In honor of National Bourbon Heritage Month, we're celebrating classic bourbon cocktails. Meet the Old Fashioned, a delicious cocktail that's so much more than the sum of its parts.
Jon Smiley
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The bourbon-based mint julep was the drink of choice in the South in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
I’m sure most of us have heard of the mint julep, a bourbon-based cocktail associated with the American South and the Kentucky Derby. During the Civil War and up until 1920s, the mint julep was the drink of choice and Tom Bullock made one of the best around.
Born in 1872, Bullock was the son of a former slave who fought for the Union. He got his start as a bellboy at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Ky. Alongside James E. Pepper, he popularized the Old-Fashioned and eventually honed his bartending skills.