Ingredients

  • 2 ozkava spirit
  • ½ ozfresh lime juice
  • 1 ozpineapple juice
  • 4 ozginger beer
  • 3 dashesnon alcoholic bitters
  • 🍋lime wheel and fresh mint(garnish)

🔧 Tools

cocktail shakerjiggerbar spoon

Instructions

  1. Combine kava spirit, fresh lime juice, pineapple juice, and non-alcoholic bitters in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
  2. Shake briefly — 6 to 8 seconds — just to chill and combine.
  3. Fill a copper mule mug with fresh cubed ice.
  4. Strain the shaken mixture over the ice in the mug.
  5. Top with 4 oz of ginger beer and stir once gently.
  6. Garnish with a lime wheel and a fresh mint bouquet and serve immediately.

📜 History

The Kava Mule adapts the classic Moscow Mule format for kava spirit, swapping vodka for a kava-based non-alcoholic spirit that provides a mild, calming effect from kavalactones — the active compounds in kava root. The drink was developed and popularized by All The Bitter (allthebitter.com), a zero-proof bar and retail operation in California, where it became a best-selling house cocktail. Kava Haven also published an official Kava Mule on their recipe hub. Multiple independent NA cocktail publications documented the recipe across 2024 and 2025 as kava spirits entered mainstream NA retail.

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