Cocktail· Vodka
Moscow Mule
The Moscow Mule is a built highball cocktail of vodka, fresh lime juice, and ginger syrup (or ginger beer), served over ice in a copper mug with a lime wedge. It was invented in 1941 at the Cock 'n' Bull restaurant in Los Angeles as a marketing partnership between Smirnoff vodka and Cock 'n' Bull ginger beer. The copper mug serves the drink very cold and gives a metallic edge that complements the ginger.
Ingredients
- 2 oz vodka
- 0.75 oz fresh lime juice
- 0.5 oz ginger syrup
- 3 oz cold soda water, to top
Method
- Add vodka, lime juice, and ginger syrup to a chilled copper mug.
- Fill with fresh ice.
- Top with cold soda water.
- Stir once gently to integrate without killing the bubbles.
- Garnish with a lime wedge and a sprig of fresh mint.
Garnish
Lime wedge and fresh mint sprig
Pro tip
House ginger syrup with cold soda outperforms most bottled ginger beers; the bottled stuff is usually too sweet and loses the fresh ginger bite by the time it ships.
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