Moscow Mule

The Moscow Mule is a cocktail with ginger flavor and is one of the highballs, that contains a base spirit a greater proportion of non- alcoholic ingredients (so-called filler ). Based on the classic drinks group of the Bucks - mixtures of spirit, citrus juice and ginger beer ( a sharp, spicy ginger beer ) - the Moscow Mule is made with vodka and typically served in a copper cup on the rocks. He wore in the 1950s instrumental in establishing vodka in the United States as a mix - spirit.

History

The Moscow Mule was created in the early 1940s in the United States and is closely associated with the vodka brand Smirnoff. The distillery Smirnov founded in the late 19th century in Moscow was the first, started the charcoal for filtering the distillate her vodka was particularly mild in comparison to others, then usual products, clearly and without taste. During the October Revolution, the plants were confiscated so that the owner family left the country and new distilleries first opened in Constantinople Opel, 1925 in Paris and in the process changed the company name to the Latin spelling Smirnoff. In the wake of the global economic crisis, Vladimir Smirnov saw in 1934 forced his company to Rudolph Kunett to sell the transferred the seat in the United States and 1938 ( or 1939) for his part as Pierre Smirnoff integrated into the spirits company GF Heublein Brothers Inc.. At that time, vodka in the U.S. still largely unknown, and John G. Martin, a Heublein manager, looking for ways to change this. He arrived in 1941 to John A. "Jack" Morgan, host in Cock'n Bull Pub in Hollywood who wanted to sell his home-made ginger beer. Together with Kunett the idea is to have developed to create a drink from two ingredients, which was served in a copper mug to make it distinctive. The copper cups were distributed in bars, and clever marketing was soon at the major Popularirät of drinks - the Moscow Mule headed the vodka boom of the 1950s, one that continues to this day. All marketing efforts of Smirnoff defiance: Decisive for the taste is not the choice of the "right " vodka - which is already a nearly neutral tasting spirit - but the Ginger Beers. However, it is not about beer in the traditional sense, but a sharp, spicy lemonade with ginger. Since real ginger beer for a long time in Europe was hardly available, it was sometimes replaced by the much more lenient soft drink Ginger Ale. The increased availability of Ginger Beer since the turn of the millennium had in recent years with the increasing popularity of Mixgetränks in Germany.

Preparation and variations

Usually, a Moscow Mule in a copper mug or a copper cup, alternatively prepared a highball glass by squeezes two lime quarters in it, some ice cubes and a part vodka ( for example, 5 cl ) and about three parts ginger beer (eg. 15cl ) adds and stir briefly.

Also widespread, few dashes Angostura Bitters is added; this variation is partly called Kicking Mule. Other variations are caused by the exchange of the base spirit, the Three Legged Mule with (Irish ) whiskey and gin instead of vodka with London Buck and lemon juice instead of lime. In parts of southern Germany and the name Munich Mule for a Moscow Mule with "real " Ginger Beer is used or for a variant with gin ( Munich Duke gin ) and cucumber slice.