The passage supports conditional service design and historical base-spirit variation. It does not explicitly establish the earlier record's gentle-muddling, frost or rapid-delivery claims; these require separate locators if retained elsewhere. No practical trial was conducted.
The recipe history also records earlier wine, brandy, genever, and rum variants before the modern bourbon-centered form.
Meehan recommends higher-proof bourbon, crushed or pebble ice, a chilled julep cup and a mint bouquet, connecting ice form with dilution and chilling; his recipe muddles mint with syrup, adds bourbon, swizzles with pebble ice and tops with more ice.
PDF sheet 462
PDF sheet 460
Whisk(e)y Recipes — Mint Julep
October 1 fresh audit against the sequential 710-sheet text and individual-visual review. Canonical Source, Literature Note and existing relations retained. The passage supports conditional service design and historical base-spirit variation. It does not explicitly establish the earlier record's gentle-muddling, frost or rapid-delivery claims; these require separate locators if retained elsewhere. No practical trial was conducted.
Evidence retained from the complete 710-sheet textual and visual review of Meehan's Bartender Manual.
Evidence
Meehan recommends higher-proof bourbon, crushed or pebble ice, a chilled julep cup and a mint bouquet, connecting ice form with dilution and chilling; his recipe muddles mint with syrup, adds bourbon, swizzles with pebble ice and tops with more ice.
Location and context
Source section: Whisk(e)y Recipes — Mint Julep
Locator: PDF sheets 460–462
The recipe history also records earlier wine, brandy, genever, and rum variants before the modern bourbon-centered form.
Annotation
The passage supports conditional service design and historical base-spirit variation. It does not explicitly establish the earlier record's gentle-muddling, frost or rapid-delivery claims; these require separate locators if retained elsewhere. No practical trial was conducted.