how to make a melbourne mule

I stumbled across a recipe for a Melbourne Mule – a cocktail made with kiwi fruit and ginger beer – in the Nobu Miami cookbook, and it looked pretty interesting. I had never heard of it before, so asked an ex-South African now living in Melbourne if this was a big thing over there. Apparently it is not.

A quick Google and I landed on a little bike cafe in Melbourne, but no cocktail. You get a Moscow Mule, a Mexican Mule and even a Christmas Mule, but no Melbourne Mule. 

This is what Google said about a Mule (in general):

1. mule cocktail

   Web definitions

   1. Buck, and also mule, are slightly antiquated names for a family of historic mixed drinks that involve ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and any of a number of base liquors. Variations include: ?Rum buck, also called a Jamaica buck or Barbados buck to indicate the origin of the rum. …

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_(cocktail)

So I took the gap, and here goes. Maybe this will be the first Melbourne Mule on the interwebz. 

Kiwi’s are in session and I love to eat them straight out he skin with a spoon. They are packed with vitamins so this cocktail has some nutrition too. You have to balance things outright?

I used whole ice cubes instead of crushed. Crushed would definitely have been better. I should also have muddled the kiwi a bit more, I found the pieces were a little too big to suck through a straw.

I used rum as per the recipe but think tequila would work well too.

Recipe- makes 1 cocktail:

• 1 kiwi fruit, peeled and cut up
• 1 – 2 tots of white rum (however much you want to add)
• dash of Angostura bitters
• Ginger beer to top up the drink ( I used a good quality one)
• crushed ice to fill the glass
• orange peel to garnish

Muddle the kiwi fruit in a tall glass until its nice and smooth. Put the rum, bitters and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake.  Pour this over the fruit, mix and top up with ginger beer and more ice if necessary. Add the orange peel as garnish.

Cheers!

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• Quite continental
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• Taste.com.au 

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