| IBA Official Cocktail | |
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| Type | Cocktail |
| Primary alcohol by volume | |
| Served | Straight up; without ice |
| Standard garnish |
Salted glass |
| Standard drinkware | Highball glass |
| IBA specified ingredients* |
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| Preparation | Shake vodka and grapefruit juice in cocktail shaker. Strain into a salt rimmed highball glass filled with ice. |
| * Salty dog recipe at International Bartenders Association | |
A Salty Dog is a cocktail of vodka and grapefruit juice, served in a glass with a salted rim. The salt is the only difference between a Salty Dog and a Greyhound. Gin may be used as a substitute for vodka as in a gimlet.
In the Elmore Leonard novel Swag, the Salty Dog is the preferred drink of honest and hard-working career criminals Frank Ryan and Ernest Stickley, Jr.
In the television series The Larry Sanders Show, the Salty Dog is the preferred drink of Artie (played by Rip Torn).
In the turn-based web game Kingdom of Loathing, the Salty Dog is a mid-grade drink made by mixing gin and grapefruit.
During his years at the Arkansas Gazette, historian Michael Barrier recalled once being seated next to True Grit author Charles Portis at a drinking establishment. Barrier ordered a Salty Dog while Portis "was drinking something darker and much more menacing". Barrier reports Portis "looked incredulous when my drink arrived. When I told him what it was, he responded with a devastating critique..."[1]
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