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Kentucky Maid

Kentucky Maid

Category: SmashMood: Spring

Featured in Regarding Cocktails (2016)

Lowball

Ingredients

  • 3 thin cucumber slices
  • 8 - 12 mint leaves
  • 30ml lime juice
  • 22.5ml simple syrup
  • 60ml bourbon
No. of Servings:
1

Garnish

Cucumber slice and mint sprig

Instructions

  1. Add all ingredients except for the bourbon into a cocktail shaker.

  2. Muddle the ingredients.

  3. Add bourbon.

  4. Add ice, and shake until chilled.

  5. Double strain into a rocks glass with ice.

  6. Garnish with a mint sprig and a cucumber slice.

Hints

  1. When muddling, try to avoid bruising the mint to prevent bitter flavors.

  2. Some bartenders prefer adding the mint leaves along with the spirit to avoid bruising it. The shaking will extract the flavor even if it hasn't been muddled.

  3. The “Maid” cocktail family was created to work with any spirit.

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Trivia

  1. Created by Sam Ross in 2005 while working at Milk & Honey in New York City.

  2. The Kentucky Maid evolved from the London Maid, which Ross created the year prior.

Tags

RefreshingEasy to drinkEasyModern classic2000sSmashCucumberMintLime juiceSimple syrupWhisk(e)yBourbon

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