Mint Julep

The mint julep is an alcoholic cocktail of mint, bourbon, sugar or sugar syrup and crushed ice ( crushed ice ). Traditionally, it is served in a silver or pewter cup, garnished with a mint stems and drunk through a short straw.

Origin

The cocktail comes from the American South, was then probably the end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century by Senator Henry Clay to Washington, DC and introduced into the Northern states of the U.S. and can now be found in bars around the world.

The term is composed from the English word for mint mint julep and, JuLab derived from the Persian word for rose water.

Known Mint Juleps

The Mint Julep is since 1938 the official beverage of the Kentucky Derby, more than 80,000 juleps are served there during an event.

Is also used in film and literature of the cocktail mentioned several times, for example in Margaret Mitchell's Southern epic Gone with the Wind or in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's social criticism novel The Great Gatsby.

In the film Goldfinger, the beverage is touted by the title character: "Mint Julep? My house drink, very tasty. ". In Billy Wilder film comedy One, two, three, says James Cagney as MacNamara about the city of Atlanta, "This is Siberia with Mint Juleps ." And in the movie Thank You for Smoking, he is the Captain (Robert Duvall ) even enough to rest.

One Mint Julep is the title of a song by Rudolph Toombs from 1952, whose interpretation of Ray Charles in 1961 at No. 1 on the charts.