#$2500 MINT JULEP RECIPE PLUS#

Garnish with a bundle of baby’s breath and mint. Churn ingredients with a bar spoon distributing the flavor. Add remaining ingredients and top with crushed ice. Rub mint around the julep cup to release the essential oils. Garnish: Baby’s breath, mint, and dehydrated edible blue cornflowers ¼ oz Woodford Reserve Mint Julep Simple Syrup Even if you can’t afford one of the 90 $1,000 julep cups (or one of the 15 gold-plated sterling silver $2,500 cups), you can mix the recipe to sip at home while watching the race.ġ½ oz Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon

#$2500 MINT JULEP RECIPE PLUS#

The Kentucky and English flavors Morris refers to include bourbon, of course, plus Pimm’s No. It is a great tasting combination of the flavors of Kentucky and England in one drink, in one cup.” Therefore this year’s julep includes the classic flavors of England among its ingredients. I find this year’s concept interesting because it reaches back in time to when Meriwether Lewis Clark created the Kentucky Derby using the Epsom Derby as his inspiration. “Now in its 12th year the Woodford Reserve $1000 Mint Julep program continues to come up with creative ways to raise money for equine associated charities.

How many sporting events have an official cocktail?īrown-Forman’s master distiller, Chris Morris summed up the history of the $1,000 juleps in answer to an email query: Surely there’s a Guinness record in there somewhere. They will require 10,000 bottles of premixed Old Forester Mint Julep Ready-to-Serve Cocktail, 100 pounds of just-harvested mint, and 6,000 pounds of shaved ice. Go to for details.)Īccording to the official web site for the race, 120,000 juleps will be served on Oaks and Derby days. (Not served at the track, but buyers are given a special recipe. A jeweler-designed julep cup featuring gold plating is the vessel for the latter. The former is served in the familiar, colorfully-decorated julep glasses. Its sister bourbon, Woodford Reserve, is both the Official Bourbon of the Kentucky Derby and the whiskey used in $1,000 mint juleps used as fundraisers this year for the Kentucky Derby Museum. Old Forester is used in the mint juleps served at the track. The Twin Spires of historic Churchill Downs and the 64-foot tall Old Forester bourbon bottle (once a water tank) hovering over the headquarters of Brown-Forman Corporation, both preside over the Kentucky Derby. On the first Saturday in May, two distinctive fixtures of Louisville’s skyline converge for America’s oldest continuously held sporting event.

$2500 mint julep recipe