When you sprinkle some green, boozy powdered sugar on top of your mint julep as a garnish, “it tastes really cool, too,” McConnell says. “It adds a sort of mysterious, herbaceous flavor to ...

The Mint Julep! The perfect, refreshing cocktail for when the sun gets a little too hot. Here are my top five recommendations ...

— Choose a bourbon you like. Mint juleps are booze-forward, so be sure to use a bourbon you actually enjoy the taste of since the mint and blackberries are more complementary flavors to the ...

The Mint Julep has been the iconic drink of the Kentucky Derby since 1939, and this recipe from Jim Meehan allows you to make a perfect one at home.

At Churchill Downs, they pour the bottled Old Forester Mint Julep Ready-to-Serve Cocktail which makes sense when you are serving 120,000 Mint Juleps over a two-day weekend.

Make the bourbon-tea julep . Combine bourbon and tea bags in a 1-quart mason jar. Let steep 15 minutes. Discard tea bags (or strain mixture, if using loose tea), and return infused bourbon to jar.

The mint is there too, so it’s like a mint milk chocolate julep — that’s amazing. The sweetness is even-keeled at about a 7/10, but this is the most unique of them all.

Nearly 120,000 mint juleps are served over the two-day period at Churchill Downs, according to the racetrack, an amount that requires over 10,000 bottles of bourbon, 1,000 pounds of freshly ...

A mint julep photographed at Green Goddess in 2009l. (The NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive) My mint (spearmint, chocolate and lemon mint) did extremely well. My friend, Stan Dry, is known for ...

How the mint julep became an iconic Kentucky Derby cocktail and the official recipe to make it at home. Kentucky is known for both bourbon and horse racing, which go hand in hand.