The Mint Julep | Kentucky Life | KET
Mint juleps are as much a part of the Derby tradition as beautiful horses, big hats, and celebrities. Each year almost 120,000 mint juleps are served during the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby weekend at Churchill Downs.
The history of this Southern cocktail of bourbon, mint, sugar, and water goes back to the 1700s. Louisville bourbon historian Michael Veach says the mint julep was used back then as a medicinal drink.
Joy Perrine, a bartending legend in the Derby City and co-author of The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book, shows us the proper way to make a mint julep—use spearmint, not peppermint—and she offers advice on which type of bourbon to use.
Derby tradition requires the governor to toast the winner with a silver mint julep cup. Wakefield-Scearce Galleries in Shelbyville handcrafts the sterling and pewter mint julep cups. These elegant creations, with their decorative hand-beading, take their inspiration from the originals made in Kentucky around 1795.
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Dallas-based distillery to open first tasting room in downtown SA
Devils River Whiskey will be housed in the historic Burns Building on Houston Street.
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Old Forester Distilling Co. Grand Opening
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On June 14, 2018, Old Forester Distilling Co. will open a brand new bourbon and tourism experience in the heart of Downtown Louisville.
Our return to Louisville’s historic Whiskey Row harkens back to the heritage and authenticity of America’s First Bottled Bourbon™ in this state-of-the-art facility that celebrates Old Forester Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky and the role of bourbon in Louisville’s history.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Old Forester Distillery at 119 West Main Street in Louisville. The distillery and bourbon experience will be a world-class distilling operation and visitor’s destination showcasing the craftsmanship of Old Forester.
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Olivia Ripy: The Bourbon Trail
Olivia Ripy, formerly in charge of the visitor center at Wild Turkey and granddaughter of the distillery's founder T. B. Ripy, discusses the benefits of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail for the state and for the historic bourbon towns.
This interview is from the Kentucky Bourbon Tales Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries. Watch the full interview:
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Nine people were indicted Tuesday on charges of spiriting away what Kentucky authorities say was more bourbon whiskey than one person could drink in a lifetime. (April 21)
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Boulder Lifestyle Magazine video recap of Derby Days 2017, held at the historic Highland City Club in downtown Boulder, Colorado, May 6, 2017.
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Gordon Seeking First Win at Kentucky Speedway
SPARTA, Ky. -- Kentucky Speedway, Speedway Motorsports Inc., Kentucky Distillers Association (KDA) and four prominent Kentucky distillers presented a special thank you today to NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Jeff Gordon, who is competing in his final full-time season. Four Roses, Jim Beam, Michters and Wild Turkey each gave the four-time Sprint Cup Series champion 24 bottles with each bottle featuring a special one-of-a-kind autographed label. Kentucky is internationally known for its bourbon whiskey producing 95 percent of the worlds supply. KDA gave Gordon a trunk full of glassware, barware and other gifts to enjoy his new collection and to remember his time in Kentucky, the one, true and authentic home for bourbon. The Master Distillers from each distiller were in attendance today. Jimmy Russell, Wild Turkey Bourbon, joined the distillery in 1954 and is currently the director of the Kentucky Distillery Association. Jim Rutledge, Four Roses Bourbon, has been the Master Distiller since 1995 and is a member of the inaugural class of the Bourbon Hall of Fame. Fred Noe, Jim Beam, the seventh generation of the first family of distillers in 2007 and Willie Pratt of Michters Whiskey who has more than 40 years of experience in the whiskey industry. Jeff Gordon is a legend in the racing world, so its only appropriate that our living Bourbon legends are here today to congratulate him on an outstanding career, KDA President Eric Gregory said. Its truly an honor to toast Mr. Gordon as he undertakes one last round at Kentucky Speedway. We hope he savors these special bottlings just as fans around the globe have cherished his thrilling races. Gordon will be bidding for his first Sprint Cup Series Kentucky Speedway victory, something he has been vocal about achieving. If Gordon wins at Kentucky, he will be the first driver to win at every track on the current Sprint Cup Series schedule. He has finished in the top ten in each of the first four Quaker State 400 presented by Advance Auto Parts races. Knowing Jeff, we wanted to provide him with a gift he can share with many of the people who have touched his career, said Mark Simendinger, Kentucky Speedway General Manager. We are honored that he has competed here and hope these bottles of Kentuckys very best bourbon bring him much happiness and fond memories of the Commonwealth.
