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Jamaican Mule cocktail

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Jamaican Mule

A refreshing and sweet cocktail with dark rum, lime juice, and ginger beer.

Base
Rum
Difficulty
Easy
Strength
Light
Origin
Jamaica

Ingredients

Steps

  1. Fill a Highball Glass with ice.
  2. Add Rum (Dark), Lime Juice, and Simple Syrup.
  3. Top with Ginger Beer.
  4. Stir.
  5. Garnish with a Lime Wedge.

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About the Jamaican Mule

The Jamaican Mule is a sweet and light cocktail, combining the boldness of dark rum with the tartness of lime juice and the fizzy spice of ginger beer. This drink is a variation of the traditional Moscow Mule, offering a twist with dark rum for a deeper, richer flavor.

Similar drinks

How this compares

  • Dark 'N' Stormy

    Like the Jamaican Mule, but uses dark rum and ginger beer, without lime juice, giving it a richer flavor.

  • Moscow Mule

    Uses vodka instead of rum, but keeps the ginger beer and lime juice, making it a crisp alternative to the Jamaican Mule.

  • Mai Tai

    Uses rum as the base but adds lime, orange liqueur, and orgeat syrup, offering a more complex tropical profile than the Jamaican Mule's simpler combination of rum, lime, and ginger beer.

  • Hurricane

    A rum-based drink with more fruitiness and sweetness from passion fruit and grenadine, offering a different but complementary tropical vibe to the Jamaican Mule.

  • Tequila Sunrise

    Swaps rum for tequila and uses orange juice and grenadine, providing a sweeter and fruitier profile compared to the Jamaican Mule's tartness.

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