mint julep, anyone?

so we have decided that we are going to BYO a bit of our own drinks to foxfields this year, since by the end, everyone is always scrounging for booze. we have all bought our own personal little gallon thermoses, and are picking our own drinks. i picked mint juleps.

as you probably all know, the recipe involves making a large batch of simple syrup and then mixing it with bourbon to make individual servings. all the recipes pretty much say to make 2 cups of simple syrup, but when i looked at 2 cups, it seemed like so little, so i decided that i would double the recipe. i didn't really pay any attention to how many mint juleps this would make, until i decided it was time to figure out how much bourbon i would need to mix this with (since the thermos does not allow for making at the exact time of consumption, i had decided to just deal with it.) even when i do notice that it's 44 servings, that doesn't seem like a lot b/c i figure they will be small and all the recipes seem to involve a lot of ice. i figure by the end of foxfields, i won't need much stinkin' ice.

so the recipe says 2oz. of bourbon per julep. doesn't seem like a lot. i multiply the 2oz. by the 44 drinks the recipe says each batch will make, times the 2 batches i have made and put it into an online converter to tell me how many cups of bourbon i will need.

22 cups of bourbon.

hm. i may have to re-think this plan.