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Bourbon is the star of some of the world’s oldest classic cocktails – and one of its newest cult favourite spirits. Alicia Miller charts bourbon’s mixology history in four iconic pours
Mint Julep 1700-1800s
In America’s southern states, people self-medicated with alcoholic pours as far back as the 18th century, when stomach-soothing ‘juleps’ (derived from the Arabic word
julab) featured alcohol steeped with mint. Given that bourbon itself didn’t emerge much earlier – and production only accelerated decades later with increased maize plantings and barrel-based transport – early renditions would have been made with rye.
A history of Bourbon in four cocktails
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