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It’s Been A Long Week: Mr. Purple’s Bottled​ ​Moscow​ ​Mule

Image: Essential Homme, Mr. Purple.

As true believers of the work hard, play hard mantra, we present you with It’s Been a Long Week, a weekly column aimed at awarding some liquid appreciation to you for just being yourself, dammit. Make a glass or two on us, you deserve it.

WHAT

Mr. Purple’s Bottled​ ​Moscow​ ​Mule
It’s been said that good things take time. Point and case? Mr. Purple, the long-awaited, pool-equipped, bar and restaurant that sits sexily smack in the middle of the brand new Hotel Indigo Lower East Side in New York. Proof with even more fun: the trendy spot’s Bottled Moscow Mule, an infectious and fresh citrus update on the classic vodka cocktail, given just a bit more time to percolate.

HOW

Ingredients:

  • 3​ ​oz. Water
  • 1.75​ ​oz. Stolichnaya​ Vodka
  • 0.75oz. Simple​ ​syrup​ ​
  • 0​.5​ ​oz. Fresh​ ​ginger​ ​​juice
  • 3/8 oz. Fresh​ ​lime​ ​juice​ ​

Image: Essential Homme, Boxed Water Is Better, STIRRINGS, Stolichnaya​ Vodka

THEN

Combine​ ​ingredients,​ ​chill,​ ​and​ ​carbonate.​ ​Bottle​ ​in​ ​187ml​ ​glass​ ​bottles. Cap​ ​and​ ​refrigerate​.​