Moscow Mule
The Moscow Mule is a cocktail with ginger flavor and is one of the high balls , so contains a base spirit a greater proportion of non-alcoholic ingredients (so-called. Filler ). Based on the classic Bucks beverage group - mixtures of spirit , citrus juice and ginger beer (a spicy ginger lemonade) - the Moscow Mule is prepared with vodka and typically served in a copper cup on the rocks . In the 1950s, he made a significant contribution to establishing vodka as a mixed spirit in the United States .
history
The Moscow Mule originated in the United States in the early 1940s and is closely associated with the Smirnoff vodka brand . The Smirnow distillery, founded in Moscow at the end of the 19th century, was the first to use charcoal to filter the distillate; Compared to other products common at the time, their vodka was particularly mild, clear and tasteless. During the October Revolution , the facilities were confiscated, so that the owner family left the country and new distilleries first opened in Constantinople , and in 1925 also in Paris , in the course of which the company name changed to the Latin spelling Smirnoff . In the Great Depression , Vladimir Smirnov was forced in 1934 to sell his company to Rudolph Kunett, who moved the seat to the US and the company in 1938 or 1939 as Pierre Smirnoff in the spirits company G. F. Heublein Brothers Inc. built. At the time, vodka was still largely unknown in the United States and John G. Martin, a hayloft manager, was looking for ways to change that.
In 1941 he met John A. "Jack" Morgan, host of the Cock'n Bull Pub in Hollywood , who wanted to market his self-made ginger lemonade. Together with Kunett, the idea is said to have arisen to create a drink from both ingredients, which was served in a copper cup to make it unmistakable. The copper cups were distributed in bars, and clever marketing soon contributed to the drink's great popularity - the Moscow Mule ushered in the vodka boom of the 1950s, which continues to this day. Despite all of Smirnoff's marketing efforts: The decisive factor for the taste is not the choice of the "right" vodka - an almost neutral-tasting spirit anyway - but the ginger beer. However, this is not beer in the traditional sense, but a hot, spicy lemonade with ginger . Since real ginger beer was hardly available in Europe for a long time, it was sometimes replaced by the much milder soft drink ginger ale . The better availability of ginger beer since the turn of the millennium has contributed to the increasing popularity of the mixed drink in Germany in recent years.
Preparation and variations
A Moscow Mule is usually prepared in a copper mug or cup, or alternatively a highball or long drink glass , by squeezing out quarters of lime , adding ice cubes , one part vodka and three parts ginger beer and stirring it briefly.
It is also common to add a few dashes of an aromatic bitter , for example Angostura bitter . This variant is sometimes called the kicking mule . Further variations are created by exchanging the basic spirit, such as the Three Legged Mule with (Irish) whiskey and the London Buck with gin instead of vodka and with lemon juice instead of lime. In Germany, variants are also called Munich Mule , for example the combination of gin, lime juice, ginger beer and cucumber slice.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna J. Kutor, The Moscow Mule - The cocktail did jump-started the American vodka vogue on www.loti.com
- ↑ Bastian Heuser: From bartenders for bartenders: Moscow Mule In: Mixology online blog from July 17, 2011, accessed on April 19, 2013.
- ↑ Helmut Adam, Jens Hasenbein, Bastian Heuser: Cocktailian. The bar's manual . Tre Torri, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-941641-41-9 , p. 249.
- ↑ Munich Mule: From mystery to audience favorite . In: Mixology online blog of June 12, 2019, accessed July 23, 2019.