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seriously! pete's candy store in brooklyn, ny. when?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Hold your horses. Mint juleps will be made at the appropriate day/time, at my house, May 1st.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought Woodford Reserve and Derby glasses and everything, last week.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I was tempted to get Mint Julep mix but that got bad reviews.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, i'll be in a field watching the pixies on may 1st.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i still have my commemorative julep glass from the derby last year!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

lauren i am fast learning to associate you with exotic refreshments.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

if I was in a field on May 1st, it'd be watching drunk dudes, topless sunburned chicks, and horses.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

lauren i am fast learning to associate you with exotic refreshments.

as it should be.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

lauren btw I now work across the street from your favorite downtown burlesque drinking establishment.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

unfortunately, i can't really narrow it down from that description.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I want mint juleps I do.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think i've ever had one.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

think "feline parlour."

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway I'd be up for a julep before the 1st, but I will let all y'all know about Derby party plans at the appropriate time.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if I'll make it up to Churchill Downs this year either, but come May 1st I will be drunkenly and sunburnedly cheering the ponies on from my homies backyard, mint julep in hand. I wish everyday was Derby Day, cuz got-dang thems is some good bevridgis.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, hstencil. oh dear. did i tell you the story about the the publicist and the champagne and the russian manager/procurer?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

nick, you didn't make it last year, and we came all that way. New job prevents me from making it this year, although last week's sojourn in the 502 was pleasant.

x-post no lauren, tell me about it!

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never had one, but I have this idea in my head of how one might taste. Seems like a mint julep would be nice with this sudden warm weather...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

no lauren, tell me about it!

in the fullness, all will be revealed.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

stockholm cindy - I have my glass from the Derby last year too.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Also have an old engraved pewter cup with my initials (it's big in my family, this was a gift from Grandma).

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

so... any ideas for when this should actually take place?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I fancy a mint julep and am free most nights, plus I have new clothes.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 19 April 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

sometime this weekend :)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 April 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.skinnymcgee.com/images/mint-cover.gif

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 April 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a good night for Pete's, Lauren? I'm burning out on spending weekend nights at crowded bars but I'm willing to do so if I must.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete's is sometimes relatively uncrowded on weekend nights. I took my mom there on a Friday not long ago.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been there. I had some weird drink with the word Diablo in it I think.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it made out of Alphabety Spaghetti?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

my girlfriend's new band is playing there sometime next month.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 April 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

stay out of my Spaghettios, TRACER HAND

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, i've had the diablo. i think it has tequila in it, but that's all i remember. what about thursday night? maybe on the earlier side, so we can sit in the garden if it's nice?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i went there once too!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Early Thurs. night is fine for me, and I think Tim H. might also be in town!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i think stevem should be here, too.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I played a gig at Pete's once; great place. I'd like to FAMJ but Jersey is kinda far.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm there!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

if i say that it's a good idea to try everything on the house specialty drinks list, don't listen.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait! Sooner, not later

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got plans for Thursday, dammit.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm called Pete, and I'll be in town possibly dragging Hopko by the nose. I'm also in town tomorrow afternoon and at a loose end, (jet lag a gogo)

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i might be around for drinks at chez hstencil on may 1st.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

you better be. Also, bring money for gambling and an appetite for cornbread, coleslaw, derby pie, etc.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I have an article aboutt derby parties, I will send you a copy.

I have no money for gambling as I have only $30 and that has to pay for a train ticket and the WFMU record fair.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

how bout now? is pete's candy store open yet?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

that would be nice, wouldn't it?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Key to a good julep is doing the simple syrup right: cook it up, add mint leaves while it's cooling, and refrigerate it overnight. Makes all the difference.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if I trust beverage advice from someone identified with spittle and warm cup of spit.

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, I always thought it was best to mash up the mint leaves mortar-and-pestle style.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

that's what i was always told. this boiling the leaves business sounds a bit unorthodox.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course I was always better at drinking a julep than making one, so...

