You don’t need to be at Churchill Downs to appreciate the
sweet taste of an appropriate mint julep, and you don’t need to taste a julep
to toast the running of the roses. Regardless of whether you’re going for
exemplary tastes or need to stir up your home bar alternatives, these are the
plans your Derby Day party needs.
Woodford Reserve Mint Julep
Ingredients
2 oz Woodford Reserve
1 oz water
4 sprigs of crisp mint
1 tsp sugar
Squashed ice
Instructions
In a copper julep cup rub 2 bits of new mint around the cup to communicate the oils. Include Woodford Reserve, at that point the water and sugar and mix with a bar spoon. Add squashed ice to the top at that point decorate with sprigs of mint.
Kentucky Gambler Punch
Ingredients
1 jug of Woodford Reserve
2 liters of crisp fermented tea
.5 cup sugar
15 lemons
15 sprigs of mint
1 enormous punch bowl
Instructions
To start with, strip the lemons
(maintaining a strategic distance from however much of the substance as could
reasonably be expected). Spot the strips into the punch bowl with the sugar.
Pick the leaves of 10 sprigs of mint and spot into the punch bowl with the
lemon strip. Mix tea straightforwardly into punch bowl with lemon strip, sugar,
mint and lemon squeeze and blend well. Juice the stripped lemon into the punch
bowl. Permit blend to cool at that point include ice and whiskey. Serve
decorated with mint.
A Rose for Emily
Ingredients
.25 oz lemon
juice
.75 oz Plum
Cordial
.25 oz
Allspice Dram
.5 oz Cynar
1.5 oz Four
Roses Yellow Label
Atomized
salt water and palatable blossom
Instructions
Assemble all
fixings in a shaker tin, give a hard 12 shakes, twofold strain of squashed ice
in a julep tin. Enhancement with 2 spritzes of salt water.
Cruzan Hats off Julep
Ingredients
2 oz Cruzan
Estate Diamond Dark Rum
.5 oz
turbinado syrup*
Squeeze new
mint leaves
3
blackberries
Ice, Crushed
Instructions
Jumble mint
and berries in a julep cup. Include rum and turbinado syrup and load up with
squashed ice. Take a bunch of mint and wash with water, at that point sprinkle
mint with powdered sugar and topping with 3 skewered blackberries.
*Turbinado
Syrup — Combine 8 sections high temp water and 8 sections turbinado sugar. Mix
until sugar is broken down. Refrigerate for as long as 30 days.
Brown Derby
Ingredients
2 oz Bulleit
Rye
1 oz
grapefruit juice
.5 oz nectar
syrup
Instructions
Shake it up and fill a martini glass, decorating with pink peppercorns.
Cucumber Julep
Ingredients
1.5 oz of
Reyka Vodka
2 oz Fresh
pressed cucumber juice
.5 oz lime
juice
.5 oz
straightforward syrup
6-8 mint
leaves
Squashed ice
Instructions
Mix fixings.
Trimming with mint sprig and cucumber cut.
The Steeplechase
Ingredients
2 oz flor de
caña rum
2 oz vanilla
lemonade*
1 oz smoked
honey**
4 huge
leaves of basil
Instructions
In an
enormous glass, join rum, lemonade, nectar syrup, and basil. Top with ice and
rapidly obfuscate to join. Fill highball and present with a lemon.
*Vanilla
lemonade — Cut 6 lemons into equal parts and put in medium bowl. Include .5 cup
sugar and 1 vanilla case + seeds. Top with high temp water and permit to douse.
At the point when water has cooled yet is still warm to the touch, press out
lemons and dispose of strips. Mix and chill.
Smoked
nectar syrup — Combine 1 cup nectar and 1 cup water in a huge bowl. Spread
firmly with plastic and smoke utilizing conclusive evidence. Permit to inject
for 20 minutes. Chill and save.
Sweet
Iced Tea
Ingredients
3 Quarts water; plus
or minus
2 cups sugar
or proportional sum substitute
4 Quart size
tea packs
Instructions
Carry water
to a moving bubble, include sugar. (Mix to break up) Add 4 tea packs. Mix. Let
sit 20 minutes. Empty up into gallon container or holder. Fill the rest with
cool water. Enhancement with lemon or crisp mint. Serve in silver julep cup.
Angry Orchard Honey Crisp
Ingredients
6 oz. Furious
Orchard® Unfiltered Hard Cider
1 oz. Clover and
Wildflower Honey
1.5 oz. Ruby Red
Grapefruit Juice
2 Sprigs
Rosemary
.5 Wheel Ruby
Red Grapefruit
1 oz Vodka or
Gin (discretionary)
Instructions
In a
blending glass include grapefruit juice and crude nectar. At that point mix to
consolidate nectar. Next, strip one sprig Rosemary into blending glass. Spread
with ice and shake. At long last, include Angry Orchard® Unfiltered Hard Cider.
Strain over crisp ice. Trimming with rosemary sprig and half grapefruit wheel.
Angry
Frosé Cider
Ingredients
5 oz. Irate
Orchard Rosé Cider
1 oz. White
Rum
.75 oz. Lime
Juice
2.5 TBSP
White Sugar
4
Strawberries
2 Cups Ice
Instructions
Add all
fixings to a blender and mix until smooth. Serve in a stones glass and topping
with strawberry.