcestershire, hot sauce and pepper.
- Stir well with a bar spoon until cold.
- Garnish with a pickle spear, a celery stalk and the lemon wheel.
Bar tips
- The brine and the salted rim do the seasoning, so skip the usual celery salt in the glass and add a pinch only if it tastes flat.
- If your tomato juice is already salty, add the brine a quarter ounce at a time.
- Mix a pitcher of everything but the vodka the night before; the flavors meld overnight.
Make it your own
- Use gin instead of vodka and you have a pickle Red Snapper.
- Skip the vodka for a zero-proof brunch drink.
Drink responsibly. This one is for adults of legal drinking age. Want it without the booze? The zero-proof drinks are just as briny.
Full recipe: dillin.org/recipes/pickle-bloody-mary
