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Saturday, the 4th of May, 2024 will mark a milestone in American sport as twenty thoroughbred racehorses stampede around the track at Churchill Downs and ‘run for the roses’ at the 150th anniversary of the Kentucky Derby.
If the food and beverage symbols of the American baseball field are piping hot dogs and frosty cold beer, the equivalent icon of the Kentucky Derby is undeniably the mint julep cocktail.
Attempting to pin down exactly who mixed the first original mint julep is about as confounding and rewarding as trying to find a stone-sober adult in the infield of Churchill Downs at five pm on Derby Day.
Modern articles are little more than scattershot speculation at best, because no one was writing seriously about mixology in any surviving sources before the American Revolution of 1775. Serious writers of the time had more important subjects to cover, like overthrowing imperialist colonizers.
A vastly more interesting and tangible tale is how the mint julep first flourished in popularity and became associated with the Kentucky Derby…
*To Be Continued…
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