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

(this julep thing does have bouze in, doesn't it?)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

whisky

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

no, steve. i'm getting everyone to go out to brooklyn for a temperance meeting.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

bourbon. the cheaper, the better.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

jim dickel. They don't sell it up north though, I don't think.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

george dickel? they do.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, dickel - tennessee sippin' whiskey.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops! SC you're right.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

So - when abouts on Thursday ? Is Pete's still on? I'm gonna try for Sunday's FAP, too. And that party Friday sounds great.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i can do thursday!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Wednesday has the pub quiz I note, where massive brain of ILXor's could win bouze.

(I didn't know they had pub quizes in the states).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i declare juleps at 9pm on thursday night at pete's candy store.

(we do, p. they're just not very common.)

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i should be able to manage thursday night drinking - juleping even

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Flight 151 in Manhattan has a trivia night on Thursdays.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

damn, oh well.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

what are these "plans" that you speak of, h? surely you can come to some sort of compromise.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I should be able to make it. I think quiz nite is a good idea too.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

plans are the tune in show thingy at the kitchen. Don't think I could make or afford both.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

we could totally rule quiz night tho. I was on my college and high school teams, y'know.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, barry's playing at that. it's 7-10, right? which conceivably leaves julep time...

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, mint juleps at Coachella sounds like a fine idea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

sweet! i gotta go to the kitchen first for this performance thing, and then after that i'll head over for some mint julep action (around 10-ish i'm guessing)

― geeta, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

10-ish anyone?

(sorry.)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll probably be there earlier than 10, but i doubt that arriving later is going to be an issue.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm heading straight for Manhattan from the airport and should be there around 8...maybe i should just head straight for Brooklyn?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

we could totally rule quiz night tho. I was on my college and high school teams, y'know.

J, were you on KET?

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

High Q, on WAVE, starring the supremely ridiculous Chuck Castille.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe i should just head straight for Brooklyn?

email me, steve. i can always meet you in manhattan and take you out there if geeta's busy.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes please. Thursday at Pete's at 9pm. This way I can meet rjg there and be drinking instead of waiting at Kelloggs and eating weird grilled cheese.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.talion.com/carter.jpg

― Dada, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

you can have a nice toasted cheese at pete's.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Great. Thursday at 9 it is.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

*returning many hours later*

Hmm, I always thought it was best to mash up the mint leaves mortar-and-pestle style.

Yeah, you can do that, but some form of mint infusion is really preferable -- it gives you a truer, more pervasive mintiness. There are various ways to do it. This recipe recommends infusing the bourbon itself, which I suppose could work, but you'd better be right about how much bourbon you need. I think infusing the syrup (as recommended here, in a variant on my suggestion above) gives you more flexibility. By the time the leaves have steeped overnight, the syrup is deliciously tangy. Mmmm. (That said, I can only drink about two of these things...)

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i started training with a mint julep at milk & honey last night. somewhat shockingly, this is the one cocktail at which they do not excel. it was too sugary and had way too much crushed ice, leading to an unpleasant wateriness. more interesting was the bee's kiss (light rum and honey stirred with a bit of fresh whipped cream), which gently eased the pain of julep disappointment.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

...way too much crushed ice, leading to an unpleasant wateriness.

You'd hate the ones at Churchill Downs, then. After sitting around in the infield all day in the hot sun, they tend to get a little watery. I think I got more of a buzz off beer at the track last year, to be honest.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, and from the pot some hippies from Ohio gave me.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

haha "dickel"

(this is an obscure dirty crossword reference ("man blos ze dickel", a hopkins masterpiece), you americans do have dirty crossword don't you?)

i'm glad juleps do have bouze in, not sure what we'll be doing tomorrow night (WAHEY, TOMORROW!!), possibly "not much" or "sleeping", but let's see, eh?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

feel free to email me for directions or whatever. try to make it out if you can!

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, dude, it looks like it's the hen do tomorrow night also, so i think we'd better be going along to that/keeping chris company :)

whole week available for bouzing anyway ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Great. Thursday at 9 it is.

