What is a julep?
Julep: Spirit, sugar and mint over a mound of crushed ice.
- Category
- Drink family
- Taste
- Cold, minty, spirit-forward.
- Strength
- Strong
- Similar to
- a smash
- Also called
- mint julep
The story
The word comes from the Persian gulab, "rose water." Juleps were medicine before they were Southern sippers. The Mint Julep has been the Kentucky Derby's official drink since 1938.