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KENTUCKY DERBY MINT JULEP RECIPE OFFICIAL HOW TO
KENTUCKY DERBY MINT JULEP RECIPE OFFICIAL PRO

Add the bourbon and stir a few times just to marry all the flavors together.

Don’t over crush or grind - just muddle enough that the sugar cubes are broken up and form a nice base. Muddle to crush the sugar cubes, which will slightly grind the mint leaves which, in turn, releases their oils.

Add sugar cubes, water, and six whole mint leaves (no stems) to the bottom of the highball glass.

Collins glass, large lowball glass, or a pewter cup.

It also helps with the frosting over the glass, which is nice and chilly to touch. That makes this drink a great, long-sipping cocktail. That extra surface area gets the cocktail so cold, it dips below the freezing point and stops the ice melt for quite a while. What’s happening - and what makes this such a great hot-weather cocktail - is that the crushed ice creates a ton of surface area that then refreezes. Standard crushed ice works perfectly fine. Shaved ice and hand-crushed ice is the fancy way to make this drink. If you have those smaller mint leaves (think the size of your thumbnail), you’ll need about ten or more.įinally, there’s the ice. I ended up using six mint leaves, plucked from the stem. That being said, I used standard mint and it was fine. You should use fresh spearmint if you can find it. They have a little more of a molasses sweetness and tend to crush and dissolve a little more easily than a standard white sugar cube. So by the time you get to the bottom of the drink, the sugar should have fully dissolved. For me, that takes away from the granulated sugar vibe at the bottom of the drink. You can 100 percent use simple bar syrup in this drink to really speed up the preparation. Plus, Woodford Reserve’s standard bourbon is pretty damn tasty on its own. Woodford Reserve ( grab a bottle here) is the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby.

Fresh mint (six leaves for cocktail and more for garnish).And if you’re really feeling ambitious… Hot Rod Julep

KENTUCKY DERBY MINT JULEP RECIPE OFFICIAL HOW TO

How to mix: In camping mug muddle mint in the syrup, add bourbon and crushed ice, stir down until the mug is chilled, dome with crushed ice, and add ginger beer/ale. Garnish with a mint sprig. How to mix: Mix one part honey with one part boiling water. Lightly press and roll mint leaves along a derby glass. Half fill glass with crushed ice and pour in half the liquid. Place more crushed ice on top and pour in remaining liquid. Garnish with mint sprig. The third - the Hot Rod Julep - comes courtesy of Rabbit Hole’s resident mixologist Ashley Angel. The first two recipes come from contacts at the liquor companies themselves (yes, they aren’t all bourbon, but whatever. So we reached out to some expert mixologists and bartenders for a twist. The traditional Mint Julep is all well and good, but maybe it’s not for everyone.

Garnish with the 2 blackberries skewered and a lemon wheel on the rim.

Add cranberry juice, lemon juice, vodka, orange liqueur and simple syrup in a highball glass, fill with ice and stir gently.

In a mint julep cup or heavy bottom glass, gently muddle mint and simple syrup.

Your local grocer will likely be wiped out by other amateur mixologists.

KENTUCKY DERBY MINT JULEP RECIPE OFFICIAL PRO

And for one final pro tip - got get your mint NOW. But we tried our best with the twists on the classic cocktail, below. The Classic Mint Julep recipe on the Kentucky Derby website calls for the essential oils from the mint to be rubbed inside the glass muddling the mint is an important step.įor all the hype, the Mint Julep isn’t a complicated cocktail.

And from experience, we can tell you that using crushed ice is one of the most important parts of the quality of the drink. In its simplest traditional form, a Mint Julep is made with fresh mint, bourbon (not whisky), simple syrup, and shaved or crushed ice. Even Mental Floss - our go-to for things like this - came up relatively empty on any real fascinating history between the drink and the racetrack (although winning a silver julep cup at a state fair would’ve been pretty awesome). There’s no real romantic origin story of why the drink has become synonymous with the Kentucky Derby - the Mint Julep was served there and it gained popularity as the drink. Nearly 120,000 are expected to be served over the weekend, requiring 1,000 pounds of freshly harvested mint. The Mint Julep has been the beverage of the Kentucky Derby since 1938. It’s a light and refreshing drink that’s perfect for warmer weather that takes inspiration from a cosmo, and has a light pink color. This year, we’re also adding the Oaks Lily recipe if you prefer a vodka drink to a bourbon drink.