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A Moscow Mule, also known as a Vodka buck, is a buck made with a high-quality vodka, a spicy ginger beer, and lime juice, garnished with a slice or wedge of lime. It is usually served in a copper mug. The cocktail became popular during the vodka craze in the United States during the 1950s. The name refers to the popular perception of vodka as a Russian product. ==History== The cocktail was invented in 1941 by John G. Martin of G.F. Heublein Brothers, Inc., an East Coast spirits and food distributor, and "Jack" Morgan, President of Cock 'n' Bull Products (which produced ginger beer) and proprietor of the Cock 'n' Bull restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles popular with celebrities.〔 George Sinclair (2007) quotes from an article run in the ''New York Herald Tribune'':
The Moscow mule is almost always served in a copper mug. The popularity of this way to serve the drink was due to Martin, who went around the country to sell Smirnoff vodka and popularize the Moscow mule. Martin asked bartenders to pose with a specialty copper mug and a bottle of Smirnoff vodka and photographed a polaroid picture of them. He took two photos, leaving one with the bartender for display. The other photo would be put into a collection and would be used as proof to the next bar that Martin visited of the popularity of the Moscow mule.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paykocimports.com/blog/whats-the-story-behind-the-moscow-mule-and-that-copper-mug/ )〕 The popularity of serving the Moscow Mule in a copper mug has carried through to present day, primarily due to tradition and aesthetic reasons According to an article in 1942's ''Insider Hollywood'', the Moscow Mule was most popular in Los Angeles. ''The Nevada State Journal'' (12 October 1943) reinforced the mule's popularity in reporting: "Already the Mule is climbing up into the exclusive handful of most-popular mixed drinks". It became known as a favourite drink of Reno casino owner William F. Harrah. In his 1964 book ''Beat the Dealer'', Edward O. Thorp did not name the Tahoe casino where he thought he had been poorly treated as a card counter. He said "I went to the bar and had a Moscow Mule", which was a subtle hint that the location was Harrah's Tahoe, due to Harrah's then well-known proclivity for the drink. In the last five years the Moscow mule being famous in Europe too, but from the beginning was prepared and served with ginger ale instead ginger beer. Now the original recipe is known to the most, thanks to many cocktails bar that develop this culture around this drink, one of the most important is the flagship store of Russian Standard Vodka, settled in Milan and called Davai Milano. This unique vodka bar increase the popularity of this drink, on their manu got 6 different twist on classic: from the original to the new mixology trend, but all made with the old jamaican ginger beer, according to the first recipe from the 40'. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moscow mule」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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