Mule Mug Tattoo 420ml, Decorated Glass (Pack of 4)

For anyone serving coloured mules who wants them seen. The modern versions of the drink work with craft ginger beers, red fruit, citrus and syrups that give the glass colours which simply disappear in a metal mug. In glass the drink shows, and on a list of variations that changes how the guest chooses.

They are two different services, not two grades of the same one. Metal gives the frost on the outside, the cold felt in the hand and the historical nod to a drink of the forties; glass gives the sight of the contents and the chance to layer, garnish and show the work. Anyone serving the classic mule picks copper; anyone who has built a section of variations keeps both and chooses by the recipe. Glass also goes through the dishwasher without trouble, which in a high volume venue is not a detail.

• Capacity: 420ml
• Material: decorated glass
• Range: Tattoo
• Pack quantity: 4 mugs
• Use: mules and coloured variations, long drinks on ice

Choose the Tattoo 420ml if

You serve coloured versions of the mule and you want the colour to show. For the classic mule served as tradition has it, the plated copper mug stays the correct and recognisable choice.

Four hundred and twenty millilitres and the ice

As with every mug, the stated capacity is not the working capacity: with ice to the rim the real liquid sits around 200 to 220ml. Glass, unlike metal, does not chill in seconds and does not frost, so generous ice counts for even more here: it is the only thing keeping the drink cold, because the wall does not help the way copper would.

The Tattoo engraving

It is the same family of engraving that runs across the old fashioned glasses, tumblers, coupes and stemmed glasses in the catalogue, applied to a different format. For anyone already holding other Tattoo pieces it means adding the mule mug without breaking the consistency of the glassware, which in a room in full view is what separates a service that was planned from one assembled piece by piece.

Decorated glass and the wash

This is the operational advantage that weighs most in the choice between glass and metal. The Tattoo 420ml goes into the dishwasher with everything else, while copper mugs are washed by hand and dried straight away. In a venue doing numbers, the Tattoo goes back into service in one cycle while a copper mug takes a member of staff a minute a piece: multiplied across an evening, that is time worth having.

Care

Dishwasher with no trouble, and that is the main practical advantage over metal mugs. Rinse the engraving before the cycle when you have worked with thick syrups or muddled fruit, because the relief holds sugar.

FAQ

Is the Tattoo 420ml a real mule mug? It is made for the same drink, in glass instead of metal: the effect changes, the use does not.

Does it frost like copper? No, glass does not carry the cold the way metal does: here generous ice counts for even more.

Is it dishwasher safe? Yes, and that is its practical advantage over copper mugs.

Why a pack of four? It is a format for variations on the list, not for the main service.

Is it from the same range as the other Tattoo pieces? Yes, the same family of engraving on a different format.

The more you buy, the less you pay: 4 packs -5%, 6 -7%, 8 -10%, on the same item.

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For a comparison of glass and metal, there is the Moscow Mule mug guide.