Moscow Mule
Ginger, lime and copper.
Vodka, spicy ginger beer and a splash of lime, served ice-cold in the famous copper mug. Fresh and zesty, it is the long drink that made vodka popular in America.
- IBA · Contemporary Classics
- Long drink
- Built
- Glass
- Copper mug
- Method
- Built
- Strength
- Light
- Time
- 2 min
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Ice
- Cubes
Ingredients
Measures for 1 serving
-
Vodka
45 ml
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Ginger beer
120 ml
-
Lime juice
10 ml
Garnish
- Lime slice
Proportions
How to make
- Fill the copper mug with ice.
- Pour the vodka.
- Add the ginger beer.
- Add the lime juice.
- Stir gently.
- Garnish with a lime slice.
The story
Origins
ProbableA plausible account, without definitive proof.
The Moscow Mule was born in the United States in the early 1940s as a marketing venture. A 1948 New York Herald Tribune article credits Jack Morgan, owner of the Cock 'n' Bull in Hollywood, who made a slow-selling ginger beer, and John G. Martin of Heublein, which had acquired Smirnoff vodka, together with Rudolph Kunett: the idea supposedly came about in 1941 at the bar of New York's Chatham Hotel. Other accounts credit Cock 'n' Bull bartender Wes Price. The drink already appears in print in August 1942 in Town & Country. The copper mug engraved with a mule and the Polaroid photos Martin used to promote it sealed its success.
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Taste profile
- Fresh
- 4 out of 5
- Bubbly
- 3 out of 5
- Citrus
- 3 out of 5
- Spicy
- 3 out of 5