Highballs · ginger syrup and soda
Moscow Mule
Made with ginger syrup · Cock 'n' Bull, Los Angeles, 1941
- copper mug
- cubes
- build
Moscow Mule
- 2 oz60 ml vodka
- ½ oz15 ml fresh lime juice
- ¾ oz22 ml ginger syrup
- Top withTop with chilled soda water (about 3-4 oz)
- Fill a copper mug or highball glass halfway with ice.
- Add the vodka, lime juice and ginger syrup and stir to mix.
- Top with cold soda water, lift gently with a bar spoon to combine, then add more ice.
- Garnish with lime.
Garnish: lime wheel or wedge
The syrup
In this recipe
Ginger Syrup¾ oz22 ml
Ginger syrup is sugar dissolved into fresh ginger juice for real heat, or simmered with sliced ginger for mellow warmth.
3/4 oz of our 1:1 ginger syrup has about the sugar of 3-4 oz of craft ginger beer; ATK uses more because its syrup is made less sweet
As printed: 3 oz (90 ml) ginger beer in the classic; ATK: 1 1/2 oz ginger syrup + 5 oz seltzer; Harry's: 1/2 oz ginger simple syrup + 2 oz soda
Where it comes from
The usual story puts its creation at the Cock 'n' Bull in Los Angeles in 1941, when Smirnoff's John G. Martin and owner Jack Morgan combined their slow-selling vodka and ginger beer. The bar's head bartender, Wes Price, also claimed it. The copper mug became its trademark.
Source: The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails by David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum (eds.); entry by Paul Clarke (2021).
Checked against: Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails - The Moscow Mule (via Spirits & Distilling) · Punch - Moscow Mule · America's Test Kitchen - Moscow Mule (ginger syrup + seltzer) · KSHB - Harry's Country Club Moscow Mule (ginger simple syrup + soda)
The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
Gear for this drink
OXO SteeL Angled Measuring Jigger
Zulay Kitchen 2-in-1 Metal Lemon & Lime Squeezer
Best for Fresh citrus for sours and lemonade
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