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For me ‘Kentucky’ plus ‘cocktail’ brings bourbon to the front of my brain. I even own a cookbook called The Kentucky Bourbon Cookbook. Woodford Reserve… [more] is the official Kentucky Derby bourbon; the official cocktail is the mint julep. In fact, last year at the derby, attendees bought: 120,000 mint juleps, 800 LBS of bourbon balls, 7,800 liters of bourbon and 426,000 cans of beer. Granted, 164,858 were there: dressed-to-the-hilt, placing