Mexican Mule

Name: Mexican Mule
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 2 oz blanco or reposado tequila; 1 oz fresh lime juice; 3 to 4 dashes Angostura bitters; Ginger beer, to top

The Moscow Mule with agave instead of vodka, and several dashes of Angostura to give the ginger something to work against. Works with either a blanco or a reposado, and they make genuinely different drinks.

4 ingredients5 minutesMule mugLime wheel and mint sprig

Ingredients

2 oz blanco or reposado tequila

1 oz fresh lime juice

3 to 4 dashes Angostura bitters

Ginger beer, to top

Method

Fill a copper mug with ice and build the tequila and lime in it.
Add the bitters.
Top with ginger beer and stir once.
Garnish with a lime wheel and a mint sprig.

Panel note

Blanco keeps it sharp and green against the ginger; reposado rounds the whole thing and pushes it toward autumn. Neither is the right answer, but decide before you pour rather than using whatever is open.