Nothing Beets A Mule

Crafted using green chile vodka, beet shrub, ginger, and lime, this libation is a cool new twist on a classic using one of the winter’s most popular and colorful vegetables: beets!

“This drink came about to utilize a product I had sitting around since we stopped our brunch service: green chile vodka. It’s great in a bloody mary, and we had a few bottles still hanging around. After I tasted the beet shrub, it had this earthy quality to it that I felt would go really nicely with the vegetal notes in the green chile vodka. A mule is a familiar cocktail that allows guests to feel more at ease going outside their comfort zone since they already know the format and what it will, more or less, taste like,” says partner and General Manager Nick Hassiotis, of Foundation Social Eatery, Alpharetta, GA.

Photo by Nick Hassiotis

Vodka

Nothing Beets A Mule

Ingredients

• 2 oz. St George Green Chile Vodka
• ½ oz. Beet Shrub*
• ½ oz. Lime Juice
• 3-6 oz. Ginger Beer, to fill

Preparation

1. Place vodka, shrub, and lime juice into a glass (copper mug if you want to be more traditional… but with the color being so pretty, we recommend a Collins glass!).
2. Add ice to fill.
3. Fill with ginger beer and stir to incorporate.
4. Garnish with metal pick with beet cubes and crystallized ginger.

*Beet Shrub Recipe

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Ingredients

• 105g Diced Raw Beets
• 70g White Sugar
• 40g White Vinegar

Preparation

1. Place items into a mason jar.
2. Place the jar in a container with an immersion circulator.
3. Fill the container with enough water so that the waterline is above the ingredients inside the jar.
4. Sous vide at 150F for 2 hours.
5. Strain beets from shrub.
6. Bottle shrub.
7. Reserve beets for garnish.