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Lumberjack in Love (Anders Erickson Original)

The Story

No seasonal menu would be complete without our “Runaway Godfather”, Anders Erickson. And, as per our tradition of this past year, we are featuring an Original Creation from his YouTube Channel. This one is a BEER COCKTAIL, and even you don’t love beer, you’re gonna want to check this one out.

The original recipe calls for roughly 2 oz of liquor and 4 oz of beer. But I found that I liked more of an equal parts approach (2 oz liquor to 2 oz beer), as I am not the beer lover I once was these days. I recommend starting with my 1:1 approach and add more beer until you are satisfied! This drink is pretty spectacular at whatever level of beer you land upon, so find some sugar free tart cherry juice (not hard to find) and get to mixin’!!

Cheers!

The Recipe

1 oz Rye Whiskey

0.5 oz All Spice Dram

2 oz Tart Cherry Juice (no sugar added)

0.25 oz Simple Syrup

0.25 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

Oktoberfest Beer (4 oz called for in original recipe)

The Build

Add all ingredients (except beer) to a Cocktail Shaker

Add ice and shake for 10-15 seconds

Double strain into a chilled Highball glass

Add equal parts Oktoberfest beer (4oz called for in OG recipe)

Source: Anders Erickson Original Cocktail Recipe

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Ross Collins

The Story

Just because this is a fall menu item doesn’t mean we can’t have a little summer in our glass! This is a rare highball cocktail for the Runaway Anchor and does another unique thing; it has us shaking fruit slices in the shaker!

No need to muddle the orange slices; just make sure you shake really hard for 15 seconds or until you feel the ice is sufficiently broken up (you get a feel for it over time).

Top this with some form of soda water (Topo Chico is a nice option), and enjoy a little drop of sunshine before the colder months of the year are upon us!

Cheers!

The Recipe

2 oz Rye Whiskey

0.75 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

0.75 oz Simple Syrup

3 dashes Angostura Bitters

Sparkling Water (top it off)

3 Orange Slices (two for shaker, one for garnish)

Garnish: Orange Slice and Cherry

The Build

Add all ingredients to a Cocktail Shaker

Add ice and shake for 15 seconds

Strain over cubed ice into a Highball glass

Top off with Sparkling Water

Garnish with Orange slice and cocktail cherry

Source: Regarding Cocktails by Sasha Petraske

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Midnight Stinger

The Story

This cocktail, coming from the great cocktail book by Steve the Bartender, has been a real hit as we wrap up the summer and get into fall. During our taste testing session this one was my personal favorite of the bunch (and that’s saying something, as will soon be seen when the Fall Menu 2024 launches Sept 1st).

This cocktail has the base of a whiskey sour, but it adds Fernet Branca and changes the whole game. This is an apertive that you will find sitting alongside things like Vermouth, Campari, and Amaro. Fernet can be sipped straight or mixed. We hope this cocktail serves as an introduction to a new bottle that might be less familiar.

Cheers!

The Recipe

1oz Bourbon

1oz Fernet Branca

0.75oz Fresh Lemon Juice

0.75oz Simple Syrup

Garnish: Mint

The Build

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker

Add ice and shake for 10-15 seconds

Double strain into a lowball filled with cubed or pebble ice (if you have it)

Source: Steve the Bartender Midnight Stinger Recipe

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Tale of Two Cars: Cable Car

The Story

One of the great things about cocktails is that once you know a base recipe, you can always modify the elements are create something entirely new! That is definitely true for this riff on the Sidecar. The Cable Car swaps out the Cognac with Spiced Rum, adding a bold new flavor to the mix. For our recipe we chose to use Cointreau for our “orange liqueur”, but you can use Dry Curacao if you prefer (which was our choice for the Sidecar recipe).

This recipe comes from the amazing cocktail book by Steve the Bartender, and it’s definitely worth picking up a copy HERE.

Cheers!

The Recipe

This recipe is doubled for coupe

3.0oz Spiced Rum

1.5oz Orange Curacao (Cointreau)

2.0oz Lemon Juice

1.0oz Simple Syrup

The Build

All all ingredients to a cocktail shaker

Add ice and shake for 10-15 seconds

Double strain into a chilled Coupe glass (no ice)

Source: Steve the Bartender Cable Car Recipe

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The Jungle Bird

The Story

Campari is a challenging bottle. It’s a divisive bottle. There are those who love it and those who hate it. It is the mother of all Aperitifs, and you will be hard-pressed to find a bottle featuring such bitterness. But in a well-built cocktail, bitter does have a place. Perhaps you’ve poked at the genre with Aperol? Or at the very least mixed your martini with a dry vermouth. That’s a start.

We went looking for an “entry level” cocktail for Campari, and discovered that you can buy a smaller bottle (which isn’t the smart choice if you’re planning to mix with it often, but not a bad idea if you might get 2 ounces out and dump the rest). The Jungle Bird is an approachable campari cocktail. Based in Rum and dominated not by the bitterness, but rather by the Pineapple. The recipe we used from Steve the Bartender calls for 1.5 oz of Pineapple Juice, but we found that to be too fruit forward, so we dropped it back to 1.0 oz. We also made a version pulling back on the Campari to 0.5oz, but again that took the drink out of balance and it was all about Pineapple again.

The recipe below is a good balance of the citrus, the sweet and the bitter. The rum didn’t seem to matter. We used Appleton 12 year, but probably most aged rums will work. Just don’t get creative with Spiced Rum or similar, as the balance is delicate with this “bird”.

Properly built, the citrus will hit first and a slight bitterness will be the finish. If you are Campari curious, this might be the cocktail for you!

Cheers!

The Recipe

1.5oz Aged Rum

0.75oz Campari

1.0oz Pineapple Juice (can is okay)

0.5oz Fresh Lime Juice

0.5oz Simple Syrup

The Build

Chill a Lowball Glass

Add all ingredients to a shaking tin

Add ice and shake for 10-12 seconds

Fill prepared glass with fresh ice cubes

Strain cocktail into glass

Garnish with an orange slice and cherry

Source: Steve the Bartender (slightly modified)