Name: Washington's Applejack Mule
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Applejack brandy bottled-in-bond (50% alc./vol); 15 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 3 Angostura or other aromatic bitters; 105 ml Ginger beer

Serve in a

Collins glass

Garnish:

Lime or apple wedge

How to make:

SHAKE first three ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with ginger beer and lightly stir.

1 1/2 fl oz	Applejack brandy bottled-in-bond (50% alc./vol)
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
3 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
3 1/2 fl oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Beer
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Review:

Take a Moscow Mule and make with apple brandy in place of vodka and you've a Washington's Applejack Mule. Tasty – arguably tastier than a Moscow Mule.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2017 by Jamie Boudreau at Canon, Seattle, USA.

A detailed history of the Moscow Mule cocktail, of which this drink is a variant, can be found on our page.

More cocktails by Jamie Boudreau

Nutrition:

One serving of Washington's Applejack Mule contains 150 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
11.14% alc./vol. (22.28° proof)
18.5 grams of pure alcohol

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