Weird Beard

It is really, really good.

So I just wanted to let everybody know that if there's a dry vermouth cocktail or just someone who just likes to drink a vermouth before dinner, go give Nolly slash Noily – I don't know how they pronounce it.

I should have looked that up – Pratt out.

and also I will note that, um, in part of my argument that the original martini was made with sweet vermouth.

And that's the reason why I, a martini with dry vermouth is specifically stated as a dry martini.

Um,

One thing to note also is that Martini and Rossi is, of course, an Italian company.

And if you read old cocktail books like Turn of the Century, they will sometimes refer to a cocktail either taking French or Italian vermouth.

And Italian vermouth essentially means sweet vermouth.

So that is the red sweet variety.

And the white dry variety is, is considered French vermouth.

So the fact that this stuff is made in France too, that's another little feather in its cap.

And you, you were saying, did you talk about the Malort book?

No, that was oddball that put that there.

I want to hear all about that.

I read an article about the history of Ballort.

So again, this was just a web article as opposed to a whole bound book.

So yours might be more authoritarian.

But I've heard that the guy that I think was his name, Jobson?

Yeah.