Recipe

• 50ml bourbon whiskey

• 25ml sugar syrup

• 1 handful of mint leaves

Shove the mint into a half-pint glass, add the syrup and give it all a good bash around with something like a wooden spoon. Fill the glass with crushed ice and pour in the whiskey. Stir a bit and add a straw and a mint leaf on top to look nice. To get the leaves off a stalk quickly, hold the top end and run your thumb and forefinger down from top to bottom. To crush the ice, put it in some kind of plastic bag (e.g. the bag the ice came in) and bash it with a rolling pin.

Rubbish! Too sickly and sweet, like many things with bourbon in. I'll try rye whiskey next.