FAPpers take note -- J0hn Darn1elle is doing an in-store in Williamsburg tonight!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's next week? Record fair is, right? Either way, juleps after the instore might be a good idea, Pete's is close to there.

― hstencil, Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i was just puzzling over the date. i think you're right, h.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm so confused.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's like this:

1. Mint juleps tonight at Pete's.

2. Mint juleps a week from tonight at Pete's (after J0hn's in-store).

as it turns out, I may now be able to make both.

― hstencil, Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe Thursdays until the end of summer should be deemed Mint Goat (Mountain Julep) night. I ain't got shit to do all summer but drink. Oh, and I guess my job.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 22 April 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i started training with a mint julep at milk & honey last night

Is this the invitation-only place?

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 22 April 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

it's kind of semi-private, i guess.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 April 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to be at a show tonight, so NATURALLY, I'm missing the minty fresh FAP. Completely unrelated (but kinda not) -- MtnGts are doing the in-store at my manager's brother's store. Small world.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 22 April 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

This is going to be the best Mint Julep FAP EVER!!!!!!!

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

now I can't make it.

― hstencil, Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm having a spaz attack tonight. i think i'm going to have to bow out. the good news is that i will indeed be back in time for the julep goats next week.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

they didnt have any mint, but a great time was had all the same. cool bar in what seemed like a weird place - but then it would to a guy who only arrived in the country for the first time a few hours ago and got kinda lost and afraid trying to find it. perhaps the full story will be revealed in due course......

sorry to missed you jbr

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a headache.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

and no jelly babies, because steve likes to make empty promises.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

waaaah i'm sorry i missed everyone last night. full report, please.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't sleep yet am amazingly well today, although I think I left my liver at the bar.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

no mint? weird, it's not hard to find.

― hstencil, Friday, 23 April 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

weird, and heartbreaking.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

uggh, my head.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

I am drinking my first whisky sour.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

and?

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

very, very nice.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to try a mint julep, stat.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

are you supposed to drink it really slowly?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

you can always make another

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I love whisky sours so.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

mint julep, realest of drinks

i had a good whisky and fig thing not so long ago.

― candour floss (mwah), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

does freuds do mjs? not to my recollection. i would be interested, tho

― candour floss (mwah), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

mint juleps are on the menu at AKA cafe on clinton street near my house. summers almost over though

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

whisky & fig? more, please.

I am thinking about an alcohol addiction, the challenge of balancing my perception and insight between fuzzy and expert, like a mercury tilt switch, is enticing.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

'perkily detached' you motherfucker. : )

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, info pls about whisky and figs.

milk and honey, either in poland st (lon) or on eldridge st (ny)does fantastic mint juleps. actually, fantastic everything. cocktail nirvana, complete drunken bliss.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

dear lauren,

shd I really become an 'liminal' alcoholic, continually flirting with the dialectic (haha 'dialectic') between drunk and insightful (again haha 'insightful')?

lub,
cozen.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

milk and honey do the best sour. Their New York Sour, a rye whisky sour topped off with claret.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

dear cozen,

yes.

hiccup,
lauren.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the whisky/fig -

(wurgh beanie sigel peedi twista - 'i gotta have it' just came on 1xtra! flappers n rappers)

- i had at salt on edgware rd, positions itself as a whisky emporium, bit of a twat's den really. nice drink tho, seeds and everthing.

the milk and honey system seems such a chore from afar, even if i do hear nothing but praise

(haha dialectic! diuretic maybe)

― candour floss (mwah), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the london system is more complicated than the ny one. with the latter, you just call and sound member-ish and reserve a table and that's it. the big problem, really, is cash. perfection does not come cheaply.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

dear cozen and lauren,
can we meet up for a wishkey shour shometime?
lurv, Nick

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

PS I am very drunk -- I just watched the yankees bludgeon the sox at o'connors. Pat O'Connor was there and bought us all beers!

