The Sweetest Runamok Recipes for Valentine’s Day

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Galentine’s, Valentine’s, or treating yourself – share some serious love with these indulgent recipes! BREAKFAST IN BED Stuffed French Toast This is an over-the-top rich and gooey approach to French toast. It is made similar to regular French toast but rather than one slice of bread dipped in custard, two slices are spread with aRead More

Year in Review: Top Ten Best-Sellers of 2024

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We've tallied every last bottle sold on our site – this is what our customers were loving the most this year. Have you tried these fan-favorites yet?

Cocktails and Mocktails for the Holidays

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Featured: Shimmering Champagne Cocktail Champagne is always sparking, but we’ve given it some extra shine with a hit of Sparkle Syrup and a dash of Floral Bitters for a luxurious and festive addition to any party. An orange-based old fashioned cocktail featuring Runamok’s Maple Old Fashioned Cocktail Mixer. The perfect cocktail to up your VitaminRead More

Recipes to Try this December: Holiday Treats

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Featured: Maple Gingerbread Cookies Warm, spiced, and finished with a Festivus Infused Maple icing, these cookies are perfect for sharing – or keeping all to yourself! The rich caramelized notes of maple enhance classic gingerbread spices for an irresistible touch of sweetness that will be the highlight of your holiday baking. Pudding Chômeur is aRead More

Recipes to Try this November: A Very Runamok Thanksgiving

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Vermont Apple Crisp It’s always good to have a few reliable recipes in your pocket. This signature Vermont Apple Crisp is easy and a real crowd-pleaser. All you need is this simple 1:1:1 crumble ratio. The rest is apples any which way you like them tossed in a generous dose of maple syrup. Runamok CinnamonRead More

The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide

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See: Salted Caramel Maple Syrup, WhistlePig Barrel-Aged Maple Syrup, Smoked Old Fashioned Cocktail Mixer See: Beekeeper’s Cut Autumn Blossom Honey, Maple Grenadine, Best Seller’s Large Gift Box See: Small Gift Box, Sparkle Syrup, Festivus Infused Maple Syrup 

Recipes to Try this October: Autumn Harvest

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These are the appetizers, entrees, and desserts we’re making on repeat this season. Packed with fresh seasonal produce like sweet potato, squash, and apples – nothing complements a cozy fall meal quite like real Vermont maple syrup.

Recipes to try this September: Flavors of Fall in Vermont

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Apples, baked treats, and a heavy dose of maple – here are some of our favorite recipes for crisp autumn days.

September is National Honey Month

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HAPPY NATIONAL HONEY MONTH Did you know September is the month when the most honey is harvested in the US? It’s a busy time of year for bees and their keepers with summer wildflowers in peak bloom. Here in Vermont, we have goldenrod, aster, rudbeckia, and more – all the components that pack our Vermont-harvestedRead More

Recipes to try this August: Easy Weeknight Meals

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Make back to school a breeze… fuel up with these simple recipes for quick and delicious dinners any night of the week! BONUS RECIPE:MAKE-AHEAD BAKED OATMEAL ½ cup coconut or vegetable oil⅓ cup maple syrup2 eggs3.5 cups old-fashioned oatmeal1 cup milk (whole or 2%)2 tsp baking powder1 tsp saltBlueberries (or topping of choice!)

Formula + Design: Vanilla Bean Infused Maple Syrup

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Nielsen-Massey® vanillas has been supplying the culinary world with the world’s finest vanilla for well over 100 years. The whole organic vanilla beans we’ve selected have been cultivated and cured on the Bourbon Island of Madagascar. The flavor is full, fragrant, sweet, creamy and mellow with velvety after-tones – a perfect balance with our richRead More

Recipes to Try This July: National Ice Cream Month

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July is Ice Cream Month and we’re showcasing our favorite ice cream sundae combinations Our home state of Vermont has a proud dairy tradition – hello Cabot, Ben & Jerry’s – so we feel it’s our duty to support our fellow agricultural producers by indulging in ice cream all month long… Plus, ice cream is simplyRead More

Recipes to Try This June: Cakes Galore

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Salted Caramel Hazelnut Cheesecake Classic cheesecake with a hazelnut crust, topped with Salted Caramel Maple Syrup. Creamy, slightly sour, and a little sweet – one might call this a “basic cheesecake”, but really there is no such thing. MORE: CAKES GALORE

Research + Development: Bringing a New Flavor to Life

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With just two pure, natural ingredients going into our new Vanilla Bean Infused Maple Syrup, you may expect there’s nothing to it… but a lot goes on behind the scenes when creating an infused maple syrup formula. Read on to find out! Ingredient Format We infused our maple syrup with several different forms of vanilla, infusing atRead More

Grenadine Cocktail Recipes for Summer

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Great Flavor. Natural Ingredients. Better-for-you Cocktail Mixer.

