Many recipes (including the one for a classic Woodford mint julep found below) call for tiny spoonfuls of sugar, but it’s not super fun to be scooping sugar behind a bar when you’d rather just ...

Ultimately, the mint julep recipe at the track was revamped, and it now features either Old Forester, which is a sister brand of Woodford Reserve, or Woodford Reserve, and is also served as a ...

but has since rebounded thanks to the efforts of the Woodford Reserve brand, the release of its Mint Julep cocktail syrup and a standardization of the recipe served at Churchill Downs. Roughly ...