Name: French Mule
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Cognac (brandy); 25 ml Lime juice; 12.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 dash Aromatic bitters; 75 ml Ginger beer

French Mule
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
⁵⁄₆ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
0.42 oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
2 ¹⁄₂ oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Beer

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Garnish: Lime wedge or mint sprig bouquet

How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled mug or glass whilst also pouring ginger beer.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This French answer to the vodka-based Moscow Mule uses cognac to make a more robustly flavoured, long, refreshing drink.

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History:

A variation on the Moscow Mule.

Nutrition:

One serving of French Mule contains 200 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
9.14% alc./vol. (9.14° proof)
14.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Chris Brislawn

2nd September 2023 at 02:32

This calls for a cognac with a spicy-woody profile; I used Braastad XO. Following J. Guerrero I used 1/4 oz ginger syrup instead of plain sugar syrup. Experimented with Bittermens Elemakule Tiki Bitters instead of Angostura and garnished with lime zest and slice of pickled ginger. Agree this is more interesting and flavorful than the Moscow Mule.

Asher Günther

23rd April 2023 at 08:06

Surely it should be a Paris Mule, non?

Kasperi Ekqvist

10th September 2022 at 16:59

A more flavorful Moscow Mule. What a simple, great, refreshing drink. Will definitely go on my go-to list of drinks to make at home.

Jonathan Cope

22nd January 2021 at 18:30

Better than a Moscow Mule, the Cognac works with the ginger. I usually add less sugar syrup for cocktails, but this amount worked well, but that depends on how sweet you ginger beer is.