MOSCOW MULE - ALL ABOUT GINGER!

You say Moscow as in “Cow”, I say Moscow as in “Coe” – Either way though this mule kicks a punch – or should I say a buck.  Originally this drink could have been called a Vodka Buck (or mule) – Buck (mule) being a now almost defunct expression used to describe a drink in which ginger ale or ginger beer is mixed with citrus.

Where the Moscow bit of it came from I’m not sure – the cocktail is supposed to have been invented in New York's Chatham Hotel in 1941.  Despite its East Coast origins it apparently became a lot more popular on the West Coast.  In December of 1942 the Insider Hollywood in Los Angeles reported: "There is a new drink that is a craze in the movie colony now. It is called 'Moscow Mule'"