Buck (cocktail)

Variations

• Bourbon, rye, or whiskey buck
• Kentucky Buck, containing bourbon and strawberry.
• Gin buck, containing gin. Sometimes known as British Buck or London Buck.
• Gin Gin Mule, containing gin and mint. Also known as a Ginger Rogers
• Irish buck, containing Irish whiskey
• Mamie Taylor, containing scotch whisky.
• Rum buck, also called a Barbados buck or Jamaican buck to indicate the origin of the rum. Adding lime to a Dark 'N' Stormy creates a rum buck.
• Shanghai buck, made with light rum.
• Vodka buck, also known as a Moscow mule, invented in Los Angeles, California, and largely responsible for the popularity of vodka in the United States from the 1940s through 1960s.
• Chilcano, made with Pisco.
• Variations using brandy and other liquors
• Addition of syrups, different types of juice, fresh ginger, mint, and various garnishes

  In popular culture

• In the Better Call Saul season 2 episode, "Bali H'ai", Schweikart, a founding partner of Kim Wexler's opposing firm, treats her to an upscale lunch to recruit her, orders a Moscow Mule in a copper mug, and offers her one, too. She declines both the mid-day drink, which she calls "vintage", and the job offer, but tacitly acknowledges Schweikart's message that the freedom to drink during a working lunch symbolizes the firm's larger offer of freedom to "spread her wings", in a firm unlike HHM's restrictive, unsupportive environment. Later that evening, Kim orders herself a Moscow Mule at a bar, and then calls Jimmy to help her fleece a philanderer who is hitting on her.