![]() 1,5 oz of premium vodka like the Grey Goose.The Fever-Tree Ginger Beer is made with three types of real ginger, giving it a distinct, fiery flavour that is perfect for a Moscow Mule cocktail. There’s no camouflaging of poor quality here. Its simplicity also means each ingredient is of equal importance. The second thing to mention is that it is such a simple cocktail. If you don’t happen to have a copper mug to hand, an enamelware mug works well too, but we won’t pass judgement if your home-bar only has more typical drinking receptacles – a glass will do just fine. Sipping from a copper mug will not only chill your lips, but your hands too, making the drink seem much colder than it would served in a regular glass. This is a drink served as icy cold as the streets of Moscow in winter. This has very little to do with flavour and a lot to do with copper’s properties as an excellent heat conductor. Firstly, cocktail aficionados will insist that it must be served in a copper mug for the authentic drinking experience. There are a couple of things you should know about the Moscow Mule. the New York-born cocktail is aptly named for its spirit and icy-cold exterior. It’s not bad - it’s just not worth the extra cash compared to buying a two-liter of Coca-Cola.Misleadingly, the Moscow Mule didn’t originate in russia. This approaches that taste, but lacks the vanilla creaminess that makes the local craft soda legendary. In Wisconsin we’ve got Sprecher, who makes a clacker of a root beer but their Puma Kola is somehow even better. It finishes better than it starts, getting a little more sugary as the drink goes on but never overwhelmingly so. It’s not as good as Coke but has that real sugar sweetness that makes the tail end of each sip sweetly sing a warning of tomorrow morning’s hangover. So, Fever-Tree, let’s see how you do with a distillery’s that just “kinda good.” In fact, last week’s College Football Cocktail lauded it as pretty much the ideal mixing whiskey (that also holds up OK on its own). Scotch especially, since I haven’t been able to find a bottle of Blanton’s in years and have no interest in paying $150 for a pretty good $50 bourbon.Īnyway, those “finest” spirits don’t get mixed. ![]() The label says “crafted for whiskeys and rums from the finest distilleries.” That’s dumb, right? One thing I’m flush with right now is very good whiskey. I could drink a lot of these in a very short amount of time. It’s sweet and sour and very easy to drink, even if the sparkling carbonation doesn’t really come through. The mixer really does take over and make this kinda great. For a grapefruit drink it finishes dry and sweet, like a sudden final drop on a roller coaster you assumed was over. It’s cumbersome and doesn’t really fit well in my liquor cabinet, but at least it looks sort of cool!Ī generous pour blends pretty seamlessly with the grapefruit, and the acidic citrus washes out the spirit and any burn that might come with it. That’s Ocean organic vodka, which comes from Hawai’i in a blue globe bottle. ![]() Since Fever-Tree advertises itself as a premium mixer I felt it necessary to swap out my standard Costco vodka - which is pretty good, no judgment here - for the fanciest bottle I currently have. Bless you, Fever-Tree, for understanding I am a simple, stupid man uninterested in taking multiple steps to punish my liver. I looked up cocktail recipes for Fever-Tree and this is the first one that came up. They aren’t cheap, so the question remained: would the (actual) juice be worth the (figurative) squeeze? So I set out to see if their 6.8 ounce bottles made a difference. They’re fancy and small and raise an interesting point: if your drink is mostly mixer, why use a mixer that sucks (with all due respect to the fine folks at RC Cola and Faygo)? RC Cola? Faygo? Not a problem.īut a few weeks back we had a houseguest who brought Fever-Tree’s cocktail mixers with him. So help me, it does so, so well), but when it comes to juices or colas I’m happy to use whatever bargain brand is nearby. Sure, there are the standard concerns about caffeine and booze or whether whipped cream vodka pairs with Mountain Dew (it does. I have, for the entirety of my drinking life, not given a crap about what I mix my alcohol with. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series.
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