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This is one cocktail with plenty of character. Firstly, cocktail aficionados will insist that it must be served in copper mugs for the authentic drinking experience. This has very little to do with flavour and a lot to do with copper’s properties as an excellent heat conductor. You want your Vodka Mule ice cold like the streets of its namesake city.
Another interesting note is that even though this drink was made in a modern city, the Moscow Mule history is a long one. It’s claimed – according to a New York Herald Tribune article on the Moscow Mule origin – to have been created in 1941 by a bartender who needed to clear out his cellar of vodka and ginger beer.
Well, there’s unlikely to be much more unsold stock when this legend is on the menu. So popular is the drink that there’s variations of it all across the world featuring everything from absinthe to whisky, with plenty more in between. However, the classic combination of vodka and ginger beer can never be replaced.
