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Moscow mule bones with bourbon. Lime keeps the ginger beer from tasting like soda.
The sheet · 1 mug · 4 min
easyWhy tonight. Moscow mule bones with bourbon. Lime keeps the ginger beer from tasting like soda.
What it needs
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- bourbon
- ginger beer
- lime
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: mint.
Method
- 2 oz bourbon, ½ oz lime, ginger beer to top, over plenty of ice.
- Ginger beer, not ginger ale. Ale is sugar water and the drink collapses without the heat.
- Build in the glass, one lift, lime wedge squeezed and dropped in.
- Bourbon and ginger are both sweet, so this needs more lime than a vodka mule does — a full half ounce, not a token wedge.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- bourbon
- Corn-sweet and vanilla-heavy from new oak, so it takes bitterness and citrus without being flattened.
- ginger beer
- Heat and sweetness with real carbonation behind it, which is why it carries a drink that ginger ale only decorates.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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