How To Make the Mint Julep

How to make the Kentucky Derby Official cocktail - The Mint Julep

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Once a year the Kentucky Derby horse race takes place, and although the emphasis is on the race, there is a drink on the side-lines fuelling the Kentucky Derby vibe.

That drink is the Mint Julep. Over the course of two days at Churchill Downs, its estimated that more than 120,000 Mint Juleps are served.

Although Buffalo Trace have the monopoly on this drink, it hasn’t always been the way, in fact the mint julep didn’t originally call for bourbon, it didn’t even have mint.

That’s right, this Kentucky Derby signature serve had a whole life prior to the Kentucky Derby.

The earliest accounts call for just Rum, water and sugar. It was later in the early 1800s that Americans would serve the julep with French Brandy, usually cognac, and by the mid 1800s with a tax increase and slowing in brandy production, the spirit of choice was changed to bourbon, becoming the Mint Julep we know today.

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Author: Cameron Fielding

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Learn how to make the official cocktail of the Kentucky derby - The Mint Julep

Ingredients

• 2 ounces (60ml) Bourbon
• 0.5 ounces (20ml) Sugar Syrup
• 3-6 Mint leaves
• Angostura bitters

Instructions

1. In a Julep tin combine the bourbon, sugar syrup and mint leaves.
2. Fill to the top with crushed ice and churn for 10-20 seconds using a long spoon or swizzle stick.
3. Use your hands to ‘cap’ the top of the tin with more crushed ice and garnish with a sprig of mint and by dashing your angostura bitters on top of the ice cap for the aromatics.

Notes

Top Tips

Fancy mixing up the classic recipe? Try swapping out the sugar syrup for flavour syrup. Mint works great, as does raspberry.

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Nutrition Facts

Calories

177.01

Fat

0.04

Sat. Fat

0.01

Carbs

11.5

Fiber

0.36

Net carbs

11.14

Sugar

10.51

Protein

0.17

Sodium

10.18

Cholesterol

0

The nutritional information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice. See our full nutrition disclosure here.

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