Tag: Mint Julep

  • The Mint Julep – Slightly Muddled

    Today marks the end of my Mint Julep week and you’ve still got a little over three hours to get ingredients if you’d like to enjoy a couple before the start of the Kentucky Derby.  What’s my verdict?  This cocktail is good, but not something I’m going to find myself craving.  Were I to attend…

  • Mint Julep – The Other Side of the Coin

    On Tuesday I showed you an example of how wonderful the creation of a Mint Julep can be.  Like most things in life where there is light there is also darkness.  Today I’d like to expose you to the Julep form of that darkness.  We all have Jeffrey Morgenthaler to thank for unearthing this YouTube…

  • Chris McMillian on the Mint Julep

    NOLA.com put together a series of videos highlighting New Orleans’ best cocktails. Many of them feature Chris McMillian from the Library Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans. This recording of Chris making a Mint Julep and reciting a beautiful piece of prose is one of my absolute favorite cocktail videos. Enjoy. If you’d like to…

  • The Mint Julep

    Not being from anywhere near the South I find it easy to say that by my way of thinking there is nothing so quintessentially Southern than the Mint Julep.  Now certainly that’s a stereotype and likely a bad one.  But let’s take a moment for a thought experiment.  Think about the words “Mint Julep”…what’s the…