Typically, a Julep starts with a handful of mint leaves muddled at the bottom of a tin. But Jessica Gonzalez at Death & Co took a more minimalist approach in her Racketeer Julep, instead simply rubbing a sprig of mint around the inside of a julep cup and then tossing it out.
We were pretty skeptical this would work, but it absolutely does! It’s the perfect amount of cool, bracing mintiness to match with the malty cereal flavors of the genever and the sweet heat of the overproof dark rum (Gonzalez calls for Bols and Smith & Cross, respectively).
