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New Day Cafe: It's Bartender Appreciation Day! [1]
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Date: 2022-12-02
(h/t bsegel)
Fears of covid have kept many of us away from bars and restaurants since lockdown — and that’s a perfectly rational way of coping with the ongoing pandemic. But dammit, a well-mixed cocktail — or a well-poured Guinness stout — is a joy to the taste buds. So let’s try some, vicariously.
And if, perchance, you are again frequenting bars and restaurants, be especially nice to your mixologist today.
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There was a small Kentucky Derby party,,,but I’m pretty sure our hostess made her mint juleps using real bourbon whiskey….
The very first mentions of a cocktail called a 'Julep' happen in the 1700s where it is described as “a tumbler of rum and water, well sweetened, with a slip of mint in it.”. Over the years the Mint Julep Recipe has evolved and morphed into several different varieties - but in the classic cocktail books from the 1800s Brandy Mint Julep recipes ruled. [...] Post prohibition Cocktails - the Mint Julep made with whiskey became the official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby... From the YouTube description
1887 Mint Julep [8:26]
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