The Best Blackberry Bourbon Moscow Mule

Or as we have fondly started calling it, the B²M². What can I say, I’m the wife AND the daughter of engineers! Although this is about as advanced as my math gets these days, somehow the math gene skipped me?!

This recipe is bursting with simple, amazing flavors; with smokey bourbon, sweet fresh blackberries, fresh lime juice and bubbly Ginger Beer.

It’s super simple and using fresh or even frozen blackberries, it’s oh so very summery (or fall, winter or springy!)!

Start by tossing in 4-5 fresh, ripe blackberries into the bottom of a copper mule mug (or a chilled old fashioned, pour in your bourbon or whisky and using a muddler; muddle your fruit with the bourbon.

How Do you Muddle Something?

Basically simply translates into — smashing the fruit gently with a muddler, releasing the flavors to help it better bind with the alcohol. Well, don’t just sit there, start your muddlin’!

Then, if desired, take a few sprigs of mint and do the same thing, don’t muddle too hard, you don’t want the bitterness of the mint to be expressed, just the sweetness.

Squeeze in the juice from half a lime into the glass.

Fill the glass/cup with crushed ice; we don’t have that function on our ice maker, so I just toss some ice cubes in a freezer baggie and get out my daily frustrations on the ice with a rolling pin = therapy and crushed ice for the WIN!

Then pour some Ginger Beer and give it a gentle stir to bring up the lovely purple from the blackberries.

Garnish with a wedge of lime, a few fresh or frozen blackberries, and a sprig of mint, serve immediately!

If you enjoyed this cocktail/mocktail, please give these others a try.

• Grapefruit Basil Vodka Smash
• Mint Julep
• Blood Orange, Tangerine & Thyme Gin & Tonic
• Cherry Bomb