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Typical recipe

• 3 oz. chilled vodka
• 12 oz. ginger beer (soda)
• 1/2 lime
• Ice

Squeeze the lime juice into a chilled pint glass, then drop the lime in. Fill hallway with ice and pour in the vodka and soda. Stir, garnish, and serve.

NOTE: When serving a Moscow Mule in the traditional copper mug, which typically holds 12 fl. oz., reduce all ingredients by 50%.

Variations

• Mexican Mule, with tequila
• Jamaican Mule, with spiced rum
• Wild Mule, with absinthe
• Helsinki Mule, with Koskenkorva
• London Mule, with gin
• Three Legged Mule, with Jameson Irish Whiskey

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History

The Moscow Mule kicked off the vodka craze in the United States during the 1950s, when gin was the preferred "white" (clear) liqour. The cocktail was invented by John G. Martin of Heublein, Inc., an East Coast spirits and food distributor that bought the rights to Smirnoff vodka, and Jack Morgan, proprietor of the Cock 'N' Bull, a bar on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard popular with celebrities. Martin had the idea to mix vodka with Morgan's struggling ginger beer franchise. Add to that a unique copper mug (now hard to find), and they had the recipe for a refreshing drink that fast became popular. In response, Smirnoff launched an entire Moscow Mule marketing campaign targeting American bars, a strategy that played a major role in shifting the liquor market from gin to vodka. Various Smirnoff products Plastic 473ml Smirnoff Ice no76, bottled in Dorval, Quebec. ... Sunset Boulevard (officially known as West Sunset Boulevard, except in Beverly Hills) is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. ...

References

• Grimes, William (2001). Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail. New York: North Point Press. ISBN 0-86547-601-2.

External links

• History of the Moscow Mule