# Mint

A fresh aromatic herb with a cooling fragrance and bright green character.

Alcohol: 0% ABV

## Cocktails

- [Absinthe Frappé](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/absinthe-frappe.md): A bracing New Orleans cooler that softens absinthe’s anise and herbs with mint, sugar, soda, and crushed ice.
- [Aku Aku](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/aku-aku.md): Fresh pineapple and mint are flash-blended with lightly aged rum, peach liqueur, lime, and demerara before being fine-strained into an unusually vivid up drink.
- [Art of Choke](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/art-of-choke.md): Cynar and rum absorb lime, rich demerara, bitters, and muddled mint in a stirred drink whose fresh ingredients behave nothing like a conventional sour.
- [Champagne Julep](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/champagne-julep.md): Cold Champagne, mint, and one sugar cube make a light nineteenth-century julep over fine ice, finished with fresh fruit rather than another spirit.
- [Cynar Julep](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cynar-julep.md): This Buenos Aires modern classic makes Cynar the base of a cooling crushed-ice drink with mint, lemon, and bittersweet grapefruit soda.
- [Hugo Spritz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hugo-spritz.md): A light, floral spritz of elderflower liqueur, Prosecco, soda, mint, and lime.
- [Mint Julep](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mint-julep.md): A cold, fragrant bourbon drink in which mint and a little sugar open the whiskey without obscuring it.
- [Missionary’s Downfall](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/missionarys-downfall.md): Donn Beach's pale-green frozen classic, fragrant with fresh pineapple, mint, peach, honey, and lime over a light rum base.
- [Mojito](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mojito.md): Cuba's defining mint highball keeps white rum, lime, sugar, soda, and whole fresh leaves in a cold, fragrant, sparkling balance.
- [Old Cuban](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/old-cuban.md): An aged-rum Daiquiri lengthened with sparkling wine and perfumed with mint and aromatic bitters.
- [Queen’s Park Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-swizzle.md): A high-octane Trinidadian swizzle that drives dark Demerara rum through fragrant mint, lime, sugar, and aromatic bitters.
- [Southside](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/southside.md): A clean gin sour made vivid and cooling with fresh lime and mint.
- [Whiskey Smash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/whiskey-smash.md): Muddled lemon flesh and peel make this bourbon-and-mint cooler more pulpy and aromatic than either a Whiskey Sour or a Mint Julep.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/mint
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/mint-2d265946.webp
- Source: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30016176-2