Copper mug
Copper chills quickly and keeps a mule-style drink feeling especially cold at the rim and in the hand.
- Capacity
- 350–500 ml11¾–17 oz
- Typical pour
- 150 ml5 oz
- How it’s served
- A long drink, over a full glass of ice
- In this collection
- 3 cocktails
Why this shape
Copper conducts heat roughly twenty times better than glass. That cuts both ways and both ways are useful: the mug drops to the drink's temperature almost immediately, and then the outside of it feels as cold as the inside, so the drink reads colder in the hand than the same liquid in a tumbler.
Getting it cold
The mug chills itself the moment ice goes in. Do not put a lined copper mug in the freezer for long — condensation gets under the lining.
The usual mistake
Buying unlined copper. Copper reacts with acidic ingredients, and a mule is lime juice; food-safe mugs are lined with nickel or stainless steel on the inside.
No copper mug? Use this instead
Use a highball glass if you do not have a copper mug.
Cocktails served in it
3 in all, pouring between 150–195 ml5–6½ oz.
