Well, yu'all. Scotch is made in old bourbon barrels and tastes real swampy to me. I was weaned locally on Early Times, Kentucky Tavern, Glenmore, and Markers Mark. Some of the new fancy and costly Woodfords , Bookers, and Bakers are nice and zingy, but way expensive. Just use a little water and ice if you don;t drink it neat.

The following is a Mint Julep recipe passed down from the finest Kentucky sources.
Printer version of this recipe

A fair Bourbon
Spearmint leaves from your yard
Sugar spun in a blender
Finely crushed ice
a sterling silver julep cup

Take three or four mint leaves and two or so tablespoons of the sugar.
Put them into the julep cup and crush them with a muddler or the end of
one your momma's pistol grip place knives. Fill the cup with the crushed ice.
Next fill the cup with bourbon and add a couple of stems of mint for garnish.
Present the julep to your friend with a nice Madeira napkin to hold it.
The cup should have frosted itself.

Return to the bar fill another cup with ice and add bourbon.
Go back to your friend who is nosedown in the mint and make a fine Derby toast.

Margaret Ann
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003
Subject: Re: French Wine to the Feast of the Steeds in Louisville

------------------------------------------
Follow-up:
From: Andrew H Auld

There are, IIRC, two, perfectly fine - and Anglican, cuz they came from Sewanee, recipes for REAL juleps, to be found on the St. Sams recipe pages....I know, I posted 'em....
SEE: Mint Juleps   AND: Mint Juleps 2
- sorry Margaret Ann, we got there afore ye....
- pax -
Andrew H. Auld; C'69
ecce quam bonum!

------
From: Sibyl Smirl

http://recipes.stsams.org/recipes/mintjuleps.html

------
From: Mimi Bennett-Aronson

Ah, but to be fair Margaret Ann's recipe will get there eventually as well.

The Swede has upgraded me AGAIN and I'm in the process of re-installing and fine tuning everything on the box. { sigh } It's not only teenage boys who want to be able to brag about their *over-clocked, over-vented, over-cooled* etc.

------
From: Mannoates

It is a real recipe, but it is also a joke about avoiding the julep.
Why would anyone at Sewanee make a julep anyway???

------
From: Andrew H Auld

Uh, because it's there?

That's not a fair question for a Sewanee alum. A party's a party. If you didn't go to Louisville, you could stay on the mountain and still behave like the proper southern gentleman, till the sun came up or you looked in a mirror.

It was rumoured that with the advent of coeds, the Mountain might find other things to do than party. Rumours only.
- ecce quam bonum! -
Andrew H. Auld