 Welcome back to Drinks Made Easy, because cocktails don't have to be difficult. Today we're taking a look at a julep, but not your standard mint julep. This is a parsley julep using gin. It's a fantastic cocktail that a lot of people oftentimes overlook, and one of my favorite podcast hosts, John August, brought this up a couple of weeks ago as their one cool thing. John August and Craig Mason, who if you don't know them, you've probably seen tons of their work in there. It's a great podcast, but John brought up how much he loves this particular cocktail. So it reminded me that this is something that a lot of people don't know about, but it is delicious. So try it out. If you haven't already, please click on the subscribe button and the bell icon so you'll be notified every time we release a new video. And without any further ado, let's make a cocktail. To build the parsley julep, you'll take two large sprigs of parsley. Now if you particularly enjoy the flavor of parsley, you can always add more. Express it with a quick clap. This basically helps the oils come up to the surface. And then I'm gonna add our two ounces of gin, and give it a quick muddle to extract as much flavor as possible. Now some people would wait until you're adding your crushed ice and just do your muddle. Then that's perfectly adequate if you prefer that way, but I really like to try and get as much flavor out of the parsley as possible. I'm also having added yet the fresh lime juice, which is gonna be three quarters of an ounce, or the three quarters of an ounce of fresh simple syrup yet. As I find when you have that much liquid in the glass, you can start having spillage and it just gets a little bit unwieldy. I'm gonna cap that off with some ice. Gonna fill it about three quarters of the way, give it another little muddle with our disc spoon. Finish capping it off with more ice. This will more than likely get messy because that's what happens with crushed ice. Garnish with a spoon, express a little bit of parsley, and place it in next to your straw. Now a little trick, anytime you're using parsley, basil, mint, really any sort of herb that you're using as a garnish, express it and put it next to the straw. Therefore, whenever your guests are drinking it, you're gonna get a nice waft of that herb and 78% of taste is smell, so it'll heighten the drink and it's just a little trick to make your drinks that much more enjoyable. Easy as that, you have the parsley julep. I love this julep variation. It's a lot more herbaceous than your typical mint julep is and while this is great in the summertime, this is also so great in the winter. I don't know what it is, whether it makes me think of springtime and just sort of the tartness of the lime, but it's delicious. Check it out, let us know what you think. It's always great to have a few drinks in your pocket that are great year round and this is definitely one of them. Cheers from Drinks Made Easy.