The essential mint julep is made with bourbon and mint syrup poured ov — Mint julep

"rose, smiling faintly, and went to the table. "Open the whiskey, ," she ordered, "and Ill make you a mint julep. Then you wont seem so stupid to yourself. . . . Look at the mint!"

"... I arose early in the morning and made him a Mint Julep, thinking it would refresh him after the restlessness of the hot night. ... Holding up the cooling beverage, I said to him: "Well, Professor, I have been entertaining you for two weeks on our simple fare; I could do no better, but I should have been glad had it been in my power to have treated you in the old Virginia style. Still, I cannot let you leave Virginia without taking a taste of the old lady, as she was known in ante-bellum days."

"... There are many varieties, such as those composed of , , &c.; but the ingredients of the real mint julep are as follows. I learned how to make them, and succeeded pretty well. Put into a tumbler about a dozen of the tender sprigs of mint, upon them put a spoonful of white sugar, and equal proportions of and , so as to fill it up one-third, or perhaps a little less. Then take rasped or pounded ice, and fill up the tumbler. Epicures rub the lips of the tumbler with a piece of fresh , and the tumbler itself is very often incrusted outside with stalactites of ice. As the ice cools, you drink. ..."

"figures heavily in the experience; the mint julep has become the traditional drink of the and the most celebrated bourbon-based in the world. ... The mint julep had been served at from the beginning, but were not available in the now-famous souvenir glasses until the late 1930s."