Category: mini menu

4 cups Strawberries (sliced)

1 cup Sugar

8 cups of cold water

1 Lime, cut into 8 wedges

8 sprigs of mint

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Add the strawberries, sugar and one cup of water to a large bowl; stir to combine

Cover with plastic wrap and let sit in fridge for 4 hours

Pour mixture into a blender or use an immersion blender and blend until smooth

Using a large fine mesh strainer, pour the mixture through into a large bowl

Add remaining 7 cups of water to the strawberry mixture and stir to combine

Fill glass with ice and pour in strawberry water

Garnish with lime wedge and mint

Source: All Recipes Mexican Strawberry Water

Blueberry Gin and Tonic

In the search for a blue or purple drink, I came upon this twist on the gin and tonic. Making syrups is not nearly as hard as you might think (spoiler: it’s boiling water, sugar and blueberries). The simple glass build was also interesting, saving lots of mess.

You can also add this to lemonade to make a tasty mocktail (that will probably appear in the mocktail library one of these days).

Cheers!

1oz Blueberry Syrup (recipe below)

3oz Plymouth Gin

Top with Tonic Water

Garnish with Lime and Blueberries

For Syrup:

0.5 cup sugar

0.5 cup water

1 cup fresh blueberries

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Blueberry Syrup Build

Put everything in a pan and bring to simmer on the stove

Cook until the sugar is dissolved and the blueberries are mushy (stirring often)

Remove from heat and allow to cool

Use a strainer to filter into a bottle

Build cocktail in the glass!

Fill high ball glass with ice

Add syrup and gin

Top with Tonic Water

Squeeze a little lime and garnish with Lime wedge and blueberries

The Final Say

If you enjoy a “Last Word” but can’t find Green Chartreuse, we highly recommend this cocktail as an alternative. We modified the original recipe a fair amount, so you might need to as well. The Violete can quickly overpower the drink, so experiment and start lighter. And stick with a mild gin like Plymouth or Old Tom.

Cheers!

1oz Plymouth Gin

1oz Maraschino Liqueur

1oz Fresh Lime Juice

0.75oz Creme de Violete

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Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker

Add ice and shake for 10 seconds

Double strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass

Source: Can’t recall the original source, but the ratios were modified by BC

Cadbury Creme Egg Cocktail

Ok. This one is ridiculous. That is not a secret. But while searching for “Easter Cocktails” this thing was impossible not to come across. There were several different options. This one did not require melting chocolate on a stove, so it seemed more accessible. It looks complicated, but it really isn’t when you get into the recipe.

Don’t use chocolate syrup!! You need the thickness of a recently melted chocolate to get the smooth garnish on the outside of the glass. Trust me, I tried the shortcut on a different cocktail, and it was a giant mess!! 10 seconds burst, stir, and do it again till it’s melted.

It’s a sweet monster, so brace yourself. But it’s also a showstopper if you’re having a gathering this holiday weekend. Cheers!

This recipe is for TWO COCKTAILS!!

0.25 cup Milk Chocolate (for melting and grating)

3 tablespoons Sweetened Condensed Milk

0.75 cup Half and Half

2.5oz Creme de Cocoa

1.5oz Vodka

Yellow and Red Food Coloring

Top with Seltzer

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Melt Chocolate in the microwave 10 seconds at a time, stirring between (took us 40 seconds to melt it all)

Coat the edges of two coupe glasses with melted chocolate. Shake glass to prevent drip. Transfer glass to freezer

In a bowl, mix one drop of yellow food coloring with sweetened condensed milk

Stir until yellow. Add a tiny dash of red to the mixture and stir until orange

Pull glass out of freezer and add half of the mixture to the bottom of each glass

In a cocktail shaker, add creme de cocoa, vodka, and half and half

Add ice and shake for 10 seconds

Double strain mixture into each glass, leaving roughly an inch for seltzer and garnish

Top glass with seltzer and grate chocolate across the top

Garnish with half of a Cadbury Creme Egg, skewered on a cocktail pin (don’t poke it, spin it)

Source: Delish Cadbury Creme Egg Cocktail Recipe

Easter 2024 – Mini Menu is Up!!

As we head into Holy Week, the Runaway Anchor has you covered. Head over to the Mini Menu section to check out three tasty cocktails and one refreshing mocktail.

This will be the last Mini Menu available on the Runaway Anchor website, as we will be moving all of our mini and specialty menus to our Patreon Members (all tiers!) starting in May. Our first speciality menu is a double menu dedicated to the tv show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine! Coming in early May!!

For now, whether you’re a church goer or an egg hunter, Happy Easter!!

