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Moscow Mule recipe

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2 oz Smirnoff® No. 21 Vodka
2 oz lime juice
8 oz ginger ale

Mix ingredients in a highball glass with ice.

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Needs to be

posted by Jill @ 06:30PM, 7/25/06

In a copper mug. Makes all the difference in the world.

Fresh ingredients

posted by cocktailcat @ 12:35PM, 8/18/06

Use fresh lime and pureed ginger.

Moscow Mule

posted by shubeedoo @ 05:51PM, 11/21/06

I use Ginger Beer and serve in copper cups filled with ice.

Ginger BEER

posted by PeterH @ 12:30AM, 1/11/07

Terrible recipe: use lime juice, bitters, and ginger beer. A new world of booze. If not, at least a great drink in the New Zealand summer.

Moscow mule

posted by CV @ 01:40PM, 2/25/07

I have had it with ginger beer, not ginger ale... and it needs to be served in a copper cup.

Diet ginger ale

posted by tigrre @ 11:40PM, 3/02/07

Decent drink. I used diet ginger ale instead of regular.

Ginger beer

posted by chefbiggcatt @ 07:50PM, 5/01/07

A copper mug AND ginger beer rather than ginger ale makes a huge difference...check an international mkt for ginger beer!

Ginger BEER not Ginger Ale

posted by Chewbacca @ 08:24PM, 5/07/07

If you really want this drink to taste awesome, use ginger beer, which is stronger and finishes with a bite. It is ultimately superior to using ginger ale. Also, use fresh lime only! Rose's or other lime juice won't be nearly as good.

Agreed

posted by Johnsons @ 07:59PM, 7/22/07

Ginger beer and a copper mug a must! - that is how it was first made and there is no other recipe. Others (highball glass and ginger ale) are incorrect and are not true moscow mules.

I agree with some of the above

posted by neural_jam @ 01:51PM, 10/20/07

My preferred way of doing it is in a copper mug, with crushed ice, ginger *beer* and a dash or three of angostura bitters, which does make a difference... and in my large mugs I tend to use a bit more vodka and a touch more ginger beer, and drop two or three of the squeezed lime quarters in the mug.

THE REAL RECIPE!!!

posted by The inventor of Moscow mules @ 01:59PM, 11/01/07

Its a tall glass with Bitters, vodka,ginger ALE, lime cordial and a slice of lime! It originated as an alteration to a long vodka!

No ginger ale

posted by rupert @ 12:02AM, 12/16/07

MUST BE MADE WITH GINGER BEER.
Trying to make this drink taste good with diet ginger ale is just plain foolish.

A MUST

posted by bobigs @ 11:40AM, 1/31/08

the ginger beer is important, but nothing is more critical than the copper mugs.