DO NOT Refrigerate Your Vermouth

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DO NOT Refrigerate Your Vermouth

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Жыл бұрын

Should you refrigerate sweet vermouth? Cocktail snobs say yes. Bartenders don't even know that it is recommended and leave their bottles on the shelf. But are they wrong?
I tested it over 10 weeks. Refrigerated vermouth, unrefrigerated vermouth, uncorked vermouth, and a bonus test of 9 month old refrigerated vermouth.

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@kasufert Жыл бұрын

Chad respect getting out here and testing

@scurfie2343 3 ай бұрын

I had 1 liter bottles of M&R sweet and dry vermouth opened but not refrigerated for over a year. I just finished them this week and they were absolutely fine for my Manhatten.

@willibtx Жыл бұрын

That's really interesting. Sugar content also preserves stuff, so I wonder what the results would be like for dry vermouth. In my own experience, I've only ever had dry vermouth go rancid when sitting on the shelf.

@DrinkingWithTony Жыл бұрын

Good point. I haven't tried older dry vermouth.

@jamesgraham6796 8 ай бұрын

How many people rewound to see what had been moved around the kithen ?

@owensteven_ 7 ай бұрын

Great video ! I think I'll replicate this at some point w/dry vermouth, as it smells off the quickest as some others here are saying. One note to add though - right now I have a ~7 months old bottle of Dolin dry in my fridge. I just made a martini with it, and I always smell it before pouring. It usually smells off, but then I always taste a small pour and it never **tastes** bad. I do wonder if the liquid that gets caught around the cap thread gets way more funky (relatively) because of the not-as-air-tighted-ness. Definitely did not ruin the drink, either. Just some food for thought!

@davidbeckett1565 Жыл бұрын

An interesting video. It would be informative to see what a blind taste test revealed, particularly if you were testing bottles (possibly two of each age: one kept in the fridge and one in the room) which were one week old, a month old, and three months old, then repeated the test every month for several weeks to see what changes you could detect

@DrinkingWithTony Жыл бұрын

That would be interesting except these bottles aren't particularly cheap. Maybe with some Martini and Rossi. I do however still have these bottles and will try to do a quick update blind test in about a month.

@davidbeckett1565 Жыл бұрын

@@DrinkingWithTony That would be very informative

@sneezachoo Жыл бұрын

Curious if you thought to do the tasting blind or would in the future?

@DrinkingWithTony Жыл бұрын

I would have tried it blind if I thought there was a difference between the refrigerated and unrefrigerated. But since I couldn't tell the difference I don't think doing it blind would weed out any bias.