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you have one guess as to what i'm making
today welcome back friends it's anders
today we are making the moscow mule 12
times because the moscow mule has an
amazing number of variations you name it
there's a mule for it so i'm gonna show
you how i make my standard classic
moscow mule it is a little different and
then i'm gonna make some of those other
variations and then i gathered up some
bottles from around here at the bar and
i'm gonna throw in a mule to see how it
works my theory is that it's probably
gonna work pretty well and i will also
of course cover the history if you don't
like the history you can skip ahead
that's why i leave timestamps down below
but if you really like the history like
you really really like the history then
slow it down and watch it in slow-mo
let's go make some mules to the bar
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back in 1941 at a bar called the [ __ ]
and bull in los angeles california there
was a gentleman named jack morgan who
owned the bar and he was sitting on a
lot of ginger beer now he had a friend
named john martin who owned a
distribution company and had recently
acquired smyrna vodka but there's one
problem nobody is drinking vodka in the
1940s in the united states so he had
loads of vodka he needed to unload so he
went to his friend
jack and i realized these names are very
similar jack morgan john martin john the
vodka guy went to his friend jack at the
bar he said all right you've got a
problem you need to move ginger beer and
jack goes you got a problem you need to
move vodka what do we do so they sat
down and they had to come up with a
drink that they could sell to the public
now
the story gets kind of weird here
because some people say well jack had a
girlfriend who was in the copper
business some people say no there was
this stranger named sophie berezinski
who designed a copper mug and she
happened to walk into the bar when jack
and john were talking about what they
were going to do to sell their products
and she said well i got an idea you put
it in this people will love it now
whether or not that's true i don't know
because some other stories say no it's
actually just a bartender at the the
cotton bowl named wes price who came up
with this drink which is actually a very
believable story what's important here
is that john the vodka guy
was brilliant when it came to marketing
he took his bottle of smyrna vodka and
copper mug and he went around to various
bars taking pictures of bartenders
holding these two things saying this is
the new thing it's the moscow mule and
he would take a picture two pictures he
would give one to the bartender and then
he would take the other one and he would
go to the next bar and he'd say man i
was just over at that other bar
look what they're making they got this
great copper cup people love it it's
really taken off so that bartender's
saying well i gotta have that i need to
have that copper mug i need to have that
vodka so he said oh well i've got that
here you go let me take your picture and
he did this all around town and before
he knew it everybody knew about the
moscow mule and how cool this drink was
because it was served in a copper cup it
was designed to sell vodka specifically
smirnoff vodka it was designed to sell
ginger beer also designed to sell copper
mugs i guess all right real quick i want
to talk about the copper mug this one is
lined on the inside with a non-reactive
metal and i would suggest the same for
you now there is something called copper
toxicity over time if you have an acidic
beverage in a copper vessel 100 pure
copper vessel the copper is leached out
of the cup and you can ingest that and
you don't want too much copper in your
body it's bad bad things happen some
will say it takes a long time for that
copper to leach out into your drink but
i say better safe than sorry so
get a lined copper mug such as this one
now the booze for the moscow mule you
will need vodka fresh lime juice ginger
ale or ginger beer angostura bitters and
fresh mint vodka vodka lime fresh ginger
ale you can use ginger ale if it's
really spicy otherwise ginger beer and
ginger beer is pretty much the standard
you could also do soda water and a
ginger syrup you can make your own
ginger syrup to whatever strength you
want or if you want a store-bought syrup
i highly recommend as usual library and
company they make a fiery ginger syrup
that is extremely hot and really
wonderful it also adds a bit of texture
to the drink so that is also a good
option angostura bitters this is not
called for in the original moscow mule
but it's really good in there it makes
the drink more interesting and i highly
suggest you try it mint this is the
garnish you get a big bouquet of mint
you'll see i like to put a big sprig of
mint on there most people just do a lime
wheel that's fine
but if you got it use it all right so
let's go ahead and make the basic moscow
mule and then we will go and build all
the other mules let's build
okay all right
in the vessel grab some ice let's put
the ice in we're gonna just fill it up
so i'm gonna start with the vodka i'm
gonna do two ounces of vodka
three quarters of an ounce of lime juice
two good dashes of angostura bitters
actually i'm gonna go three these
dashers are really small and then we top
it off with ginger ale or ginger beer
all right this is gonna be about four
ounces i would say probably closer to
five depending on your cup gonna give it
a little stir and then a big sprig of
mint give it a smack
drop it right in ta-dah that was pretty
simple the moscow mule cheers take a
quick sip while it's fresh
definitely get mint light refreshing i
think the bitters is important easy
drinking crowd pleaser so now we can set
this off to the
side and try some other mules so now the
fun part we get to move the vodka aside
and pull in all like other kinds of
stuff so going down the line i've got
gin silver tequila jamaican rum bourbon
single malt isla scotch cognac pisco
absinthe bataviara rock fernette branca
and malort the first half are going to
