Moscow mule

Ginger - Fresh Lime - Simple Syrup

The world’s most balanced cocktail!

Throughout cocktail history few, and we mean a minuscule few, cocktails were ever created out of pure necessity. Most were brought to life as by-products of having too much of a specific spirit or ingredient or intrepid forward-looking chemists (aka bartenders) crafting fanciful remedy elixir for what ailed them. But, the Moscow Mule is that outlier, that dark mule, that beat the odds and was created out of a pure will to survive.

Let us travel back in time to 1941 Los Angeles where a Russian immigrant named Sophia Berezinski and two businessmen, John Martin, & John Morgan, had a chance meeting that would create one of the world’s most enjoyed cocktails! See, Sohpia immigrated to the US in 1941 with a mission, to sell her families copper mugs, which just so happened to be perfect for cocktails but could not garner a following, before her husband destroyed them stating, “Find a buyer for the mugs or I’m tossing them.” - Moscow Copper Co

What Sophia’s husband didn’t realize was that his wife was on a hunt, not only for the perfect buyer but for the perfect drink for their mugs. Thus the two Johns enter the picture. On one of Sophia’s sales calls, she by chance, entered the Cock’n’Bull British Pub on Sunset Strip. Now here is where the story gets good. Both Johns were struggling businessmen. John Martin owned the struggling vodka company, Smirnoff, and John Morgan, owner of the Cock’n’Bull, was trying to introduce America to their first ever taste of ginger beer.

Coincidence, Nah, this was true cocktail fate!!

Over the next few hours, days, and weeks Sophia and the double Johns put their heads together, tinkering, tasting, and ultimately creating what we love and enjoy as the Moscow Mule. A cocktail that was the perfect refreshing combination and balance of ginger beer and vodka that the world would never look back.

Cheers to the Moscow Mule!

TASTING & SERVING NOTES: A Leisuremann's Moscow Mule celebrates the harmonious combination of ginger, lime, and vodka with no ingredient shining above the rest. On first taste, you will get a burst of lime-forward citrus followed by subtly refreshing & sweet ginger notes. A Leisuremann’s Moscow Mule is best served with crushed ice in a copper mug with a lime wedge as garnish - Cheers!