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Highball · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 3/5

Brandy Mint Julep

Applegreen explicitly keeps the brandy branch alive within the same ornate mint-julep service.

mint · sweet · refreshing · stone_fruit · summer · refreshing · casual

Served in Large thin glass. Ice: Fine ice.

Family

Variants (2)

Applegreen's Bar Book by John Applegreen (1904, p.47) — Applegreen 1904

1 jiggerbrandy — brandybase
1 wholeSugar cube — sugar lumpbase
1 pieceOrange — orange slicegarnish
1 piecepineapple — pineapple slicegarnish
strawberry — strawberriesgarnish
ice — fine iceother
6 sprigmint — fresh mintother
  1. Prepare as for the whiskey mint julep, substituting brandy for whiskey.
  2. Serve well iced with fruit and mint.

Garnish: Orange, pineapple, strawberries, and mint

Ice: Fine ice

Nose
Mint and orchard-fruit brandy notes rise through the crushed ice.
Palate
This keeps the older brandy-julep line visible inside a period when whiskey was becoming more dominant in popular memory.
Finish
The finish is cool, sweetly minty, and fruity.
Summary
A brandy branch of the ornate late julep tradition.

Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'Em by Stanley Clisby Arthur (1938, p.32)

1 ponyBourbon whiskey — Bourbon whiskeybase
1 ponyPeach brandy — Peach brandybase
1 tsppowdered sugar — Powdered sugarbase
crushed ice — Crushed iceother
mint — Mint leavesother
  1. Prepare as for the earlier juleps, using plenty of crushed ice and frappéing with the long-handled spoon.

Ice: Crushed ice

See also: Whiskey Mint Julep, Old Southern Mint Julep