re: Worst cocktail blunder you ever experienced

Bar at Cafe Adelaide for a pre-meeting meeting with a client. Ordered a mint julep. Bartender gives me something that was not a mint julep. Tasted likes peaches. So I tell him. He makes a new one, still tastes like peaches. I tell him. He says “oops, that was peach simple syrup.” There was something else wrong with it but I couldn’t place it. So on the third one, I watch and realize he’s also putting sour mix in it. We started over for the fourth try, I asked him to just put some mint and simple syrup in then fill it with ice and bourbon. He said he wasn’t from here so that’s why he didn’t know how to make it.