• 1.5 oz Vodka
  • 4 Pumps Monin Ginger Beer Syrup
  • Club Soda
  • 1/2 oz Lime Juice

Garnish:

  • Lime Wedge

Instructions:

  1. Add Large Ice cube to Mule Mug
  2. Add Vodka, Ginger Syrup and Lime Juice to Boston Shaker, Shake
  3. Add Club Sota, stir
  4. Pour drink over ice cube in the cup
  5. Add Lime Wedge to Garnish

Origin: 1940’s

Despite its name and main ingredient, the Moscow Mule doesn’t hail from Russia. It’s a red-blooded American cocktail, cooked up in Manhattan in 1941 by three men in the beverage industry: one a distributor, one a maker of ginger beer, and one a maker of vodka. They wondered what it would taste like to add two shots of vodka to ginger beer and a squeeze of lime. It tasted good. Thus the Moscow Mule, named after their location at the Chatham Hotel, the birthplace of “Little Moscow,” was born. 

Or so the legend goes. The more likely story is that Wes Price, head bartender at the Cock’n Bull restaurant in Los Angeles, invented it while trying to clean out some dead stock from the restaurant’s basement. Either way, it’s a drink that, with its signature copper mug, has become extremely popular over the years. Get the mug if you want to go all out, or serve it in a regular glass. Either way, it’s timeless and delicious.

Variations:

Kentucky Mule: Substitute Vodka for Bourbon, garnish with mind instead of Lime

Mexican Mule: Substitute Vodka for Tequila

Gin Gin Mule: Substitute Vodka for Gin

Glasgow Mule: Substitute Vodka for Scotch Whisky, add 1/2 oz St Germain and a dash of Angostura Bitters