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

o'connors is one of the all-time greatest bars. does adorable bart still work there?

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 18 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

julep time is creeping up on us...

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 2 April 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Hi dere lauren.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 2 April 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

I have gallon pots of spearmint and peppermint going buck wild... too bad I don't like bourbon.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 April 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Mail the mint juleps to me. Thanks.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 2 April 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

do you like vodka, mr. farmer? crushed mint and sugar and soda and vodka is quite tasty. no julep, of course, but then what is?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 3 April 2006 01:08 (twenty years ago)

I had dinner with my parents last night and my mother ordered a sake julep. What the

― def zep (calstars), Monday, 3 April 2006 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Heck at that rate you might as well have a mojito.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 April 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Tomorrow is the kintuck derby and I have no bourbon in my home. OH NOES

― Full Metal Slanket (Oilyrags), Friday, 1 May 2009 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

John is always saying it's like IMPOSSIBLE to make a good mint julep. Can this be true? Is it harder to fuck up than any other drink?

(I saw simple syrup for sale in the liquor section of the fancy-schmancy grocery store the other day. Seriously. Less than a pint of it made with 'pure cane sugar' for $8. There's a reason it's called SIMPLE syrup, come on people.)

― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Friday, 1 May 2009 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

it's like IMPOSSIBLE to make a good mint julep

not true

― dmr, Friday, 1 May 2009 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I reckoned! I don't get why certain drinks are treated in this way. It's not like you're making fugu here! (Tho including the crushed mint in the simple sugar itself is a good idea.)

― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Friday, 1 May 2009 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

oily, isn't there time to remedy that? i mean, you have like over 24 hours.

― tehresa, Friday, 1 May 2009 16:36 (seventeen years ago)

It takes weeks to make a new batch!

― Full Metal Slanket (Oilyrags), Friday, 1 May 2009 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

years, counting the barrel-aging.

― Full Metal Slanket (Oilyrags), Friday, 1 May 2009 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

For the thread:

3 parts to a good mint julep -

(1) High-proof bourbon, like Wild Turkey, Bulliet, or Booker's, although Booker's really isn't mixin' whiskey
(2) CRUSHED ice
(3) LOTS of mint

Make a simple syrup - 50% water, 50% sugar. Bring to a simmer, while stirring. Allow to reduce a little. Turn off the burner. Let stand

In the bottom of an empty rocks glass, or, if you have the means, a pewter julip cup, take approx 10-15 leaves of mint, and add 2 tbsps of syrup. Muddle.

Fill to top of glass with crushed ice.

Fill with bourbon.

Add sprig of mint with a good number of leaves still on it to the glass. This is VERY important, as the julip is a cocktail which relies heavily on the smell of the mint.

Enjoy, but don't plan on driving anywhere.

― Two Will Get You Three (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 1 May 2009 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I reckoned!

to be honest I could not have offered many tips. but friends of mine make good ones all the time. I think BLAM has put us all on the path up there ^^^^

― dmr, Friday, 1 May 2009 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

Add sprig of mint with a good number of leaves still on it to the glass. This is VERY important, as the julip is a cocktail which relies heavily on the smell of the mint.

I was served a fantastic one a couple weeks ago with a big bunch of mint stuck into the top and a short straw coming put through the middle so that I pretty much had my nose in the mint every time I took a sip - it was great!

― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Friday, 1 May 2009 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

I haven't been able to find fresh mint anywhere.

― Full Metal Slanket (Oilyrags), Saturday, 2 May 2009 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

we have all the fixins here in the office. 2 people brought in their own mint-syrup concoctions. we usually start mixing around 5 to get good and warmed up for the race.

― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 2 May 2009 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

Oh my god Oily all you need is a tiny flowerpot with a wee mint plant and it will grow like crazy. That shit will take over the world if left to its own devices.

― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Saturday, 2 May 2009 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

wooooo. i lost the office derby draw. but the juleps are good, so in a way we're all winners.

― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 2 May 2009 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

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