Georgia Mint Julep

Your rating for Georgia Mint Julep:

Your rating has been registered. Thank you!

Georgia Mint Julep image

Serve in

Collins glass...
12 fresh Mint leaves
2½ fl oz Bourbon whiskey
1 fl oz Original Peachtree Liqueur
⅛ fl oz Giffard Sugar Cane Syrup (Sirop Sucre de Canne)
3 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
  • Display recipe in:

How to make:

Lightly MUDDLE (only to bruise) mint in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and strain into chilled glass half filled with crushed ice. CHURN (stir) the drink using a bar spoon. Top up the glass with more crushed ice and churn again. Continue adding crushed ice and churning until the drink meets the rim of the glass. Serve with two long straws.

Garnish:

Mint sprig

Comment:

Bourbon, peach and mint are flavours that combine harmoniously.

About:

This classic was originally made with peach brandy in place of peach liqueur. It is also sometimes made with apricot brandy.

Nutrition:

285 calories

Buy ingredients

Buy direct from The Whisky Exchange

This ingredient is not currently available for purchase through The Whisky Exchange
Peach Schnapps liqueur
This ingredient is not currently available for purchase through The Whisky Exchange
Sugar syrup (2:1)
£11.25
Makes this drink 33.33 times

Approximately £0.00 per cocktail *

* price per cocktail is an estimate based on the cost of making one cocktail with the above selected ingredients.

Previous Cocktail Previous Cocktail

Previous Cocktail

Fruit Sour
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass.

Next Cocktail Next Cocktail

Next Cocktail

Old Gran's Punch
STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass.

Cocktail shakers & how to shake a cocktail

Cocktail shakers & how to shake a cocktail

Shaking not only mixes a drink, it also chills, dilutes and aerates it. Along with stirring shaking is the most common technique employed to mix cocktails.

How to strain a cocktail

How to strain a cocktail

When straining a shaken drink, a Hawthorn strainer tends to be used, but when straining a stirred drink it is traditional to use a Julep strainer. Both designs of strainer allow...

Measuring cocktail ingredients

Measuring cocktail ingredients

Balancing each ingredient within a cocktail is key to making a great drink. Therefore the accuracy with which ingredients are measured is critical to the finished cocktail.

Apricot (brandy) liqueurs

Apricot (brandy) liqueurs

Apricot brandy is a common term for the most popular style of apricot liqueurs. This is a confusing as most of these liqueurs are actually made by macerating cherries in neutral...

Liqueurs & cordials

Liqueurs & cordials

Liqueurs and alcoholic cordials are sweetened alcoholic drinks made by mixing or redistilling spirits with flavourings and colourings. Within the EEC a ‘liqueur’ must have an...

Brandy

Brandy

Brandy is distilled from fermented fruit (not grain). The name brandy comes from northern Europe, where ‘brand’ means to burn, and is a reference to the heat used in...

×
  • Welcome to
  • Receive updates packed with drinks, bars and cocktails content
  • Please confirm you are over 21 years old and enter your email
  • No thanks, continue to diffordsguide.com
CSS revision c328570