As far as I’m concerned, the key is to use a straw. I’ve tried all kinds of stuff — making mint-infused simple syrup, for example. But all you really have to do is muddle mint with sugar and a little club soda, add a generous amount of bourbon and some ice, and drink it out of a straw that reaches below the ice cubes to the muddled mint area.
What do you guys think?
Off topic, it is damned hard to find mint juleps at a bar. When I lived in Athens and my sister visited, we went to every bar in Athens asking for one (yes, a couple of yankees going door to door asking for a southern stereotype went over well). Finally, someone told us we’d have to go to Savannah. And when I went to Savannah, we had to try three places before we found one that had them.