GarnishesAlcohol-freeHigh confidenceStandard, well-documented cocktail ingredient.
Olive
An olive, usually a firm green variety, is a savory garnish traditionally speared and dropped into a drink, adding a briny, faintly bitter note to the first sip. It is closely associated with dry, spirit-forward stirred cocktails. Its saltiness plays against a drink's dryness.
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Common uses
- garnish for dry stirred cocktails
Buying & storage
A few days: Good for a few days refrigerated, then noticeably duller. Worth planning a second drink around rather than throwing away.
Storage: refrigerate in its brine once opened
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
No published recipe lists olive as an ingredient — but it may still appear below as a garnish or as a recommended substitute.
Garnish
Cocktails garnished with olive
These recipes don't mix it in — they finish with it, which is usually where its aroma does the most work.
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