{"id":4121,"date":"2013-02-05T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2013-02-05T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T03:33:08","slug":"what-im-drinking-now-maple-mule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=4121","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Drinking Now: Maple Mule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after I posted a tweet two weeks ago about having won the Crown Maple shot competition, one of my best friends sent me a text with a picture of what he was drinking that night. More than apropos, it was a Crown Maple based Moscow Mule.\u00c2\u00a0 A Maple Mule, if you will.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG951829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4122 aligncenter\" alt=\"Maple Mule\" src=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG951829-375x500.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG951829-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG951829-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG951829.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The drink sounded great, so tonight I whipped up my own version and I&#8217;m loving it.<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Maple Mule<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1 1\/2 oz Vodka<\/strong>\r\n<strong>1\/2 oz Crown Royal Maple Finished<\/strong>\r\n<strong>1\/2 Lime<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Ginger Beer<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1) Combine vodka and Crown Maple in a glass with ice<\/strong>\r\n<strong>2) Squeeze in the half lime and drop in<\/strong>\r\n<strong>3) Top with ginger beer<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>The maple aroma and flavor are light and subtle and play really well with the lime and ginger flavors. The drink isn&#8217;t overly sweet and goes down very easily.\u00c2\u00a0 The copper mug is optional but awesome if you can pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>A very deep hat tip to <a title=\"Chris Conrey\" href=\"http:\/\/chrisconrey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conrey<\/a> for bringing this drink to my attention and for the great picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after I posted a tweet two weeks ago about having won the Crown Maple shot competition, one of my best friends sent me a text with a picture of what he was drinking that night. More than apropos, it was a Crown Maple based Moscow Mule.\u00c2\u00a0 A Maple Mule, if you will. The drink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,53],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-recipe","tag-vodka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}