What is mixed with vodka to make a Moscow Mule?!
What is mixed with vodka to make a Moscow Mule?
Answers:
Mowscow Mule
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 oz Smirnoff vodka
- 3 oz. ginger beer
- 1 tsp. sugar syrup
- 1/4 oz. lime juice
- 1 sprig mint
- 1 slice lime
In a copper mug, pour vodka over ice. Add sugar syrup and lime juice. Top with ginger beer and stir. Garnish with mint sprig and lime slice.
History of Moscow Mule:
In 1941, John G. Martin of Heublein, spirits and food distributor in east coast and Jack Morgan, Owner of the ****'n Bull bar in Sunset Strip, Hollywood met in a bar in Los Angeles. Together they invented Moscow Mule by mixing Morgan's singer beer with Smirnoff Vodka and lime in order to market the proprietor's struggling ****'n Bull's ginger-beer franchise.
They ordered specially engraved copper mugs and Martin set off to market it in the bars around the country. He bought one of the first Polaroid cameras and asked barmen to pose with a Moscow Mule copper mug and a bottle of Smirnoff vodka. Then he would leave one copy of the photo at the bar and take a second copy to the bar next door to show them that their competitors were selling their concoction. Between 1947 and 1950, thanks to their invention, Smirnoff vodka case columns more than tripled and nearly doubled in 1951.
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2 oz vodka
2 oz lime juice
8 oz ginger ale
Mix ingredients in a highball glass with ice.