The Moscow Mule was invented in Manhattan but has been popular on the West Coast for a while. "Little Moscow" was invented at the Chatham Hotel in New York. The Violet family was instrumental in the popularity of Cock'n'Bull ginger beer in New York in 1941. There were three friends at Chatham Bar, one was John A. Morgan, known as Jack, president of Cock'n'Bull Products and owner of the Cock'n'Bull restaurant in Hollywood; the other was in Connecticut John G. Martin, president of G.F. Heublein Brothers in Hartford, and the third was Rudolf Kunnett, president of Crown Smirnoff, the vodka division of Heublein. As Jack Morgan said: "The three of us were drinking and eating appetizers while thinking of genius ideas". Martin and Cunette were obsessed with their vodka and wondered what would happen if two ounces were mixed with Morgan's ginger beer and lemon juice. So they ordered ice cubes, bought lemons, brought in cups, and mixed the ingredients together. The men raised their cups and counted five, then began to taste. The drink is delicious, and it gives an adventurous spirit. Four or five days later, the drink was named the Moscow Mule.
The story has been known for many years, however in 2007 a new version of the story about the invention of the Moscow Mule was published. In this version, the inventor of the cocktail is Wes Price, Morgan's head bartender, and the drink was born out of a need to clean out the bar's cellar, which at the time was full of unsold stock, including vodka and ginger beer.
Eric Felton quotes Wes Price in a 2007 Wall Street Journal article
"I just wanted to clear the basement," Price tells the story of creating the Moscow Mule. "I'm trying to clear a lot of long inventory." His first drink was for actor Broderick Crawford. "It went viral like wildfire," Price boasted. [8]
Moscow mules are usually served in copper cups. The popularity of this drinking vessel is due to Martin, who traveled across the United States to promote Smirnoff vodka and popularize the Moscow mule. Martin asked the bartenders to pose with special copper mugs and a bottle of Smirnoff vodka and take a Polaroid photo of them. He took two pictures and left one for the bartender to show. Another photo was kept as a testament to the popularity of the Moscow Mule as a testament to Martin's next visit to the bar. To this day, the copper mug remains a popular mule for the Moscow Mule.
According to a 1942 Hollywood Insider article, the Moscow Mule is most popular in Los Angeles, its birthplace. The October 12, 1943 Nevada State Journal reported that the Moscow Mule's popularity was enhanced, "The Moscow Mule has become one of the few most popular cocktails." It became the favorite drink of Reno casino owner William F. Harrah. In Edward O. Thorpe's book Beating the Dealer, the casino where he thought he was treated badly as a poker player at the Tagus River Casino was not named. Instead he wrote: "I immediately drank a Moscow mule," subtly alluding to the location of the Tagus in Harrah, as Harrah's penchant for the drink was well known at the time.
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