be renditions you probably have heard of
the second half
probably not
so let's build round two all right so
i'm going to make these a little
differently than i did before i'm going
to hold off on the ice because i don't
want it to melt right away i've got a
lot of ground to cover before i can add
the ice now some of these are much
bigger flavor than vodka so i'm going to
adjust the ratios as i see fit there we
are 11 mules all right okay so first
we're gonna go from this end to this end
first one is the gin london mule is a
pretty common name for this one i did
put bitters in all of them because i
wanted to keep it consistent and that's
how i like my mules so the london mule
cheers
i like it better than the moscow mule
bright botanicals still very crisp
refreshing we're going to keep this
moving tequila known as a mexican mule
cheers
i'm glad we went with the silver tequila
you can taste the tequila it's not too
soft tequila e with a little bite this
is essentially the el diablo minus the
creme de cassis next up
jamaican rum i cut back this ratio a
little bit because this jamaican rum in
particular the smith cross is really
strong bold flavor
with the spicy ginger that should be
really tasty uh jamaican mule
and that is outstanding so far that is
my favorite with the ginger that bold
spice really good on to the bourbon this
is called a kentucky mule because that's
where bourbon comes from originally you
can make bourbon anywhere in the united
states we're not going to talk about
that now kentucky mule who that ginger's
getting to me
okay on to the kentucky mule also known
as a horse feather cheers
oh bourbon and ginger is a combination
that i fell in love with long ago and
that got me into whiskies really like
this one typically i make it with lemon
juice so try it with lemon
works with lime too though on to the
next one isla scotch a single malt isla
the laphroaig tenure big peaty smoky
scotch with spicy ginger this is gonna
be fire in your mouth cheers
oh
these are all so good
okay here's what's happening
the flavors are getting bigger
and my mouth is probably getting dumber
because there's so much spice and flavor
i did cut this one back from the two
ounces it's an ounce and a half
you could probably go down to just one
ounce and still taste it but i i do like
it next we have cognac love me some
cognac this one i believe is called a
french mule cheers
super easy i did go the full two ounces
on this one remarkably smooth very soft
especially compared to the previous
three i fear i may have killed my taste
buds with the isle of scotch the next
one is pisco which i anticipate is going
to be soft as well this would be a
peruvian mule because this is a peruvian
pisco
if you use a chilean pisco i would call
it a chilean mule cheers
oddly enough i do taste the pisco that's
really nice yeah there's like a fruity
element to it that's really good i
really do like the pisco i have never
had that before you saw it here live not
live this was recorded ahead of time uh
next
absinthe i actually thought i was
thinking outside of the box here but i
looked online and this is called a
bohemian mule it's a thing cheers
oh that's a thing for a reason that's
really tasty there's a full ounce and a
half in there too that's a lot of
absolute see here we're getting bigger
flavors but yeah i definitely get absent
on to the next one i'm gonna call this
one the indonesian mule made with
pitavia rock known as indonesian rum but
it's made from sugar cane and red rice
this one in particular to me it kind of
tastes like
like shoes
in a good way there was there was
actually a time in my life where
i was drinking this on the rocks
it was a rough patch i grew to really
like the stuff so
cheers
i definitely get a hint of shoe it might
not be for everybody this is more of an
acquired taste but mixes really well i
really like it and i can taste it which
is good now the fernet i cut this one
way back two ounces would be too much
this is one ounce of fernet cheers
hmm
yeah so far i'm i'm proving that this
theory works that's really good if you
like fournette this is a refreshing
fernet drink kind of reminiscent of
fernet and coke really big in argentina
hate all my argentinian friends
on to the last jepsons malort notorious
for tasting
bad this is the true test if this works
in here
then we have discovered the ultimate
cocktail formula we will call this the
chicago mule cheers
the chicago mule sucks it's really good
up front it's bright you get the spice
it's kind of grape fruity and then all
of a sudden your tongue turns on you and
it just tastes
like
hairspray that is mallorc
i think that's part of its charm you
might like it people might really like
it i just don't uh and i only did one
ounce oz
i'm curious i'm gonna try okay i'm gonna
try the rum
whoa
that's really good i'm going to skip i
want to try absinthe
yeah yeah you get absent you get absent
there's a chance you might not like okay
batavia a rock
that's good oh good i'm gonna go with
the fernan because i know i don't like
burnett well that's right i forgot you
don't i don't like brunette
oh
no well if you like fernette i'm sure
you'll love it if you don't like burnett
it won't make you like fernan okay melor
oh
she loves it okay
you know what i like this better than
the fernette one that's how much i hate
for that maybe that's just how what that
means back to you andre thank you kindly
in conclusion top three for me
definitely the jamaican wrong i gotta
say the bourbon was really really good
and i think the batavia rock would be my
third what i wanted to do was swap out
the base spirit which i did and it
worked for the most part but i do think
whatever you use give it a shot like
don't be scared to mix with whatever you
want it's your bar it's your booze i
would probably pick all of these above
the moscow mule that's just me what fun
like and subscribe i will see you next
week be good enjoy your booze
responsibly maybe don't do all this at
once get some friends i'll see you next
time
cheers
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