Melon Pop Cocktails: Part 1

Do you like anime? Do you like drinking? Of course you do, because they go great together! Melon Pop will be putting out a series of original anime inspired cocktails with the corresponding recipes so you can recreate your favorites. These drinks are great for anything from con parties to hanging out with your friends binge watching your favorite series. The only way to know which drink is your favorite is to mix and try them all!

While we here at Melon Pop encourage you to partake in a finely crafted adult beverage, we only do so if you are of the legal drinking age. If not, then disregard the following until your 21st birthday where you can join the rest of your drunken otaku brethren.

The Melon Pop ingredients:

1.5 oz Bacardi Dragon Berry Rum

1.5 oz Bacardi Grand melon Rum

A splash of Midori Melon Liqueur

The juice of 1 lemon wedge

Fill with Ramune Melon Soda

Garnish with a honeydew melon ball and a lemon twist

Patterned after the infamous wanted woman aboard the Bebop this cocktail is sexy and stylish, but drink with caution or you may wake up missing your wallet. "Easy come, easy go."

The Faye Valentine ingredients:

1.5 oz Vanilla Vodka

1.5 oz Malibu Coconut Rum

1.5 oz Pineapple Juice

1.5 oz Passion Fruit Juice

Garnish with a cherry

Shake and strain into a purple sugar rimmed martini glass

 This drink may seem like the strong silent type, but this little twist on a classic cocktail shows that even the strong silent type has a fun side.

The Jet Black Ingredients:

2 oz Kentucky Bourbon

.5 oz Grenadine

3 dashes of Orange Bitters

Fill with Cola

Garnish with two cherries

 This drink has all the eccentricities of the free spirited character it's patterned after. Once Ed hits legal drinking age I'm sure this would be one of her favorite drinks aboard the Bebop.

The Ed Ingredients:

1.5 oz 3 Olives Loops Fruit Loops Flavored Vodka

Fill with Mountain Dew

Garnish with 3 lemons, 3 limes, and a skewer with a lemon, cherry, and lime

Serve in a Cherry Pop Rocks rimmed low ball glass

The Spike ingredients:

.75 oz Fresh Lime Juice

2 oz Tequila

.75 oz Triple Sec

Fill with equal parts Lemon Lime Soda and Club Soda

Garnish with three lime slices and a lime twist