Why you are pouring this tonight
The Apple Cider Mule is the Mule for the four weeks of the year that sit between the last warm afternoon and the first cold one, when the eucalypts are dropping bark and you can wear a jumper but not yet a coat. Vodka, cloudy apple cider (not apple juice, the difference matters), fresh lemon, cold ginger beer, cinnamon stick stirring stick, apple slice on the rim. Tastes like a long Sunday afternoon in Mount Macedon when the kids are asleep on the couch.
Use a cloudy apple cider from a small Tasmanian or NSW orchard producer (Willie Smith’s, Small Acres, Hillbilly). The cloudiness is real fruit, real pectin, real depth. Skip the supermarket apple juice; it tastes like the back of a dental waiting room. Build over crushed ice in a copper mug. Cold real ginger beer to top. Cinnamon stick and apple slice to garnish, both essential. Pair with roast pork shoulder, apple crumble, a wedge of blue cheese on a slate at the end of dinner.
What to pour it alongside
Roast pork, apple crumble, blue cheese on a toast.
Notes
Use a real cloudy apple cider, not apple juice. The cloudiness comes from real fruit and gives the drink texture.
The recipe
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