Halloween Spirits
Anyone have scary cocktail ideas?
Posted by: John Chandler on Oct 30, 2009 at 10:00AM
9 Comments
I’m going to a Halloween cocktail party this Saturday and I’ve been racking my cranium for the perfect drink to bring. Needless to say, it’s got to be scary. I seem to remember one year we did a “Witch’s Brew” sort of a thing, that consisted of two bottles of cheap champagne covered with a layer of sherbet, to give it a scummy, swampy look, but I think if we put our heads together, we can do better.
What I’m trying to say is, SEND ME YOUR HALLOWEEN COCKTAIL RECIPES! Right now.
I’ll start.
The Black Widow
Cream de Cassis
Vodka
triple sec
fresh lemon juice
Pomegranate juice
licorice strings
Two parts cassis, three parts vodka, one part triple sec, one part lemon juice, one part pomegranate. “Hey, what’s a part?” I can hear you exclaim. In an average cocktail shaker, figure you’ve got about eight parts. Come on, it’s not an exact science. Nothing’s going to explode. So pour your parts into a shaker with ice, shake for ten seconds, and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with licorice strings to simulate spider legs. Ooooh! Scary! When it comes to Halloween drinks, the fright element usually lies in a properly gruesome garnish. Roughly peeled radishes stuffed with olives make good bloodshot eyeballs, for example.
OK, drinking buddies, let’s hear your ideas.
Tags: Recipes Cocktails Holiday Events
ah-hum! hello… a “Bloody Mary” is not only a great breakfast drink, but a very spooky Halloween drink! ;-)
OK, it’s not really a drink idea per se, but years ago I threw a Halloween party and put dry ice in the punch bowl for that spooky, smoky vibe. Fun!
A few ideas that have come from CoGo customers:
Vodka and Vita Sea (our green drink) – it may remind you of a spooky swamp and look gross, but it actually tastes great!
Try a Bloody Mary made with our Carrot Beet Celery – imagine the color of a toxic dump: swirls of oranges and purples, etc. Mmm.
Our Raspberry Cranberry or Pomegranate Blueberry Cherry mixed with a little something could be interpreted as vampire blood. Be creative!
The first thing that came to mind was an old drink the boys liked to make in college. The ever-famous Brain Tumor. Take a shot glass. Pour in peach schnapps. Pour in enough Bailey’s that it curdles into the shape of a brain. Then drip in just enough grenadine to make it look like the brain is bleeding. Back in the day, the boys loved to see how many college girls they could get to shoot that one down. Or, at least, that was one of them…hiccup…
Ah, John… remember the El Diablo? Lucky for you, you already have one of the key ingredients — Creme de Cassis. Someone left a bottle of Cassis at one of my daiquiri parties once, and I found this recipe in a James Beard cocktail book:
El Diablo: 1 jigger of good tequila, 1/3 jigger of Creme de Cassis, the juice of an entire half of a lime, in a tall glass, topped with a good spicy ginger ale.
I guess they call it a devil drink because of the tequila, and the cassis supposedly makes it red; but frankly I think it looks more pink than red and scary, and since I don’t like a very sweet drink I generally leave out the Cassis anymore. BTW, without the Cassis this drink is, technically, a Mexico Mule. With vodka a Moscow Mule, with gin a Gin Buck.
anything served at Mummie’s. Yes, I checked recently and they’re still in business.
Looks like I need to hot-foot it down to the liquor store for some Creme de Cassis. Thanks for the suggestions one and all!
The JonBenét Ramsay – Ginger ale, Stoli Vanilla, and a crushed cherry.
Pretty grisly and inappropriately funny…perfect for Halloweenies. Devilishly created at the Argus in SF, not too long after she died in 96. What, too soon to make a sick joke cocktail?
Oh Hagula, where did I go wrong?