No. 27Vodka & Gin Pickle Cocktails
Pickle Gimlet
Sharp gin sour with a salty little secret.
A Pickle Gimlet is gin, fresh lime juice and simple syrup shaken with dill pickle brine and served up in a coupe. It is sharp, sweet-tart and lightly salty, a sour-forward sipper where the brine works like a pinch of salt on the lime.
21+Updated
Brine2/52 of 5
HeatNonenone
StrengthHigh
- Glass
- coupe
- Method
- Shaken
- Time
- 3 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Make it for
Units
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- 2 oz gin
- ¾ oz fresh lime juice
- ¾ oz simple syrup (1:1 sugar and water)
- ½ oz dill pickle brine
- 1 lime wheel (for garnish)
- 1 dill pickle chip (for garnish)
- Glass
- coupe
- Garnish
- lime wheel and pickle chip
How to make it
- Chill a coupe glass.
- Add the gin, lime juice, simple syrup and pickle brine to a shaker.
- Fill the shaker with ice and shake hard for 15 seconds.
- Double-strain into the chilled coupe.
- Garnish with a lime wheel and a pickle chip.
Bar tips
- Stick to dill brine; a sweet bread-and-butter brine throws off the sweet-tart balance.
- Squeeze the lime fresh; bottled lime juice tastes flat and bitter next to the brine.
Make it your own
- For the old-school version, replace the lime juice and syrup with ¾ oz lime cordial.
- Use vodka for a Pickle Vodka Gimlet.
Bar lore
Raymond Chandler gave the Gimlet its most quoted line in his 1953 novel The Long Goodbye, where a character insists a real one is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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-gimlet