In Partnership with: Reduce Your Lawn Day

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The mission of Reduce Your Lawn Day is simple:to educate, inspire, and convert the underutilized spaces in our yards for a better world. Reducing your lawn can help rebuild habitat, right in your own yard. Read Four Reasons to Reduce Your Lawn and sign the pledge here: Sign the pledge by May 27th and you’llRead More

96 Steps: What Goes Into Creating a New Flavor?

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“What the heck takes so long?!” Since you asked, it takes approximately 96 steps to bring a product from ideation to saturating your pancakes. There’s naming convention, packaging selection, ingredient sourcing, spec sheet builds, material onboarding… plus 91 other tasks to check off the list.  Since winning this year’s New Flavor Contest, our flavor alchemists haveRead More

By the Numbers: 2024 Sugaring Season

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How do we love maple? Let us count the ways.

5 Maple Recipes for Mother’s Day

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Treat the moms and mother figures in your life to something sweet — from breakfast in bed to decadent desserts that will knock their socks off. We have just the right recipes to wow this Mother’s Day.  

Behind the Bar: The Four Aromatic Golden Ratios of Cocktails

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Balance is the most important factor in creating an excellent aromatic cocktail. Balance in cocktails started very basically with the Old Fashioned and has evolved through time to become quite complicated indeed. The Old Fashioned was originally just called “the cocktail” as it was the first time in recorded bar recipes where three ingredients wereRead More

Behind the Bar: The Golden Ratio 101

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Nature’s Golden Ratio Cocktails are maple trees… hear me out… The perfect cocktail is sculpted with the perfect golden ratio, and perfect golden ratios are found in the branches of maple trees. Nature’s golden ratio is a proportion (approximately 1:1.61) that occurs frequently on earth and is used all over human endeavors such as art,Read More

Behind the Bar: The Golden Ratio of Sour Cocktails

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Sour Cocktails: It’s All About Balance What sets a really wonderful cocktail apart from a really average cocktail is balance. A cocktail must be boozy, but not overpowering, sweet, but not too sickly, and savory, but not too tart. The easiest way to create a balanced cocktail at home is to follow and variate offRead More

11 Great Summer Cocktail Recipes

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Not to jinx the trend, but things are looking up here in these United States. We are all busting out of our pandemic cocoons and letting ourselves believe in a world of hugging someone outside our household. And at this point, just shaking a hand feels good. With cautious optimism, we are planning social gatheringsRead More

5 Ways You Never Thought of Using Maple Syrup

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Everyone knows maple syrup is for breakfast: pancakes, waffles, french toast and bacon. But here in Vermont, we put it on everything. Think Frank’s Red Hot, but sweeter. At Runamok, we have elevated the possibilities of maple syrup and we love to share its various applications through our products and recipes. Some of the bestRead More

Our Favorite Uses for Makrut Lime-Leaf Maple

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Oh, lovely, lovely Makrut Lime-Leaf Infused. If we were to point to one product that cemented what we are all about, it would be this syrup. Back in our earliest days, we were trying herbs and spices to infuse in maple and were reaching for very traditional combinations like cinnamon and vanilla. We got excellentRead More

Our Favorite Uses for Ginger Infused Maple Syrup

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Ginger Infused Maple Syrup is one of our original syrups and is a customer favorite for good reason. It has many uses in both sweet and savory dishes, and is also one of the best maple syrups for cocktails. We use fresh, organic ginger from Peru. To make the infusion, we pulverize it, often hundredsRead More

Maple Syrup 101: The Sap Boil

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Once the sap is in the sugar house it is time to boil it to syrup.  The first step is to concentrate it. The sap is run through a reverse osmosis machine which removes 90% of the water. A reverse osmosis machine (RO) works by using pressure to push the sap through a semi permeableRead More

10+ Ways to Use Our Cardamom Infused Maple Syrup

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If we were to choose the infused syrup that showed the most versatility, it would have to be the Cardamom Infused Maple. Desserts, pancakes, stir frys, roasted vegetables, cocktails – this syrup is good for all. Though hard to describe the flavor, when mixed with maple syrup, cardamom tastes of rich oak, with notes ofRead More

Runamok Holiday Gift Guide

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The holidays are nearly upon us and boy could we use some fa-la-la-la-las.  There is already plenty of stress in the world, so don’t let your holiday gift list add to it. Some people are easy to buy for, but others are annual head-scratchers. Below is a helpful list of ideas for affordable and tastyRead More

Our Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

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The Covid crisis has been in action for long enough that we now have some perspective on how it has changed us and our business. It is important to take a minute and reflect on a most extraordinary six months and ask the question; what the hell just happened?  So here is a short summaryRead More