AaronFW wrote:
So... how'd it go? Was it as great as you expected? What did Deb think?
This was, as I may have mentioned somewhere, the cocktail that first sparked my interest in cocktails. In the middle of one lazy-ish weekend day, some three or four years ago, I suddenly said, "I fancy a mint julep!". I had no idea what one was, so of course I had to go and look it up. We didn't have the right glasses - at that time, we didn't have any glasses really appropriate for most cocktails, and, in looking up the one thing, I got distracted and found hundreds of other cocktails that attracted my attention.
So this, on Friday evening, was our first ever mint julep! Hence the nervousness. What if we really didn't like them? I'd bought the (reasonably expensive) julep cups by then, and, well, you know ...
To our relief, we both loved them. We loved the whole drama of them. Having to put the shaker in the fridge at the start of the day, having to put the cups in the freezer the day before, having to crush a load of ice in my rather slow, hand ice crusher thingie (which, of course, goes by the name of Wesley

) ...
And they look so good. We were able to use fresh, young mint picked straight from the garden. I used Maker's Mark Bourbon (other makes are available), 2:1 sugar syrup, loads of fresh, young mint leaves (no stems) and Angostura Bitters.
What do you think of these?
Very nice presentation.