Summer Menu coming soon!!
1st Specialty Menu (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) – Coming May 11th!!
Here’s a little teaser for our first “specialty menu”. We’ve put together a collection of cocktails based on the characters of the show “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”, including a fun game to see if you can guess the character behind each cocktail!
This menu will only be available to Patreon members!! So, if you aren’t a member already, it’s a good time to hop on board HERE.
NINE-NINE!!!!
The Resurrection (aka Agua de Fresa)
We took some liberties with the re-naming. What was intended to be a hangover cure with the Resurrection name, turned into a mocktail. This was mainly because all hangover cures are either boring (hydrate), gross (drink pickle juice), or weird (rub lemon on armpits). No thank you.
This refreshing mocktail is sure to be a hit by the glass or by the punchbowl. Just make sure to give yourself plenty of time for the strawberries to steep in the sugar water.
Cheers! And Happy Easter!
4 cups Strawberries (sliced)
1 cup Sugar
8 cups of cold water
1 Lime, cut into 8 wedges
8 sprigs of mint
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
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!
1 oz Blueberry Syrup (recipe below)
3 oz Plymouth Gin
Top with Tonic Water
Garnish with Lime and Blueberries
For Syrup:
½ cup sugar
½ cup water
1 cup fresh blueberries
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!
1 oz Plymouth Gin
1 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
¾ oz Creme de Violete
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!!
¼ cup Milk Chocolate (for melting and grating)
3 tbsp Sweetened Condensed Milk
¾ cup Half and Half
2½ oz Creme de Cocoa
1½ oz Vodka
Yellow and Red Food Coloring
Top with Seltzer
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)
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!!
The Runaway Anchor has a Patreon!!
Smoked Manhattan w/ Cinnamon
The Manhattan is becoming a standard at the Runaway Anchor these days. The combo of a nice spicy Rye whiskey with vermouth is great, and a good alternative if you default to the Old Fashioned all the time. If the vermouth part freaks you out, consider this cocktail.
All the standard elements are present, but with two enhancements. First a spoonful of cherry syrup. This is the “soup” your Luxardo cherries are swimming around in. Just grab a barspoon of the sauce and add that to your mixture. The other element is the cinnamon. You don’t dump cinnamon syrup in the mix though. Instead, you add a smoked cinnamon by burning a cinnamon stick and smoking the glass with it. Pay close attention to the build to get it just right. We hope you enjoy this twist on the Manhattan! Cheers!
1 cinnamon stick
2 oz Rye Whiskey (or Bourbon if you don’t want the spicy kick)
¾ oz Sweet Vermouth
1 tsp Maraschino Cherry Syrup
3 dashes of Orange Bitters
Garnish: Maraschino Cherries (Luxardo is great!)
Light the Cinnamon Stick and place on a heat-proof surface, quick placing the coupe glass over the stick to trap in the smoke (this takes some practice!)
In a mixing glass, add bourbon, sweet vermouth, bitters and cherry syrup
Add ice and stir for 30 seconds (give that glass time to get really smoky!)
Turn over the coupe glass and strain the cockail into it
Garnish with a couple maraschino cherries and that burnt cinnamon stick
Source: A Grateful Meal Recipe
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!
12 oz Guinness (we divert from Ander’s recipe, calling for Founder’s Porter)
1 oz Jamaican Rum (we use Mount Gay)
1 oz Cognac (or Brandy if you’re in a pinch)
¾ oz Fresh Lime Juice
½ oz Rich Demerara Syrup
Garnish with grated nutmeg
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!