End of the Civil War Book, Fair Part 1: A Finger in Lincoln’s Brain...
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A Finger in Lincoln’s Brain: What Modern Science Reveals about Lincoln, His Assassination, and Its Aftermath
E. Lawrence Abel sheds light on the details surrounding the death of Abraham Lincoln, including John Wilkes Booth's illness, the alleged medical treatment the wounded President received, and the significance of his funeral for the American public.
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Bourbon whiskey
Bourbon whiskey is a type of American whiskey: a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn. The name is ultimately derived from the French Bourbon dynasty, although it is disputed whether the namesake Kentucky county or New Orleans street inspired the whiskey's name. Bourbon has been distilled since the 18th century. The name Bourbon was not applied until the 1820s, and the Kentucky etymology was not advanced until the 1870s. While the liquor may be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated with the American South in general, and Kentucky in particular.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, record company executive, humanitarian, and jazz trumpeter. His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991.
In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, their The Eyes of Love for the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, Jones was the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, as he was also nominated for his work on the film In Cold Blood (1967). In 1971, Jones was the first African American to be named as the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. In 1995 he was the first African American to receive the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the African American who has been nominated for the most Oscars; each has received seven nominations.
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Lithium Battery Innovator to Locate Facilities on UK's CAER Campus
Lithium-ion battery manufacturer NOHMs Technologies Inc. will locate a state-of-the-art research, manufacturing and product development facility at the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research campus in Lexington.
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Dragnet: Big Gangster Part 1 / Big Gangster Part 2 / Big Book
Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Dragnet debuted inauspiciously. The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program's format and eventually became comfortable with their characters (Friday was originally portrayed as more brash and forceful than his later usually relaxed demeanor). Gradually, Friday's deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by John Dunning as a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring. (Dunning, 210) Friday's first partner was Sergeant Ben Romero, portrayed by Barton Yarborough, a longtime radio actor. After Yarborough's death in 1951 (and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode The Big Sorrow), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs (December 27, 1951 - April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor), played by Barney Phillips; Officer Bill Lockwood (Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952 - May 8, 1952), played by Martin Milner (with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode The Big Donation); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis (1952), then Ben Alexander (September 21, 1952-1959). Raymond Burr was on board to play the Chief of Detectives. When Dragnet hit its stride, it became one of radio's top-rated shows.
Webb insisted on realism in every aspect of the show. The dialogue was clipped, understated and sparse, influenced by the hardboiled school of crime fiction. Scripts were fast moving but didn't seem rushed. Every aspect of police work was chronicled, step by step: From patrols and paperwork, to crime scene investigation, lab work and questioning witnesses or suspects. The detectives' personal lives were mentioned but rarely took center stage. (Friday was a bachelor who lived with his mother; Romero, a Mexican-American from Texas, was an ever fretful husband and father.) Underplaying is still acting, Webb told Time. We try to make it as real as a guy pouring a cup of coffee. (Dunning, 209) Los Angeles police chiefs C.B. Horrall, William A. Worton, and (later) William H. Parker were credited as consultants, and many police officers were fans.
Most of the later episodes were entitled The Big _____, where the key word denoted a person or thing in the plot. In numerous episodes, this would the principal suspect, victim, or physical target of the crime, but in others was often a seemingly inconsequential detail eventually revealed to be key evidence in solving the crime. For example, in The Big Streetcar the background noise of a passing streetcar helps to establish the location of a phone booth used by the suspect.
Throughout the series' radio years, one can find interesting glimpses of pre-renewal Downtown L.A., still full of working class residents and the cheap bars, cafes, hotels and boarding houses which served them. At the climax of the early episode James Vickers, the chase leads to the Subway Terminal Building, where the robber flees into one of the tunnels only to be killed by an oncoming train. Meanwhile, by contrast, in other episodes set in outlying areas, it is clear that the locations in question are far less built up than they are today. Today, the Imperial Highway, extending 40 miles east from El Segundo to Anaheim, is a heavily used boulevard lined almost entirely with low-rise commercial development. In an early Dragnet episode scenes along the Highway, at the road to San Pedro, clearly indicate that it still retained much the character of a country highway at that time.