Name: El Burro
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Reposado tequila; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 3 dash Aromatic bitters; 90 ml Ginger beer

El Burro
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Glass:

Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
2 fl oz	Patrón Reposado tequila
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
3 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
3 fl oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Beer

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime slice wheel.

How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring ginger beer.

Garnish:

Garnish with lime wheel.

Review:

Ginger spice and tequila soured with lime.

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AKA: Mexican Mule

Variations/similar cocktails:

Mexican Mule

History:

Created by Henry Besant and Andres Masso, London, England. The name of this tequila-based version of the Moscow Mule translates from Spanish as 'The Donkey'.

More cocktails by Henry Besant

Nutrition:

One serving of El Burro contains 212 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
10.35% alc./vol. (20.71° proof)
19.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Adrianne

9th August at 08:11

I made this using Goslings peach ginger beer and replaced the lime juice with lemon juice. Loved it a lot, but I would definitely skip the sugar, Goslings is too sweet to add sugar to.

Honestly I avoid adding sugar to most mules/bucks anyway, the only ginger beer I've had that isn't on its own sweet enough to carry these drinks is the sugar free Goslings and I GUESS Fever Tree but even for that one I would use less sugar.

Alexandre Lockfeld

6th February 2024 at 01:50

I made this in the tradition copper mug using Fever Tree ginger beer and no extra sugar syrup. It was sweet enough but needed something extra and a splash of Cointreau did the trick for me! Very nice.