The secret to a great Moscow Mule is the quality of your ginger beer - and make no mistake it must be ginger beer, that white, cloudy, spicy, gorgeous zing of a drink, and not the insiped, clear brown meuh of ginger ale (whatever the Smirnoff ads might tell you - ignore them, Smirnoff is wrong about the ginger ale. Oh and you can’t make one without lime either - fools!).

Get the spiciest ginger beer you can find, Fentiman’s for preference but Jamaica Ginger is also good.

Ingredients

Ice
1/2 fresh lime
Good slug of Vodka (50ml is good)
Ginger beer
Sprig of mint (if you’re feeling festive!)

makes 1 cocktail

1 Put ice in glass and squeeze lime into it
2 Add vodka and top up with ginger beer to taste

Enjoy (responsibly) very good on a hot summers day/sultry night.

Swap the vodka for golden rum for an equally tasty Jamaican Mule.