The Kentucky Colonel Cocktail - Derby Drink Plays Honor To ???
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Bourbon and Benedictine
You’d probably guess the Kentucky Colonel cocktail contains bourbon if you were unfamiliar with the drink, and you would be right. However, the second ingredient isn’t as obvious.
The Kentucky Colonel cocktail combines bourbon with benedictine in a pairing not seen since 1816. It was then that Princess Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon assembled a congregation of French Catholic nuns together to form the Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, now known as the Benedictines in the Rue Monsieur, during the Bourbon Restoration shortly after the fall of Napoleon.
