Brown Sugar and Roasted Pineapple Moscow Mule Recipe

Pin Share Tweet Yum Stumble While I’ve made a variation on a traditional cocktail with this Brown Sugar and Roasted Pineapple Moscow Mule, the story of the original Moscow Mule is a simple one and it’s all about the vodka. Many years ago, vodka was not a popular liquor in American cocktails; often referred to in a very derogatory way and Americans joked that the word vodka was Russian for horrible. In 1939, John Martin had recently purchased the US rights to a French brand, Smirnoff, and it wasn’t selling as no one was drinking One afternoon he was lamenting his bad luck to a bar owner who had a similar problem with ginger beer. As luck would have it a third party to this momentous occasion had an abundance of copper mugs he couldn’t…