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The Rattle Skull

We couldn’t have a menu, even a mini-menu, without recognizing our “Runaway Anchor Godfather, Anders Erickson. So we present a cocktail from year ago, but worthy of the season.

Our final St. Patricks Day cocktail features what could arguably be called the “national drink” for the holiday, Guinness. For this drink you’ll be mixing a cocktail in a shaker (there’s lime juice, so no stirring this one), and then pouring it into the glass full of beer.

If you’re using a standard pint glass, you’ll be able to add the entire can of Guinness before topping off with the liquor elements. Make sure not to skip the grated nutmeg, as you want every sip to have that aroma in the mix. Grating actual nutmeg is preferred, but also not as easy to find as the stuff on the spice section of Target. So do what you must, but don’t skip that nutmeg garnish! Cheers!

12oz Guinness (we divert from Ander’s recipe, calling for Founder’s Porter)

1oz Jamaican Rum (we use Mount Gay)

1oz Cognac (or Brandy if you’re in a pinch)

0.75oz Fresh Lime Juice

0.5oz Demerara Syrup

Garnish with grated nutmeg

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Pour the beer into a large pint style glass, leaving 1 inch for additional liquor

In a shaking tin, add the remaining ingredients

Add ice and shake for 10 seconds

Strain (or double strain if you hate ice chips like me) into the prepared beer glass

Once the foam as settled, grate nutmeg on the top, generously!

Source: Ander Erickson Rattle Skull Recipe

GingerLocks

No St Patrick’s Day would be complete without a ginger ale or ginger beer based drink. This one requires a very specific whiskey. RedLocks is a Minnesota made Irish whiskey, and it’s worth checking out if you can find it. For locals it’s easy to snag, so go grab a bottle this weekend and try out this Irish cocktail! It’s worth noting that RedLocks is a milder Irish whiskey, if you’re used to drinking Jameson. But a good smooth.

Local should stop by Kierans Pub in Minneapolis, if you get a chance, where the GingerLocks was invented, and is always on the menu!! Cheers!

2oz Red Locks Irish Whiskey

1oz Ginger Ale

Garnish with lime wedge

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Fill Collins glass with ice

Add whiskey and top off with Ginger Ale

Garnish with Lime wedge

Source: Red Locks GingerLocks recipe

Our first MiniMenu for St Patrick’s Day!!

We’ve updated our “menu list” to include a sneak peak of an upcoming Patreon Perk: Mini Menus! This one is for St. Patrick’s Day. More will come in the future, and starting in May it will be for Patreon Members Only.

We also updated our “Standards” menu, and made it “The Keepers“, listing our favorite cocktails and mocktails from past seasonal menus and cocktail parties in general. Enjoy!

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The Gunpowder of Middle Earth

Another amazing cocktail name. We must believe somewhere in Middle Earth they grew kiwi plants, right?! Perhaps not in the Shire or Helm’s Deep. But the sunny parts that weren’t found in the Hobbit or the Ring Trilogy. Well, geeky rant aside, this one is pretty fun.

You’ll be muddling the green fruit for this one, so get a muddler if you don’t already have one. You might also have noticed the name “Gunpowder” in the name. That’s not a flavor, it’s a BRAND. Don’t spoil this cocktail with Beefeater or even Hendriks. Get a good bottle of Gunpowder IRISH Gin, and enjoy every last drop in this cocktail and any others you make. Cheers!

1.5oz Gunpowder Irish Gin

0.5oz Fresh Kiwi (peedled and cubed)

0.5oz Fresh Lemon Juice

0.5oz Simple Syrup

1 kiwi slice for garnish

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Add the kiwi to a cocktail shaker and muddle into a paste

Add remaining ingredients to the cocktail shaker

Add ice and shake for 12-15 seconds

Double strain into a chilled coupe

Garnish with a slice of kiwi

Source: Palm Bay International cocktail recipe

Midori Sour

One of the first cocktail I ever had over twenty years ago was the Midori Sour. It’s an often teased drink, but for this St Patrick’s Day, let’s give it a shot.

Here’s the key to a good Midori Sour, do not, I repeat, DO NOT use “sweet and sour mix”. One shot of midori and two shot of that does not a good cocktail make! You have to juice a lemon and a lime to get a good drink here, so do the work!

The vodka shot is extra, if you want a little extra kick in your melon flavored drink. I don’t make them often anymore, but the taste brings me back, and perhaps it might be the same way for you. Cheers!

1.5oz Midori Melon Liqueur

1oz Vodka

0.5oz Fresh Lemon Juice

0.5oz Fresh Lime Juice

3oz Club Soda (or lemon lime soda if you want it sweeter)

Here’s a link for a hand juicer, if you don’t have one.