The Creole Julep
Created by Maksym Pazuniak, Rambla/Cure, New Orleans
Thu, Jul 16, 2009 (midnight)
The 2009 Official Cocktail of Tales of the Cocktail was served up amid a gentle, passing Louisiana rainstorm last Wednesday as founder Ann Tuennerman kicked off the event outside New Orleans’ Monteleone Hotel.
Ingredients:
2.25 oz. Cruzan Single Barrel Estate Rum
0.5 oz. Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb
0.25 oz. Captain Morgan 100 rum
2 dashes each, Fee Brothers peach and Angostura bitters
8-10 mint leaves
1 Demerara sugar cube
Method:
Muddle sugar, Rhum Clement and bitters in a 10-ounce tall glass. Add mint and press. Add cracked ice, then Cruzan and Captain Morgan; stir. Garnish with a mint sprig.
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