Eugene’s Collegiate Moscow Mules

There is only one true god of cocktails. Nothing quite like a mix of ginger beer, a dash of lime juice and vodka gets my hand eagerly drawing back the copper tumbler to my mouth.

But what is the best one in Eugene? I had to go to the source, and who drinks more than anybody else? College students. “Max’s makes a pretty good mule, I gotta say,” University of Oregon student Dylan Luna tells me, “I think it’s better than Rennies.”

UO student Lupita “Pita” Ruiz concurs. “At Rennies it tastes like juice, but at Max’s it tastes better,” she says.

So I began my quest, taking a light stroll to Rennie’s Landing to test out those claims.

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