Mint Juleps
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- fooler
This weekend is the 134th Kentucky Derby. I plan on drinking some Mint Juleps and doing some off track betting for the most exciting 2 minutes in sports.
Anyone have any insider tips?
- madirish0
don't use cheap bourbon
- 7point340
crush mint,
put on top of bourbonwhat other tips would you be looking for?
- madirish0
make your own simple syrup
- SoupCan0
Living in Kentucky you think I would but I haven't heard anything... What do you have?
- flavorful0
The smart money is on Big Brown ... but when has the smart money ever proven correct?
- flavorful0
* Paging joyride and mrdobolina, mrdobolina.
- Mimio0
Hummingbird food.
- Point50
wow, that's this weekend?! wtf... this will be the 3rd time I don't attend it after I said that "I'm going to the Kentucky Derby this year" 3 years ago
- flavorful0
Throw down on Denis of Cork to place... hell to win straight up.
Throw down money for me. I can't bet because I have a gambling problem ... but you don't.
I'M PAYPALING YOU MONEY NOW!
- fooler0
i'm pretty sure it's this weekend, it kind of snuck up on me. I have friends that I used to go OFF TRACK betting with every year and they just moved back to Louisville. Last year we all promised to attend in person ( after a few too many juleps ). Needless to say I'll be watching at a bar again.
- flavorful0
I went to the Preakness a few years back ...
Fucking G-d damn insane inside in that infield. Fucking G-d damn insane.
- haha that's just baltimore's excuse to drink outside in public...7point34
- i've known people that go and some have said they've never once seen a horse7point34
- seen a lot of rednecks, sun burns and tits though... sometimes all at once7point34
- My cousin and I were leaving early to catch it at a bar but weren't allowed out ...flavorful
- ... we had no concept of time as the race was starting got to see Barbaro break his fucking leg I was jumping up and downflavorful
- like a mad man because I had a lot on Bernardino, hahah.flavorful
- An alarming amount of biddies there. College biddies who drink from a bong and squat against fences to piss.flavorful
- As long as you weren't lighting a fire, or trying to hop a fence ... basically nothing was off limits.flavorful
- baltimore is ALL class... [ groans ]7point34
- It's better than Philadelphia?flavorful
- I've only heard horses at the derby... never seen any though. only on the monitors during the actual derbyjoyride
- flavorful0
Based on the odds Pyro and Colonel John look like safe picks as well.
Throw in a Denis of Cork, and a Z-Fortune for good measure to cover your bases.
When planning on upsets it's always good to cover on actual smart bets.
- brianbrooks0
I live 5 min from the track - the word on the street is Colonel John
- adamm0
Don't ever trust an animal with a nose that long.
- mrdobolina0
I still owe Dr. Rand a bottle of Julep. I completely forgot I told him I would send him one, I'm a dick, he's awesome.
- Dr_Rand0
last week there was an article in the NYT on the new "alt" style juleps made with shiso leaf, rhubarb, etc
- blasphemymadirish
- they should just call it something else.mrdobolina
- Like doucheps. Or alteps.flavorful
- hahaha... just don't ever get one at Churchill downs... horrible... just fucking horriblejoyride
- joyride0
I've like pyro since last year, but his last race (10th) has me worried. I don't really like the jockey on Col. John, but maybe he's due. Never count out e. prado, so adriano could be a dark horse. I think the winner this year will be a 10 or 15 - 1. Big brown is starting outside (20) so I think he's gonna press hard early to get towards the front(like he always does), but it's a long race so I think he'll tire.
Track should be dry, with only rain overnite and early morning...
- madirish0
i hear there is a lot of nudity there in the middle part.